On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jon L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdtech@rogers.com">jdtech@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hi All<br><br>We are currently looking to switch providers of our hosting. Does anyone have some recommendation of providers they are currently using that have good Virtual Private Servers and bang for the buck.<br>
<br>Preferably a Canadian hosting company. Not mandatory but would like to support the local economy, Canadian companies.<br><br>Our needs are strictly for FTP usage at this point. <br><br>Requirements in order of importance<br>
<br>- Reliable<br>- Cost Effective<br>- 24/7 - Support Responsive/knowledgeable <br>- Minimum 20GB of space<br>- Minimum 500GB/mth<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Linode seems to be great, for a very affordable price.<br>
I am on Slicehost and considering moving to Linode soon.<br><br>Regarding FTP, please do not use it for uploading stuff. Anonymous<br>FTP for downloading is fine, but uploading using a user and password<br>is insecure and is often an attack vector.<br>
<br>Install ssh, and you get sftp which is secure.<br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci<br>