[kwlug-disc] Website hosting

[CrankyOldBugger]

I just went through all the statements (luckily they were online) and
figured that I'm paying around $200US per site per year, so around $17US
per month per site.

One other criteria that I need to consider is how easy it would be for any
one of my users to access their email at the charity site.  Right now I
haven't issued email addresses to the other organizers simply because the
getmail program on this site is not at all user friendly.  So any new host
(if I find one) would have to have webmail that older users could
understand.




On 10 June 2014 15:42, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No, I'm not paying that much.. I'll have to dig up the bills to be sure,
>> but I'm thinking it's around $100/year per site.
>>
>
> That is as cheap as it gets, at $8.3 a month.
>
>
>> General Linux sysadmin tasks are no problem, I've just never hosted from
>> my house before.  Should I build a VM to run these on?  What about DNS?  I
>> use DynDNS for my own machines (for remoting in) but would I be able to use
>> my existing website names with them?  As you can see, it's n00b questions
>> here... but I certainly look forwarding to learning about this stuff.
>>
>
> I recommend against hosting it from your house. Your ISP may block web or
> mail traffic, at their discretion. Also, you "own" the server if a disk
> blows up or power goes out. You are better off someone in a data centre
> doing these things for you.
>
> What I was recommending is getting a VPS and installing the LAMP stack on
> it. But the minimum for a proper VPS is $20 at Linode. Others can be
> cheaper, but not as cheap as $8 a month.
> --
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