[olug] Basic cheap local hosting?

Mon Dec 5 18:17:49 UTC 2011

Well, currently I am using namecheap.com for my shared hosting.  They 
are fairly inexpensive, and quite responsive with their tech support.  I 
recently had an issue where my account got suspended because of a 
mis-match of cached credentials.  I went into their online support chat, 
and had a tech that unlocked the account within 5 minutes.  This isn't 
an exceptional story with them, rather it's quite the norm for their 
support...almost every issue I've had they have been able to resolve 
very quickly.  They even helped with converting a database dump when I 
migrated to them from another hosting service - and that was done within 
an hour (personally, I would have been happy if they had done it within 
a business day - so they exceeded my expectations).

So, they are another option to check out...

George

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 11:32:37 -0600, T. J. Brumfield wrote:
> I have the 15 meg down residential package, and the equivalent 
> business
> hosting is $150 a month with a two year contract. It would be 
> identical to
> my $50 plan, except a static IP address and they're not blocking 
> ports.
>
> Neither really costs Cox anything more to provide. But they know they 
> can
> gouge businesses, and they have no choice but to pay.
>
> I'm not going to make my url and web server use another port, so 
> unless I
> could somehow transparently forward port 80, I think the best 
> solution is
> to bite the bullet and sign up for a VPS. Patrick Swartz has 
> contacted me
> off list, and he is offering a very attractive VPS offering.
>
> The web page in question is just a guild webpage for Star Wars: The 
> Old
> Republic. My wife has already chastised me that we're paying two 
> monthly
> subscriptions (including the initial retail purchase of the game). We 
> don't
> normally pay MMOs. Adding a monthly VPS cost as well is surely going 
> to be
> a point of contention because it is for a game, even though the cost 
> really
> isn't all that much.
>
> I will also look at Hostgator since it has been suggested. The three 
> shared
> hosts I haven't used in recent years but seem to get suggested 
> frequently
> are Dreamhost, Bluehost and Hostgator.
>
> I've just had such bad experiences with shared hosts recently that 
> I'm
> reticent to try more. 1and1 is still billing me for a hosting package 
> I
> cancelled over a year ago and I'm really not happy with them in 
> particular.
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:18 AM, SndChaser 
> <sndchaser at cerebralrift.org>wrote:
>
>> 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
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