[TriLUG] Good Hosting company?

[Matthew West]

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I've always had great success with 1and1 (http://1and1.com/). They offer
different types of hosting at cheap prices.

Matt West

Nolan Caudill wrote:
> 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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>>
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