<div dir="ltr"><div><div>My site <a href="http://g-lab.ca">g-lab.ca</a> is wordpress based and hosted with <a href="http://netfirms.ca">netfirms.ca</a> They register dot ca and low cost hosting. Last year paid $10 per a year.<br>
<br></div>Fadil Berisha<br></div><a href="http://g-lab.ca">g-lab.ca</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Fernando Duran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:liberosec@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">liberosec@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
My generic go-to web hosting companies are:<br>
<br>
- Rimuhosting.com (good tech support if I may say since I worked there he)<br>
- Rackspace (I'd say with Linode it's the standard VPS option, together with AWS but Amazon is for more advanced needs)<br>
- and recently DigitalOcean.com which has SSD disks (a quick test revelaed a 10x faster write than regular disks), it's very cheap and they seem to be growing very fast, which can be good or bad regarding reliability (no long record).<br>
<br>
For a small company that needs a bit/a lot of hand-holding I wouldn't know what to recommend since good human support time is expensive and small companies don't have a lot of money so requirements are kind of contradictory, perhaps a local small IT company?<br>
<br>
In this particular case of WP and email, there are specialized WP hosting and also companies with point-and-click WP images provisioning.<br>
<br>
Regarding email for a small company I'd suggest to outsource it (if owner doesn't mind making things just a bit easier for NSA), to Gmail or RackspaceMail for example. Basically you need uptime plus deliverability and mail servers (esp. the big ones gmail/hotmail/yahoo) tend to drop to the floor email messages from unknown mail servers.<br>
<br>
Lastly, besides owning the domain name, it would be good in general to have a recipe (in shell script, Ansible/puppet/chef/whatever) and off-side (like Amazon's S3 etc) backups to be able to move the site quickly off to another one if we're not happy with our hosting.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
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Fernando Duran<br>
<a href="http://www.fduran.com" target="_blank">http://www.fduran.com</a><br>
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> From: Paul Nijjar <<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>><br>
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> Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2013 2:00:37 AM<br>
> Subject: [kwlug-disc] Evaluating webhosting<br>
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>T his is not really offtopic, since the desire is to do some Wordpress<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> hosting, as well as some email. It may be a contentious topic, since<br>
> there is so much choice (and I believe some people on this list offer<br>
> webhosting services).<br>
><br>
> Anyways, I was recently asked about webhosting for a business. The<br>
> person in question has a simple Wordpress site and three email<br>
> accounts. She has hosting already (with Clickhost) but is unhappy with<br>
> them because their email went down for a week -- so reliability and<br>
> security (whatever "security" means) are important to her. I am pretty<br>
> sure she wants shared hosting, as opposed to colocation or a VPS. She<br>
> just wants a website and email, not to be a sysadmin.<br>
><br>
> I am kind of lost about what to tell her. There are so many hosting<br>
> companies out there, and evaluating what ones are good (and what<br>
> criteria to use in evaluating them) makes my head spin. Anecdotes and<br>
> word of mouth are two tools for suggesting webhosts, but are there<br>
> other ways to come to good decisions about this?<br>
><br>
> - Paul<br>
><br>
><br>
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