[olug] Basic cheap local hosting?

[Rob Townley]

Maybe less if sign a 5 year contract.

On Sunday, December 4, 2011, Jason N <dashrender at cox.net> wrote:
> I'm not sure cox can force you into anything, but I do know they block
inbound port 80 and port 25.
>
> A business line if you want to host from home costs about $89/mnth.  If
you already pay for a the highest level of service with Cox this won't be
much more than you are already paying.
>
>
> ---- "T. J. Brumfield" <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was under the impression that Cox won't offer a static IP with home
> internet, so you have to a pay a fortune for business internet.
>
> I have considered looking a dynamic DNS service, but I heard that Cox will
> force you into business internet if they detect your hosting a web server.
>
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>
>> I went for years from one hosting company to another, and in each case,
at
>> some point tech support failed me mightily.  At the last company, after a
>> seventeen-day server outage because I couldn't get past tier one tech
>> support, I resolved to host my own site.  Just about any old computer
will
>> run Linux well enough for a low-bandwidth site, and now when I need to
>> contact tech support, the guy may be a jerk but he takes my problems
>> seriously.  It's been five years now and I haven't looked back.
>>
>> I assume you've got DSL or cable at home; how much to add a static IP
>> address?  If static is too pricy, you can always get dynamic DNS thru
>> www.dyn.com or elsewhere.
>>
>>  I need to host a low bandwidth Wordpress site. Really, I don't need
>>> anything more than a shared hosting account. But everyone I've tried
>>> doesn't allow me to do page caching, so performance is pretty poor.
>>>
>>> I actually just signed up for a hosting service the other day because
the
>>> sales staff assured me without a doubt that I could do opcode caching. I
>>> migrated my domain and site over, only to find it isn't enabled on the
>>> server. In fact, pretty much any Apache module I need for that caching
>>> plugin isn't installed and they're not willing to install any of them,
>>> including some really basic/common modules like mod_deflate and
>>> mod_rewrite. The technical staff state that no one should have reason to
>>> use those.
>>>
>>> After migrating this site five times already from one terrible host to
>>> another, I'm curious if anyone on this list can recommend a good, cheap
>>> service, or if they one of their own?
>>>
>>> I could rent a VPS through Linode, except that seems overkill for a
single
>>> Wordpress install that will get minimal traffic.
>>>
>>> -- T. J. Brumfield
>>> "I'm questioning my education
>>> Rewind and what does it show?
>>> Could be, the truth it becomes you
>>> I'm a seed, wondering why it grows"
>>> -- Pearl Jam, Education
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