I ended up doing a (rather pricey) full colo, but if I had gone with shared hosting, these guys[1] looked interesting, http://linode.com/ -Jamie [1] When I read about it, I got the impression that it is mostly one rather smart dude behind it. On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Mike Leo wrote:
I know this question has gone around a few times, but I don't keep all the = emails i get!=0A=0AAnyway, i host a weak little personal web site out of my= house and was looking into hosting companies.=0A=0ANot quite sure how it w= orks, if I want linux/mysql/wordpress. I need more than just a place to ho= ld my index.html.=0A=0AAre there companies that give me total control over = a "server" on the internet? I say "server" 'cause my guess would be a virt= ual machine I could control remotely.=0A=0AAny advise would be greatly appr= eciated.=0A=0AMike=0A=0A
Jamie Guinan wrote, on Sep 11, 2007 at 22:32 EDT:
I ended up doing a (rather pricey) full colo, but if I had gone with shared hosting, these guys[1] looked interesting,
-Jamie
[1] When I read about it, I got the impression that it is mostly one rather smart dude behind it.
Caker *is* a smart dude. Now he has two employees helping him. I've been with them since their first month of public operation. I think I'm customer #7 or somesuch. Through periodic upgrades that they give out, what was once a Linode 128 is now a Linode 600 (the number refers to the amount of RAM in the plan). (i.e., they upgrade your plan as their capacity increases, instead of making you pay more for it. We've already had two upgrades this year.) It's all based on UserMode Linux. Stop by #linode on irc.oftc.net. Tell 'em guinea-pig sent ya' :) -- Aaron Haviland 34 Wayne Ave, Dudley, MA home: [508] 943 - 7974
What about godaddy or something like that? I've been thinking about setting up a server at home here, but not sure if I should just go with a hosted solution or not... -Jared On 9/12/07, Aaron Haviland <orion@parsed.net> wrote:
Jamie Guinan wrote, on Sep 11, 2007 at 22:32 EDT:
I ended up doing a (rather pricey) full colo, but if I had gone with shared hosting, these guys[1] looked interesting,
-Jamie
[1] When I read about it, I got the impression that it is mostly one rather smart dude behind it.
Caker *is* a smart dude. Now he has two employees helping him.
I've been with them since their first month of public operation. I think I'm customer #7 or somesuch. Through periodic upgrades that they give out, what was once a Linode 128 is now a Linode 600 (the number refers to the amount of RAM in the plan). (i.e., they upgrade your plan as their capacity increases, instead of making you pay more for it. We've already had two upgrades this year.)
It's all based on UserMode Linux.
Stop by #linode on irc.oftc.net. Tell 'em guinea-pig sent ya' :)
-- Aaron Haviland 34 Wayne Ave, Dudley, MA home: [508] 943 - 7974
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Over the past n years, I have gone from a few RH boxes sitting on the ping-pong table in the basement running sendmail, apache, dns, etc., all the way to paying XO $20 a month for everything. While running what amounted to my own "ISP" was fun for a while, not running one turns out to be even more fun! ;-) Not having to pay the additional fees for static IP / bandwidth, etc., more than compensates for paying XO. But... If you've got a personal connection for a colo type setup and need/want to be able to do whatever you want without having to think about how a provider's rules might constrain you, then that's the way to go. Most providers have reasonably priced options for everything up to e-commerce, and you don't have to worry about backup, powerfail, redundant high-speed connections, etc., etc., but you have to play by their rules... On another note... I'm not as happy with XO as I once was... Has anyone looked at Google's hosting? Steve On 9/12/07, Jared Greenwald <greenwaldjared@gmail.com> wrote:
What about godaddy or something like that? I've been thinking about setting up a server at home here, but not sure if I should just go with a hosted solution or not...
-Jared
On 9/12/07, Aaron Haviland <orion@parsed.net> wrote:
Jamie Guinan wrote, on Sep 11, 2007 at 22:32 EDT:
I ended up doing a (rather pricey) full colo, but if I had gone with shared hosting, these guys[1] looked interesting,
-Jamie
[1] When I read about it, I got the impression that it is mostly one rather smart dude behind it.
Caker *is* a smart dude. Now he has two employees helping him.
I've been with them since their first month of public operation. I think I'm customer #7 or somesuch. Through periodic upgrades that they give out, what was once a Linode 128 is now a Linode 600 (the number refers to the amount of RAM in the plan). (i.e., they upgrade your plan as their capacity increases, instead of making you pay more for it. We've already had two upgrades this year.)
It's all based on UserMode Linux.
Stop by #linode on irc.oftc.net. Tell 'em guinea-pig sent ya' :)
-- Aaron Haviland 34 Wayne Ave, Dudley, MA home: [508] 943 - 7974
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