By "local" I guess I really mean small enough that I can get a real person if there's an issue, even if it's email support only. I've had bad luck with large web hosts like Dreamhost and 1and1 in the past. Most of the time they're excellent, but when there is an issue tech support is unresponsive and it takes days to get it resolved. It's been a few years since I've shopped around, and maybe that's not as much of an issue anymore. I'm leaning towards a hosted solution, rather than VPS. Someone else can worry about keeping up to date with security updates for Linux and Apache. -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Theo Van Dinter Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:46 AM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] web hosting? Just curious, why do you want it to be local? If it's a random host out on the Internet, locality probably doesn't matter much unless latency is an issue for you. And what do you mean by local? Are you limiting to just Worcester area, or Eastern MA, or New England, or Eastern US, or ...? ;) You can get a VPS pretty cheap, I seem to recall prices of ~$35/month for a small instance in NYC w/ 100-200G/month transfer. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Nick Nassar <nassar@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations for a cheap, relatively Apache/MySQL/PHP web and POP/IMAP email host? Preferably someplace local. It doesn’t have to be too powerful. A few gigabytes of storage space and max bandwidth in the range of tens of gigabytes per month.
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