[NTLUG:Discuss] Web hosting.

[Chris Cox]

steve wrote:
> Wow!  What a lot of great recommendations!  Many thanks
> to everyone.  I think I have enough to check out.
> 
> Chris Cox wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> Does that mean that you might find "your" site being blocked
> by spamcop or netnanny whatever because some other site happens
> to be on the same IP address as you?

Well.. you'll have your own IP, but you may be going through
their shared smtp... so yes... it's possible to be RBL'd (or
worse) depending on how things are configured (I don't use their mail).

But you have this risk no matter who you choose.

Three years ago I was getting so much spam from rackspace.com that
I blocked their entire netblock range... I sent a note to
them... which was dutifully ignored like 99.9999% of all
mail sent to postmaster/abuse/etc...

I think since then, they may toned things down at rackspace, but
I'll never use them... just because of what happened.