[TriLUG] OT: Webhosting Recommendations

H. Wade Minter minter at lunenburg.org
Wed Aug 14 18:27:53 EDT 2002


On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 04:34  PM, Scott Stancil wrote:

> I recently selected Webaxxs as a hosting solution for a couple 
> commercial and personal websites I own.  The problem is they had 
> problems with the order process the night I ordered and emailed my 
> Yahoo account all of my personal information, including full credit 
> card information.  After reading the headers, one of the salesman 
> confirmed that they email credit cards internally, unencrypted.  
> Needless to say, that makes me nervous.  (If you don't recognize 
> Webaxxs, they are essentially OLM.net as seen on TechTV. Webaxxs seems 
> to be OLM's unadvertised, UNIX/Linux-oriented sister company.)
>
> *I have 3-4 domains, I really need to host one domain while parking the 
> orthers and redirecting in.
> *300-400MB of space
> *Email support for the primary domain with aliases and POP3
> *Mailing list support would be great
> *CGI support
> *MySQL or PostgreSQL support would be great as well
> *Have a deadline of September 1

I'll have to plug the group I admin for again - SkilTech 
(http://www.skiltech.com/)

Run on FreeBSD, with Apache 1.3/PHP4/MySQL/Postgres/Miva ecommerce 
engine/POP3/IMAP/Mailman.  Reasonable prices, great service, and you're 
on the email list with the sysadmin.  ;-)

Check 'em out!

--Wade




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