[TriLUG] Good Hosting company?

[Nolan Caudill]

In a word (well two words, I guess): data persistence.

If/when your Xen image fails or gets restarted, you lose all data you've
accumulated on its 'disk' that hasn't been backed up to an external storage,
such as Amazon's S3 or an actual disk server somewhere. Until someone finds
a way to have the EC2 disk writes automatically replicated, EC2 will not
fill the simple hosting niche. There have been a few ways documented around
the web to create this automatic replication, but none of them are
straight-forward or simple.

EC2 is great for throwing more servers at computation or bandwidth problem,
but for the *sole* solution of hosting and serving data, it has its
pitfalls.

Nolan Caudill

On 9/28/07, stan briggs <stanbriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> all,
>
> is there a reason that amazon's elastic compute cloud (amazon ec2) is not
> mentioned in these conversations? this stuff is cool and not expensive and
> you don't have to worry about fixing hardware and it only runs when you
> want
> it to and you only pay for what you use ...
>
> anyway, check it out:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011
>
> there is a whole host (no pun intended) of services.
>
> stan
>
> On 9/28/07, Jeffery Painter <jeff_painter at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have used openhosting.com for almost 3 years now. Great support and it
> > is run by a bunch of apache guys who really know their stuff. I believe
> > they are moving over to CentOS but my setup is still Fedora based.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Jeffery Painter
> >
> > Knowledge Engineer
> > Semantic Technologies Group
> > Statistical and Quantitative Sciences
> > GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > > Hi all, I know this question has been posed at least once before on
> > trilug
> > > but I tried to search around for the mailing list archives and
> couldn't
> > > find it :(
> > >
> > > What web hosting company can you recommend? I have been using
> dreamhost
> > > for 2 years and their service has been poor. I wish to switch my
> domains
> > > to a different company.
> > >
> > > My requirements are that they must support ftp, http, and PHP/MySQL
> > based
> > > stuff like wordpress & gallery. Multiple ftp accounts would be nice,
> > where
> > > some users might be able to read-only, but a super-user could upload.
> > >
> > > wab
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