[olug] Basic cheap local hosting?

[SndChaser]

Actually, right now Cox's two year Business Internet Starter contracts 
are going for $75.05/mo.  That really isn't far off what I'm already 
paying, but it only has 1 IP address and is 5Meg down, 1Meg up -- my 
current seems to get 7Meg down, 1Meg up.  If I dumped the cable TV, this 
would end up being cheaper.

George

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 02:24:39 -0600, Rob Townley wrote:
> Maybe less if sign a 5 year contract.
>
> On Sunday, December 4, 2011, Jason N <dashrender at cox.net> wrote:
>> I'm not sure cox can force you into anything, but I do know they 
>> block
> inbound port 80 and port 25.
>>
>> A business line if you want to host from home costs about $89/mnth.  
>> If
> you already pay for a the highest level of service with Cox this 
> won't be
> much more than you are already paying.
>>
>>
>> ---- "T. J. Brumfield" <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was under the impression that Cox won't offer a static IP with 
>> home
>> internet, so you have to a pay a fortune for business internet.
>>
>> I have considered looking a dynamic DNS service, but I heard that 
>> Cox will
>> force you into business internet if they detect your hosting a web 
>> server.
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I went for years from one hosting company to another, and in each 
>>> case,
> at
>>> some point tech support failed me mightily.  At the last company, 
>>> after a
>>> seventeen-day server outage because I couldn't get past tier one 
>>> tech
>>> support, I resolved to host my own site.  Just about any old 
>>> computer
> will
>>> run Linux well enough for a low-bandwidth site, and now when I need 
>>> to
>>> contact tech support, the guy may be a jerk but he takes my 
>>> problems
>>> seriously.  It's been five years now and I haven't looked back.
>>>
>>> I assume you've got DSL or cable at home; how much to add a static 
>>> IP
>>> address?  If static is too pricy, you can always get dynamic DNS 
>>> thru
>>> www.dyn.com or elsewhere.
>>>
>>>  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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