[NTLUG:Discuss] Web hosting.

[Chris Cox]

Stuart Johnston wrote:
> On 10:52 pm 08/30/2006 steve <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> wrote:
>>I've always hosted my personal web site on a PC at home - but
>>I just volunteered to set up hosting for my local car club.
>>
>>Who are the "good guys" for web hosting these days?
>>
>>We need a mailing list (about 200 subscribers), a web site
>>(maybe 50Gbytes of stuff) and I'd like to set up a Wiki
>>and a Forum system.
>>
>>But since I'm running it - I need something Linux-based with
>>whatever tools also Linux-based.  (Although FTP would do
>>fine).
>>
>>Cost is also a concern.
>>
>>What recommendations do you guys have?
> 
> 
> dreamhost.com - they've had some power and network problems in their
> datacenter recently but generally are pretty reliable.  And very
> affordable.  Coupons are easily available that will get you the first year
> for practically free.  They also have autoinstalls for things like wiki's
> and forums.

I use dreamhost.com as well for housing stuff where I need near
limitless bandwidth.  For $20/mo. or so you'll get 1.6TB (yes...TB)
per month.  And you get 60GB of disk... yes... 60GB!  That's pretty
good.  Obviously, like other cheap large providers, they allow
anything that is allowe by U.S. law... which sadly means just
about anything.

Disk space quota increases 500M/week.

Bandwidth grows 16GB/week (sheesh!!).

I think alot of the problems they had lately were due to a SAN
unit... could be wrong.

Say cjcox at acm.org referred you and I get some credits.... of
course, you may want to find out Stuart's info and throw
him the referral... if you choose dreamhost.com.



> 
> 
> If you need uber-reliable, I'd suggest pair.com.  Although they run a BSD,
> it is generally close enough to Linux you shouldn't have much trouble.  You
> get less per $1 though.

For ultra reliable, but expensive, I use futurequest.net.  Both
dreamhost and futurequest use Linux.  However the futurequest folks
are very saavy technically (though I do diagree with some of the
ways they handle things).

Futurequest has pretty bad disk and bandwidth restrictions though...
not unusual, but certainly places them into the expensive or just
bad value category.  Fq doesn't allow "adult" hosting though, but
they tend to overload their severs (IMHO).

Since dreamhost is a p___graphy haven, I link only the large high
bandwidth items over there... and still use futurequest to house
my main site.

To my knowledge there are no "moral" high bandwidth, high storage
providers out there (that aren't incredibly expensive)... but feel
free to post if you know of one.  I'd like to ditch FQ.... just
not enough value there.

Love to get a good Linux VPS style solution...