[TriLUG] Advice on cheap hosting

[Carl Crider]

 Dreamhost has served us well at TROSA. Non-profits are hosted for free.
Our site was down twice in the last year, and up within an hour, just to
be fair. Shell access is built in.


-Carl

www.trosainc.org



On 4/16/07, John Wheeler <jwheeler at etherealfringe.com> wrote:
>
> 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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