[Tfug] Affordable hosting suggestions

[Andrew Ayre]

I have two domains, and SSL. I use asmallorange.com for the hosting and
it costs $22 per quarter. I use Godaddy for the domain names and they
cost about $8 per year with full DNS control for subdomains, etc. My SSL
certificate costs $30 per year from GoDaddy.

It's not a virtual server though. Instead I have a $20 PIII machine from
Worldcare as my home Linux server for files, periodic services, VPN,
etc. Essentially everything except public web hosting.

Andy

On 5/4/2012 12:07 PM, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> 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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Andy
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