[olug] Suggestions for web/e-mail/shell access hosting...

[Wesley Ferrel]

I realize I'm 4 days out on this response, but I've gotta give a nod to 
linode.com.  Their offering is great.  It's do-it-yourself, so it can be 
more involved than just getting a hosted service from a canned service 
provider.  However, their service offerings keep growing, and the value 
you get for your $ is great, and constantly increasing.  Plus it gives 
you the flexibility to add your own services as your needs change and 
grow.  They've got servers in three data centers (West Coast, Central 
and East Coast) so you have your choice of locations. 

As an example of their increased value, when I started, I was paying 
$19.95 for their lowest end offering, the linode64. 
It offered:
64meg of ram,
~2 gig of disk
~25GB/Month transfer
(it was a while ago, and so the last two numbers may be off a bit). 

Today, their 19.95 offering gets you:
256 meg of ram
8 gig of disk
100GB/Month transfer

As well, if you choose to pay annually you get +50% disk space on all 
their plans.

Ok, sorry, this is starting to sound like a commercial, and that wasn't 
my intent, but I am VERY happy with their offerings and service.

</linodegroupiemode>

    Wes

Daniel Pfile wrote:
> Here are the service's I've used either personally or for work  
> recently. I don't use any fancy pants server control panels, just the  
> vender panel to manage the physical/logical aspects of the server  
> like booting, console, drives (for uml server), external firewall, etc.
>
> www.linode.com - User Mode Linux servers. I use it for my personal  
> server. The service is great, the control panel is great. You get a  
> serial console, your choice of distro, only one at a time, but you  
> can have as many disk images as will fit in your allocation. You're  
> only limited to one of the kernel choices they have. Other than that,  
> the sky's the limit. I've been with them for years and have no  
> intention of leaving.
>
> www.dreamhost.com - Shared hosting. I tried them last year. Pretty  
> good standard shell support, etc, but I had lots of problems with  
> their mail servers being horribly slow and unreliable. I've heard  
> lots of people say their web hosting side can be rather slow at times  
> too, but I didn't have a problem with them there. I guess they've  
> fixed most of their problems, so if you're looking for shared  
> hosting, consider these guys.
>
> www.1and1.com - Dedicated servers. Their datacenter in germany is  
> obviously kind of slow from here, but if you get one in their new  
> Kansas data center, they're really fast. OK price, and you get a  
> serial console (no bios access through it). I've done in place  
> reinstalls from fedora to centos with some chroot magic over the  
> console. They can netboot a rescue debian image too, which is pretty  
> handy. Their 'managed' firewall can be kind of strange, but overall,  
> not a bad dedicated server.
>
> www.rackspace.com - Dedicated servers. You pay through the nose, but  
> they'll add load balancers, firewalls, managed backup, etc. Quick  
> response, reliable, etc. If you've got the cash, they're great.
>
> www.serverpronto.com - Dedicated servers. Dirt cheap, bad service,  
> network isn't very reliable. The only thing really going for them is  
> they're dirt cheap.
>
> -- Daniel
>
> On Mar 17, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Daniel Linder wrote:
>
>   
>> My current location for my Linder.org server is going away.  I'm  
>> thinking
>> about switching to a hosting provider that I can park the domain  
>> name at
>> and host some web pages (family stuff).  I'd really like a small  
>> hosted
>> server that I could get shell access to via ssh, and I could keep  
>> up the
>> web and e-mail stuff myself.
>>
>> I've checked into "1and1.com", a friend said that "Jelecos.com" was  
>> good
>> to his customers, and a family member recommended "ipowerweb.com".   
>> 1and1
>> is nice because it has a $10/month solution with e-mail, ssh, and web
>> hosting.
>>
>> I had thought of moving it back to my house and upgrade my Cox  
>> cable modem
>> service to the "business" class, but the cost is rather prohibitive  
>> when
>> all I need is a static IP address and in-bound e-mail connections.
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> I know it's been asked here before, but I can't find it in the  
>> archives...
>>
>>
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