[Tfug] Affordable hosting suggestions

[Dean Jones]

+1 dreamhost.

I also use them to host domain names where possible.  I prefer their
DNS interface to godaddy's.  But I find godaddy's interfaces to be
pretty horrible all around.



On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Jeff Breadner <jeff at breadner.ca> wrote:
> I've had a good experience with dreamhost.com, unlimited domain hosting,
> disk space and bandwidth for about $10/month (yearly domain charges
> separate).  Shell access to a shared Debian-based server.
>
> Cheers
>   Jeff
>
> On May 4, 2012 6:07 AM, "John Gruenenfelder" <jetpackjohn at gmail.com> 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?
>>
>>
>> --
>> --John Gruenenfelder    Systems Manager, MKS Imaging Technology, LLC.
>> Try Weasel Reader for Palm OS  --  http://weaselreader.org
>> "This is the most fun I've had without being drenched in the blood
>> of my enemies!"
>>         --Sam of Sam & Max
>>
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