[TriLUG] Advice on cheap hosting

[Warren Myers]

As to mailing lists, Google Groups works really well - you can set it up to
be private, public, or semi-public. Some buddies of mine use it to host a
private mailing list, ie only members have access.

WMM

On 4/16/07, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 16 April 2007 09:38, 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
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> Troubleshooters.Com has been on Bluehost (http://www.bluehost.com) for
> about 2
> years. I think I pay about $100 per year, or something like that.
> Troubleshooters.Com uses over 10GB bandwidth per month (and we don't have
> music or videos :-), and according to my stats I'm currently using 1GB of
> disk space (though I suspect most of that is email spam filters I forgot
> to
> dump -- Troubleshooters.Com itself is only 300MB.
>
> You get 2500 email accounts (yeah, I'm gonna use that many :-) and 50
> MySQL
> databases and 50 Postgres databases. The OS is Linux with Apache. You can
> get
> to the command prompt via ssh.
>
> The one problem with Bluehost is their mailing lists ABSOLUTELY SUCK. It
> takes
> between 20 minutes and an hour between the time you post a message and the
> time your fellow list members receive it. Doesn't make for a lively
> conversation. I tried to get them to fix this, and they told me they do it
> to
> save processor time by batching the emails, and they wouldn't change it.
> This
> was about a year or two ago, so it's possible they've improved it (I moved
> all my mailing lists to other peoples' servers).
>
> Anyway, if you can get by with mailing lists elsewhere, Bluehost is
> spectacular.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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