Linda does offer this feature. It’s called hourly billing. As does Amazon EC2.
> On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Terriffic point, Tyler. I guess I just figured that the power outage thing > is something she would have already inferred, but you are right. It's worth > mentionning. Good point. > > Oh, and BTW, in another post, Tyler recommended Digital Ocean: > > http://www.digitalocean.com <http://www.digitalocean.com/> > > I strongly! strongly! would agree with him on this. Linode seemed to be a > bit pricy for what I did, but what I love! about Digital Ocean is, you create > your droplet, then you basically only pay for the amount of time you use it. > So, in other words, let's say you got their lowest Linux based droplet. > That's I think, like, $5, if I remember correctly? So, say you only used > that server for 2 days powered on. I'd have to do the math, but basically, > if you then destroyed that droplet after 2 days, then, out of the 30 day > monthly charge, you'd only actually! have to pay for those 2 days you were up > and running. It's Gr'r'r'rate! if you just need a server temporarily, or > just want to benchmark something long enough to see how it would function. > > I'll give you a perfect example. Not that you're trying to do this, but, I > wanted to see with certain specs how well hypothetically I could run Asterisk > along with Nerdvittles Incrediblepbx. So, I created a droplet with those > specs, logged in via SSH and installed Incrediblepbx, used it for about a > day, realized I needed something a little more powerful, so destroied the > droplet two days later, and bam! That was the end of it. I only paid for > those two days, as aposed to the whole month. I think my final bill was only > like maybe a dollar, if even that. > > Obviously, it would be more than that if you were trying to host a web site, > as you'd want the server up all the time, and obviously wouldn't want your > droplet destroyed, but my point is more just that Digital Ocean gives you > that option in the first place. I don't think Linode does that, please > correct me if I'm wrong, as I've not used them in ages. > > Chris. > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Littlefield, Tyler <mailto:ty...@tysdomain.com> >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:11 AM >> Subject: Re: Building a website, what's the best way? >> >> Two things I forgot to mention here. >> The speed you will probably want to pay close attention to is the upload >> speed. It’s usually about 20% of your download speed on most home >> connections (for a pretty good reason generally). You will be uploading >> content to your users who are downloading, so that’s the most important and >> will cost you to get higher. >> >> Second, if you are running anything at all of importance and say the cat >> kicks the tower, a storm takes your power out your site is down. Home >> connections are not assured they will be up 100% of the time. Hosts >> generally have servers in data centers where they have redundant internet >> links from multiple backbones as well as power generators on site to insure >> that in the case of power loss your site will stay up if possible. Many rack >> servers even have redundant power supplies and racks can (and usually do) >> have UPS systems mounted in the rack as well for more redundancy. >> >> HTH, >>> On Jun 23, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Krysti .Power <happypuppy...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:happypuppy...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> To check your speed go to www.speedtest.net <http://www.speedtest.net/> >>> On Jun 23, 2015 11:00 AM, "Krysti .Power" <happypuppy...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:happypuppy...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> You need a decated computer needed to be left of all time time a static IP >>>> address good upload speed and have to see up port forwarding on your >>>> router >>>> On Jun 23, 2015 10:58 AM, "Donna Goodin" <doniado...@me.com >>>> <mailto:doniado...@me.com>> wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I know this is way off topic, but this thread touched on something I've >>>>> been thinking about for a while. How would I go about being my own host? >>>>> My sites are currently hosted with a group called A2 Hosting, but I've >>>>> been wondering about hosting them myself. >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Donna >>>>> > On Jun 22, 2015, at 10:12 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>>>> > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>> > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > First you can play with HTML without buying anything. You can put text >>>>> > edit in "plain text" mode and start writing your first html file. Then >>>>> > load that in Safari to check your work. You'll just flip back and forth >>>>> > adding stuff and reviewing. Once you've got the hang of HTML then I'd >>>>> > start thinking about hosting and setting up a domain name. So in text >>>>> > edit, before you create a new file go to preferences and set the format >>>>> > radio button to Plain text. Name your file something ending in either >>>>> > .htm or .html such as MyFirstWebPage.html and then you can start >>>>> > putting html in there. Once you have saved that file somewhere you can >>>>> > open MyFirstWebPage.html in Safari to review the results. >>>>> > >>>>> > There are piles of free tutorials out there so just google around. Web >>>>> > pages are generally three general buckets. HTML is the content with >>>>> > markup sprinkled around to tell what the content is such as a >>>>> > paragraph, list or table. CSS is Cascading Style Sheets where you can >>>>> > make, for example, all the headings a certain font or add margin to >>>>> > paragraphs. The last most complex bit is javascript which is code that >>>>> > can manipulate the content or the styles, usually in reaction to user >>>>> > events such as mouse clicks or keystrokes. >>>>> > >>>>> > CB >>>>> > >>>>> > On 6/22/15 6:29 PM, Nancy Badger wrote: >>>>> >> Hi, >>>>> >> I am thinking of building a very simple website. I have never done >>>>> >> this before. I have no idea how or where to start. I know I need to >>>>> >> get a domain name. How do I do this? Is there an accessible program >>>>> >> to use one building a website are there tutorials? Thanks for any help >>>>> >> you can provide. >>>>> >> Nancy >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Nancy Badger, Ph.D >>>>> >> Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services >>>>> >> UT Chattanooga >>>>> >> Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. 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