<html><head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just throwing my 2 cents in here. I set up a VPS with Provisionhost.com. They give you a linux host for 13.00/year, but it's low powered. Depending on your site it just might be enough. Course, it's a bare box, so you'd have to put WordPress on it and what have you...</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">256 mb ram, 1 VCPU, 5gb drive, 500 GB web traffic. You may well use more than 500, but I threw it out there anyway. :D </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yes, $13/year. Even if not for web hosting, it's handy to have a little VPS out there to do with what you will. </div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br name="BB10" caretmarkerset="INVALID" class="markedForCaretMarkerRemoval"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network.</div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Charles M</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, June 10, 2014 6:14 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>KWLUG discussion</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>KWLUG discussion</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [kwlug-disc] Website hosting</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><div dir="ltr">Linode definitely seems like a good option for you, it's a bit more than what you're currently paying, but VPS is way better than shared hosting IMHO and a lot less work than hosting it yourself.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="">On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:35 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>So, Linode $20 would be a good idea financially only if you can put both sites on one Linode. That leaves the administration part.<br><br></div><div>Did you look into Wordpress.com hosting? You don't need to deal with the Linux part of it at all.<br>
<br></div><div class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>The advice I can offer is that you do not offer email to anyone. It is way more headache than it is worth it, with all the spam, DMARC, SPF, ...etc. Some of their emails will not reach intended recipients, and they will complain to you and you cannot do much.<br>
<br>Better farm out the email (e.g. to Google Apps, which has a free tier), or ask them to get free email from Google or someone. There are some who would not like that because Google is USian, NSA, ...etc. but remember that email has at least two parties: sender and receiver. And you can't control where the receiver is hosting, nor what they do with the email.<br>
</div></div><div class="">-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>Fast Reliable Drupal<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>For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken<br>
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