[Tfug] Affordable hosting suggestions

[John Gruenenfelder]

Greetings,

I would like to ask the TFUG community for suggestions on hosting
providers.  It's been a while since the questions last came up and
it's an area that changes frequently.

Personally, I'm looking for something fairly inexpensive.  I want to
move my small "home" page off my UA machine onto something that I'm
paying for.  A virtual private server would be nice simply because it
would give me mostly full control to configure it how I like.  The
bandwidth needed for the hosting will be very small.  Also, the
ability to do SSL (https) connections would be nice to have, but I
know that the implementation of SSL has some unfortunate requirements
on separate IP addresses so that may not be possible without paying a
lot more.

In particular, I have two domains I would like to host on the same
service without needing to pay twice.  My setup is something like
this:

mydomain1.org - My personal site
mydomain2.org - A hub for my various projects
reader.mydomain2.org - One of those projects, hosted elsewhere
(probably SourceForge)
project.mydomain2.org

I hope that makes sense.  Would something like this be relatively easy
to set up?  I want to host the two domains on the same service.  There
will be separate hosts on the second domain (such as reader, shown
above), and most of these will be hosted elsewhere because they are
Free software projects and a place like SourceForge will host it for
free.  This is useful because the bandwidth requirements can vary
substantially depending on popularity and new releases.

Can anybody suggest a provider that could do this and be easy on the wallet?


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