[wplug] Affordable Lnux based web hosting?

[Andrew Fisk]

Not sure what you want to do with your site, but I am not sure that I  
would worry too much about your DSL being out -- if your ISP is  
Verizon they block port 80 incoming so web hosting as a PITA.  You can  
of course pay them an extra $20/month for a static IP and all the  
blocks and concerns about bandwidth go away.

I'm not sure if it makes sense financially, but hosting your own stuff  
does give you complete control of what you install etc.  Take a look  
at what you are going to be hosting -- one of the things that folks  
don't realize that when you are hosting, most of your data is going  
out rather than coming in so you may not see too much of a performance  
hit.  I know we ran an old PowerMac 7300 for my son's boy scout troop  
for years with no impact of usage at home -- and we had 6 active users  
on the network.

All that said -- if you don't you really need linux hosting (ie you  
have a Linux only app???).  pair networks right here in Pittsburgh are  
a good outfit with some great tech support and plans starting at  
$6.00 / month.



Andy
Spitfire Computer Services
Suite 19
2301 Duss Ave.
Ambridge, PA 15003
Phone (412) 749-0162
fax: (602) 476-8868
andy at spitcomp.com
www.spitcomp.com



On Jul 31, 2008, at Thursday, July 31, 200811:50 AM, Tim Lesher wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:27, Zach Uram <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I may
> just end up running my own webserver but first I wanted to see what is
> out there in terms of cheap hosting.
>
>
> I use Joyent (formerly TextDrive) myself.  It's shared hosting,  
> FreeBSD or OpenSolaris-based, and starts at $15/mo. No real  
> complaints.
>
> I've also had Westhost recommended by people whose opinions I  
> respect.  They have a pseudo-vps implementation that starts very,  
> very cheaply ($7/mo).
>
>
> -- 
> Tim Lesher <tlesher at gmail.com>
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