Hosting options

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 14:10:01 EDT 2005


I use a VPS (http://tektonic.net) for my hosting right now. It's a bit
cheaper than a dedicated box, but has most of the same benefits.

WMM

On 9/28/05, Rob McCauley <robmccau at radonc.duke.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I'd like to have a box of my very own out on the net somewhere. I have
> some specific services I want on it (www, ssh), but generally speaking, I
> want to have free rein to make it do whatever I'd like. I think that
> gets me to shared hosting options or colo. I haven't ruled out business
> class cable entirely, but I'm not entirely happy with residential service,
> so I'm a bit prejudiced against it.
>
> I'm looking for recommendations.
>
> Must be linux or openbsd.
>
> I'd rather it be geographically nearby. Not critical, but nice.
>
> Having root access is firm requirement.
>
> Bandwidth is an unknown. Some of the things I'd like to do may use a lot,
> so affordable growth options are good.
>
> Inexpensive is, of course, good.
>
> If you have personal experience of such a provider, work for one, know of
> one, etc, please let me know. I know they're out there, but in such
> quantity that sifting through them without prior knowledge of who is good
> and who is not is painful.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rob
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