[TriLUG] Advice on cheap hosting

[Jos Purvis]

Just to add my $0.02, we've had wonderful experiences with A2 Hosting  
(www.a2hosting.com). Their prices are excellent, and the services are  
fast and reliable, particularly for the price.

We have been hosting our personal domains through Pair for quite some  
time; they haven't been bad, but have been kind of poky in terms of  
transfer speeds, and their prices aren't nearly as competitive as  
they once were.

	--Jos

On 16 Apr, 2007, at 13:04, Carl Crider wrote:

> 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
>>
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