[kwlug-disc] Website hosting

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

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.  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 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'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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