[TriLUG] Advice on cheap hosting

[John Wheeler]

Dreamhost is very cheap for the options you get.
They are out of CA. The biggest concern is their uptime  record.

Over the past year there have been a couple of severe outages that  
have taken too long to resolve. They are, however, doing better. If  
you don't need to promise 99% uptime and can handle $7 or $8 a month  
then you can get a very decent shared hosting solution.

Including shell access, multiple shell/ftp users, quick DB setup, PHP/ 
Perl/Ruby, automatic installs of popular OSS solutions.
They run Debian.

-John

On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:46 AM, jason at monsterjam.org wrote:

> dunno if this is cheap vs. anyone else, but
> http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html
> is very nice, ive set up someones server through them and they do  
> provide shell access.
>
> Jason
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:38:27AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
>> Greetings-
>>
>> A political group for which I volunteer is looking for a new web  
>> hosting
>> company. It's a small website, mostly static, and without need of  
>> database
>> or even probably cgi services. However, I've had enough trouble with
>> companies that require me to go through a web interface that having a
>> shell is a must.  Here's what I'm looking for:
>>
>> - Cheap (we have no budget; I pay for the hosting out of my pocket)
>> - Linux-based, preferably debian but I don't really care which distro
>> - Shell access
>> - Must allow postings of political claims as the group's position,  
>> and
>> therefore not be connected with UNC or any other governmental entity
>> (i.e., ibiblio is not an option for this site)
>> - Since it's a NC group, would prefer that the hosting company be  
>> in NC.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice-
>> Andy
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> -
>> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http:// 
>> perrin.socsci.unc.edu
>> Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
>> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210  
>> USA
>> New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl
>>
>>
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