[kwlug-disc] Website hosting

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

Hi Christina...
I never saw that before, and I had to disable Ghostery before it would
come up.

Remember kids never surf the inter-webs with appropriate protection. ;)

Andrew

(P.S.: Thou I still want a FLOSS alternative to Ghostery, Disconnect
exists but the last time I tried it the blocking was not very successful.
https://disconnect.me/
)


On 2014-06-11, 10:01 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> I went to the link you provided and was attacked by a chat bot named
> Christina.. she offered 50% off everything TODAY ONLY! before I even had
> a chance to read the webpage...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11 June 2014 09:52, Andrew Sullivan Cant <acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca
> <mailto:acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     If we're name dropping other host, least do a local one :)
> 
>     http://cloudatcost.com/ is still offering their $35 or $1/month servers.
>     (1CPU,512MB,10GB)
> 
>     The service is still young so I don't know if I'd trust them with a
>     really critical or heavy load. But they are pretty cheap for simple
>     stuff.
> 
>     Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     On 2014-06-10, 8:09 PM, Paul Nijjar wrote:
>     >
>     > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 02:57:51PM -0400, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>     >> I currently run two websites that are hosted on myhosting.com
>     <http://myhosting.com>.  One is for
>     >> a charity I help out and the other is my own blog.  Everytime I
>     see the
>     >> charges on my Visa bill I wonder if there's a cheaper solution. I
>     pay for
>     >> both my own site and the charity's, so any cost savings would be
>     >> appreciated.
>     >>
>     >> Do any of you guys use a hosting service and if so, which one and
>     are they
>     >> any good?
>     >>
>     >> My only real requirements are Wordpress capable (i.e. both sites are
>     >> predominantly Wordpress generated) and a few email accounts.  I
>     don't need
>     >> anything too fancy.
>     >
>     > Can you give us a sense of your traffic usage per month?
>     >
>     > We host www.theworkingcentre.org <http://www.theworkingcentre.org>
>     via a Linode, and it is more than
>     > powerful enough for our needs. It is also expensive, and there is some
>     > systems adminisration involved (usually just "drush up" for Drupal and
>     > "aptitude safe-upgrade" for the Debian install). We have a bunch of
>     > sites on the Linode and it works fine, but Linodes are relatively
>     > expensive. The support is fantastic, however, and the dashboard is
>     > pretty good too. They also have a nice habit of upgrading your plan's
>     > specifications without increasing the monthly costs, which I have
>     > appreciated as well.
>     >
>     > Cedric and Steph at CCj/Clearline do (shared) hosting as well, from
>     > $5/month. They donate kwlug.org <http://kwlug.org>'s website
>     storage to us:
>     > http://ccjclearline.com/hosting.html
>     >
>     > Last I checked they did offer CPanel support, which should make
>     > administrating email easier (if you want to go this way, which you
>     > might not for the reasons Khalid suggests. Instead, you might want to
>     > provide your users with aliases that point to actual accounts.)
>     >
>     > Linode has a competitor called DigitalOcean that seems to be trendy
>     > now. They have some really cheap VPS plans as well:
>     > https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/ . They are not as cheap as
>     > zixiekat's suggestions, but they are still pretty cheap.
>     >
>     > Regardless of how you host you will need to keep up with security
>     > updates, but I presume you are doing that with your Wordpress sites
>     > now.
>     >
>     >
>     > - Paul
>     >
> 
> 
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