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Recommendations for good Web site hosting company (for personal Web site) Dr. Colombes 04-16-2006
Posted by Dr. Colombes on April 16, 2006, 7:49 pm
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For a personal Web site with modest throughput and interactivity
demans, I'm interested in your recommendation(s) for good (cheap,
reliable, Linux friendly, very little, if any, sponsor advertising) Web
site hosting company (in U.S.).

Thanks!


Posted by David E. Ross on April 16, 2006, 8:44 pm
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Dr. Colombes wrote:
> For a personal Web site with modest throughput and interactivity
> demans, I'm interested in your recommendation(s) for good (cheap,
> reliable, Linux friendly, very little, if any, sponsor advertising) Web
> site hosting company (in U.S.).
>
> Thanks!
>

I use my ISP, ISWest at <http://main.iswest.com/index.html>. I get 10
MB of Web space with no band-width limits. I also get Telnet access to
their Web server (my Web space only) so that I can test my SSI scripts,
which are coded in UNIX (Korn shell). There are NO ads. No, this is
not free hosting; but it is included in the cost of my Internet access
and mail boxes.

Note that a good Web server should be friendly to any user's platform
and operating system. I don't really understand your interest in "Linux
friendly".

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David E. Ross
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Posted by linnix on April 16, 2006, 9:04 pm
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David E. Ross wrote:
> Dr. Colombes wrote:
> > For a personal Web site with modest throughput and interactivity
> > demans, I'm interested in your recommendation(s) for good (cheap,
> > reliable, Linux friendly, very little, if any, sponsor advertising) Web
> > site hosting company (in U.S.).
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> I use my ISP, ISWest at <http://main.iswest.com/index.html>. I get 10
> MB of Web space with no band-width limits. I also get Telnet access to
> their Web server (my Web space only) so that I can test my SSI scripts,
> which are coded in UNIX (Korn shell). There are NO ads. No, this is
> not free hosting; but it is included in the cost of my Internet access
> and mail boxes.
>
> Note that a good Web server should be friendly to any user's platform
> and operating system. I don't really understand your interest in "Linux
> friendly".

One reason I can think of is that you can run the same binary on the
desktop and server. It's much easier to edit and compile on the local
desktop and ftp the binary to the server. I usually just keep a ssh
window to start/restart the application. Many of our webs are bigger
than 10MB.

>
> --
>
> David E. Ross
> <http://www.rossde.com/>
>
> Concerned about someone (e.g., Pres. Bush) snooping
> into your E-mail? Use PGP.
> See my <http://www.rossde.com/PGP/>


Posted by Leonard Blaisdell on April 16, 2006, 10:03 pm
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> > Note that a good Web server should be friendly to any user's platform
> > and operating system. I don't really understand your interest in "Linux
> > friendly".
>
> One reason I can think of is that you can run the same binary on the
> desktop and server.

Compilation on your machine with upload and function on another machine
is a rarely experienced luxury. Linux serves many architectures with
many branches.

leo

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Posted by ray on April 16, 2006, 11:24 pm
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On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:49:26 -0700, Dr. Colombes wrote:

> For a personal Web site with modest throughput and interactivity
> demans, I'm interested in your recommendation(s) for good (cheap,
> reliable, Linux friendly, very little, if any, sponsor advertising) Web
> site hosting company (in U.S.).
>
> Thanks!

I use netfirms.com for my web hosting, and I do several non-profit groups
there as well. They have free accounts, with ads. Their basic commercial
package is $5.95/mo and $5-$10/yr for domain registration. I believe
current limits are 600MB and 10 e-mail addresses. I've had good experience
with them and their e-mail support seems quite good. Recommended.


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