[NTLUG:Discuss] Web hosting.

[steve]

Chris Cox wrote:
> 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.

Well there is *one* alternative - I host my website/wiki/etc from a
computer here at home - it's dog slow because it's heading the wrong
direction up the DSL cable - but from a convenience and cost perspective
it's unbeatable.  But this time I got roped into setting up a
site for my local Mini Cooper car club and I think they need
independence from me personally so that if I left the club they could
continue to run their stuff.

I'm slowly running through that list of recommendations - I have to say
that so far dreamhost looks unbeatable - but I'm not done with the list
yet.