[olug] Suggestions for web/e-mail/shell access hosting...

[Daniel Pfile]

Here are the service's I've used either personally or for work  
recently. I don't use any fancy pants server control panels, just the  
vender panel to manage the physical/logical aspects of the server  
like booting, console, drives (for uml server), external firewall, etc.

www.linode.com - User Mode Linux servers. I use it for my personal  
server. The service is great, the control panel is great. You get a  
serial console, your choice of distro, only one at a time, but you  
can have as many disk images as will fit in your allocation. You're  
only limited to one of the kernel choices they have. Other than that,  
the sky's the limit. I've been with them for years and have no  
intention of leaving.

www.dreamhost.com - Shared hosting. I tried them last year. Pretty  
good standard shell support, etc, but I had lots of problems with  
their mail servers being horribly slow and unreliable. I've heard  
lots of people say their web hosting side can be rather slow at times  
too, but I didn't have a problem with them there. I guess they've  
fixed most of their problems, so if you're looking for shared  
hosting, consider these guys.

www.1and1.com - Dedicated servers. Their datacenter in germany is  
obviously kind of slow from here, but if you get one in their new  
Kansas data center, they're really fast. OK price, and you get a  
serial console (no bios access through it). I've done in place  
reinstalls from fedora to centos with some chroot magic over the  
console. They can netboot a rescue debian image too, which is pretty  
handy. Their 'managed' firewall can be kind of strange, but overall,  
not a bad dedicated server.

www.rackspace.com - Dedicated servers. You pay through the nose, but  
they'll add load balancers, firewalls, managed backup, etc. Quick  
response, reliable, etc. If you've got the cash, they're great.

www.serverpronto.com - Dedicated servers. Dirt cheap, bad service,  
network isn't very reliable. The only thing really going for them is  
they're dirt cheap.

-- Daniel

On Mar 17, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Daniel Linder wrote:

> My current location for my Linder.org server is going away.  I'm  
> thinking
> about switching to a hosting provider that I can park the domain  
> name at
> and host some web pages (family stuff).  I'd really like a small  
> hosted
> server that I could get shell access to via ssh, and I could keep  
> up the
> web and e-mail stuff myself.
>
> I've checked into "1and1.com", a friend said that "Jelecos.com" was  
> good
> to his customers, and a family member recommended "ipowerweb.com".   
> 1and1
> is nice because it has a $10/month solution with e-mail, ssh, and web
> hosting.
>
> I had thought of moving it back to my house and upgrade my Cox  
> cable modem
> service to the "business" class, but the cost is rather prohibitive  
> when
> all I need is a static IP address and in-bound e-mail connections.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Dan
>
> I know it's been asked here before, but I can't find it in the  
> archives...
>
>
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