On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Lorraine Kerwood <lorra...@nextsteprecycling.org> wrote: > Hey hey team, I am looking for web hosting suggestions. I would like to use > someone local for sustainability reasons (ya know-buy local think global). I > have spent some time surfing, but, can't find something local that works for > me. Then I thought-go to the geeks! This is for a small business - will > include cms, blog, social networking.... > Looking for a web host that won't burn my wallet, good tech support, email, > yada yada yada. Any suggestions?
Web Hosting is a very broad term it covers everything from the $6.95/month ftp with php outfits (which are basically unmaintained and unsupported) to outfits that specialise in taking a high-traffic site and making it work on a global scale with content delivery networks, geographic redundancy, database replication, load balancing etc. Most of the people I know who offer web hosting locally are web designers who offer it as a service to their clients; and most of them are using a commodity provider on the backend. If your web team is reasonably capable of doing their own configuration management and you aren't stuck on doing everything locally, I'd recommend going with a VPS provider like slicehost.com or linode.com, they are both economical, reliable and have really good support, and they are ultimately flexible in that you have administrative control over your slice, and can install whatever you want.and aren't constrained by by the providers software choices. >From an environmental standpoint it actually makes sense to have the machines concentrated in data centers where they can share power and HVAC efficiencies than to have them spread out all over the landscape; keep the people local, put the machines where they have the least impact :-) _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
