[Tfug] Affordable hosting suggestions

[Leo Przybylski]

Aws. Route 53 so you can manage your dns.

Leo
On May 4, 2012 7:21 AM, "Andrew Ayre" <andy at britishideas.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >
>
> --
> Andy
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