[olug] Basic cheap local hosting?

[Christopher R. White]

I've had good luck with DotEasy, I dunno what all services they do / don't
have but I got everything I needed from them to setup a joomla site. . .
On Dec 4, 2011 4:13 PM, "T. J. Brumfield" <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> I should add ideally I'm looking for a host that will allow:
>
> either an opcode cache or memcache
> HTML Tidy
> mime type detection
> mod_deflate
> mod_env
> mod_expires
> mod_headers
> mod_mime
> mod_rewrite
> mod_sentenvif
>
> and hopefully
> mod_pagespeed
>
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 4:09 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I need to host a low bandwidth Wordpress site. Really, I don't need
> > anything more than a shared hosting account. But everyone I've tried
> > doesn't allow me to do page caching, so performance is pretty poor.
> >
> > I actually just signed up for a hosting service the other day because the
> > sales staff assured me without a doubt that I could do opcode caching. I
> > migrated my domain and site over, only to find it isn't enabled on the
> > server. In fact, pretty much any Apache module I need for that caching
> > plugin isn't installed and they're not willing to install any of them,
> > including some really basic/common modules like mod_deflate and
> > mod_rewrite. The technical staff state that no one should have reason to
> > use those.
> >
> > After migrating this site five times already from one terrible host to
> > another, I'm curious if anyone on this list can recommend a good, cheap
> > service, or if they one of their own?
> >
> > I could rent a VPS through Linode, except that seems overkill for a
> single
> > Wordpress install that will get minimal traffic.
> >
> > -- T. J. Brumfield
> > "I'm questioning my education
> > Rewind and what does it show?
> > Could be, the truth it becomes you
> > I'm a seed, wondering why it grows"
> > -- Pearl Jam, Education
> >
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