Hivemind: hosting

[prog]

Jmac.org web & email has gotta move again, and soon. daerr has been my latest kind host, but his machine is falling apart and he's planning on bailing soon. I figure that, after more than eight years of hoboing this domain around, it's finally time to move it off of FriendlyNet and into the realm of paid-for hosting

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[radtea]

I use Tera-Byte for my business hosting:

http://web.tera-byte.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=services.shared

Their 4U shared account is your basic Linux shared hosting thingy with all the usual stuff, although IIRC you have to ask 'em nicely to turn on MySQL. Cost is 99 USD per year.

I've been with them one way or another for four years, and had about one hour unscheduled downtime, a few hours of scheduled downtime, no other major issues, and very good responsiveness from their tech support.

[daerr]

They're (usually) very friendly and responsive but they are not very helpful with hosted applications... that is, they support FastCGI but have undocumented memory limits. They're undocumented and they won't discuss them but they will 'kill -9' your processes if they feel you've exceeded them. What's more, they're not fixed but dynamic in some way, so what's ok one day isn't the next.

[kyroraz]

Dreamhost has been generally good for me, but I actually am going to be getting a futurehost (http://www.futurehost.biz/vps.htm) account so that I can run some higher end applications such as Firebrat and other things that I know will eventually kill Dreamhost. Dreamhost is kinda picky on the ram thing -- it's the only negative thing I've heard about them and daerr is the only one that has had the conflict with them on that level, I've not had processes killed yet. So, right now, from a hosting perspective, big stuff on futurehost, small stuff on dreamhost.

[daerr]

And yes, I have a futurehost account too. Thus far it's seemed pretty nice to me. I haven't tried it fully loaded yet though. I'll have more to say in the next weeks and months.

[jtroutman]

I have a rimuhosting.net VPS in speed of light land. It works fine. I am likely to transition my own personal stuff to a VPS "eventually".

my personal stuff is still running on an ancient machine (Pentium Pro 200 wih 128MB) with a questionable boot drive. Fortunately for me (and the sites I host) they are all static HTML, no SQL at all. Otherwise, the machine would have fallen over years ago (still do about 75GB/month of traffic).

The real issue is figuring out how much RAM you need. I don't think you site gets enough traffic to worry about CPU or transfer.

[daerr]

I looked at Rimuhosting but for the memory you get, futurehost is way way cheaper.

For your pure static HTML, personally I'd just do Dreamhost. For static hosting they seem pretty good.

[novalis]

Scream at Dreamhost all you like -- it won't do any good. They go down a lot. If you can live with that, I highly recommend them.