[TriLUG] Cheap Local LAMP hosting?

[Brian Cottingham]

Perhaps you're confusing Rackspace Cloud Servers with RS Cloud Sites, 
but my Cloud Server has both browser-based shell and SSH access.

Re: bandwidth price, how cost effective a VPS from Rackspace is compared 
to Linode/Slicehost will definitely depend on how much bandwidth you 
regularly use. I made the recommendation on the assumption that a small, 
local charity running static pages probably does not have high traffic 
or offer large downloads.

-Brian


On 10/11/2009 04:59 PM, Michael Wright wrote:
> With Rackspace keep in mind that you don't get shell access 
> (web-only), and they ding you for bandwidth in and out, and at 
> different rates at that. If the lack of shell access doesn't bother 
> you, and the bandwidth costs don't exceed the price difference (and I 
> don't imagine they would), they're definitely a host to consider.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Michael Wright
>
> On Oct 11, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Brian Cottingham wrote:
>
>> A VPS definitely sounds like the way to go. I've heard good things 
>> from Linode customers, but for price, Rackspace Cloud Servers[1] are 
>> hard to beat. Starting at $11/mo + $0.22/GB bandwidth, all of the 
>> major server distros, and access to many of Rackspace's support 
>> resources.
>>
>> [1] http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>>
>> On 10/11/2009 04:15 PM, Michael Kimsal wrote:
>>> What's "cheap" to you?  I'd recommend a low-end VPS from 
>>> slicehost.com or
>>> linode.com and then you're in complete control.  Throw virtualmin on 
>>> there
>>> and you're pretty good to go.  $20/month.  I'm not sure you'll get 
>>> *much*
>>> cheaper than that while still having the ability to install your own 
>>> CPAN
>>> and custom stuff.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Paul 
>>> Bennett<paul.w.bennett at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi, all,
>>>>
>>>> I work with a small local charity (a crisis hotline), and we're 
>>>> looking to
>>>> upgrade the current static-HTML site to something hosted on a 
>>>> platform with
>>>> Linux, Apache (mod_perl and mod_auth_mysql), MySQL, and Perl. 
>>>> Freedom in
>>>> installing my own CPAN and custom modules is required.
>>>>
>>>> Since it's a (very) small nonprofit, with a (very) small operating 
>>>> budget,
>>>> price is very much an issue. I don't trust my Google-fu enough to find
>>>> non-scam cheap hosting that's going to offer enough security and
>>>> reliability. I know it's kind of the Holy Grail of hosting, but has 
>>>> anyone
>>>> got any stories they'd like to share about particular hosting 
>>>> suppliers?
>>>> Cheap is king, but not at the expense of breaching the 
>>>> confidentiality or
>>>> anonymity of callers or volunteers. Local would be nice (since 
>>>> we're a local
>>>> community service), but is not a requirement.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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