<div dir="ltr">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...<div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 June 2014 09:52, Andrew Sullivan Cant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:acant@alumni.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">acant@alumni.uwaterloo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If we're name dropping other host, least do a local one :)<br>
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<a href="http://cloudatcost.com/" target="_blank">http://cloudatcost.com/</a> is still offering their $35 or $1/month servers.<br>
(1CPU,512MB,10GB)<br>
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The service is still young so I don't know if I'd trust them with a<br>
really critical or heavy load. But they are pretty cheap for simple stuff.<br>
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Andrew<br>
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On 2014-06-10, 8:09 PM, Paul Nijjar wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 02:57:51PM -0400, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br>
>> I currently run two websites that are hosted on <a href="http://myhosting.com" target="_blank">myhosting.com</a>. One is for<br>
>> a charity I help out and the other is my own blog. Everytime I see the<br>
>> charges on my Visa bill I wonder if there's a cheaper solution. I pay for<br>
>> both my own site and the charity's, so any cost savings would be<br>
>> appreciated.<br>
>><br>
>> Do any of you guys use a hosting service and if so, which one and are they<br>
>> any good?<br>
>><br>
>> My only real requirements are Wordpress capable (i.e. both sites are<br>
>> predominantly Wordpress generated) and a few email accounts. I don't need<br>
>> anything too fancy.<br>
><br>
> Can you give us a sense of your traffic usage per month?<br>
><br>
> We host <a href="http://www.theworkingcentre.org" target="_blank">www.theworkingcentre.org</a> via a Linode, and it is more than<br>
> powerful enough for our needs. It is also expensive, and there is some<br>
> systems adminisration involved (usually just "drush up" for Drupal and<br>
> "aptitude safe-upgrade" for the Debian install). We have a bunch of<br>
> sites on the Linode and it works fine, but Linodes are relatively<br>
> expensive. The support is fantastic, however, and the dashboard is<br>
> pretty good too. They also have a nice habit of upgrading your plan's<br>
> specifications without increasing the monthly costs, which I have<br>
> appreciated as well.<br>
><br>
> Cedric and Steph at CCj/Clearline do (shared) hosting as well, from<br>
> $5/month. They donate <a href="http://kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug.org</a>'s website storage to us:<br>
> <a href="http://ccjclearline.com/hosting.html" target="_blank">http://ccjclearline.com/hosting.html</a><br>
><br>
> Last I checked they did offer CPanel support, which should make<br>
> administrating email easier (if you want to go this way, which you<br>
> might not for the reasons Khalid suggests. Instead, you might want to<br>
> provide your users with aliases that point to actual accounts.)<br>
><br>
> Linode has a competitor called DigitalOcean that seems to be trendy<br>
> now. They have some really cheap VPS plans as well:<br>
> <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/" target="_blank">https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/</a> . They are not as cheap as<br>
> zixiekat's suggestions, but they are still pretty cheap.<br>
><br>
> Regardless of how you host you will need to keep up with security<br>
> updates, but I presume you are doing that with your Wordpress sites<br>
> now.<br>
><br>
><br>
> - Paul<br>
><br>
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