On 01/04/2012 01:49 PM, Hanssens Bart wrote:
Not sure if it is wat you are looking for, but maybe Gandi.net is worth
considering.
They support creative commons, the EFF and some open source projects.
http://www.gandi.net/supports/
At OKF we recently changed to Gandi.net as our domain registrar. One
reason was that they are very friendly to 'Open' projects. So far, our
experiences are good.
Your question about hosting is too unspecific. Recommendations would
depend on your needs: Are you looking for shared webhosting or virtual
machines or bare metal? Are you talking 1, 10 or 100 machines? Should
they be managed? Do you need a cloud API? How much performance is
needed? Is low cost more important than good support?
That said, some observations:
* When it comes to bare metal, hetzner.de is very cheap, has a good
infrastructure and OKish support. Many OSS projects live there.
Unbeatable if you are willing to setup virtualisation hosts yourself.
* RackSpace has very good support (compared to other hosters), and are
the main driver behind the OSS cloud project OpenStack.org
* Gandi, known to be friendly to "open" projects, recently started to
offer hosting as well. I have no experience with that yet.
Hope that helps.
/nils.
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On Behalf Of Laura Newman [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:29 PM
To: Fabio Barone
Cc: [email protected]; OKFN Help; Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list
Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Most "open" way of registering a domain/get a
hosting?
Dear Fabio,
Thanks very much for your email. Firstly, apologies for the delayed reply - a
lot of people have been away over the Christmas break.
I have circulated your query to our discussion and help lists. Perhaps some
people there may have good suggestions for the most open way to register a
domain name or may be able to recommend specific hosting providers.
In the meantime, thanks for getting in touch and Happy New Year!
Kind regards,
Laura
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Fabio
Barone<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi OKFN
first congrats for the great work.
I visited the OKCon in Berlin 2011, and loved it.
I have a question:
What is in your opinion the most "open" way to get a domain name
registered, meaning which registrars offer options which are most akin
our "open" way of thinking?
Are there also any hosting providers which can be recommended?
Thanks a lot
fabio
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