[kwlug-disc] Website hosting

[CrankyOldBugger]

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>
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.  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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