Recommendations for Linux hosting companies
Hi guys, My apologizes if this has been asked before. I'm in search of recommendations for a Linux hosting company where I can park/buy a domain. I plan on using the domain mostly for email and maybe a wee personal web site. Virtual private servers are great, UML/xen/etc, but often a bit expensive. Shared hosting would be second choice, and last choice would be managed services. Of course google returns heaps of them, what I'm looking for is input from those of you who have good or bad experiences and which ones to avoid. Cheers, sV
Re: Recommendations for Linux hosting companies
The problem with using a small hosting company is getting mail delivered to xtra/yahoo. So make sure whoever you choose has a reputable - in their eyes - smarthost. If you want to take pot luck, I can offer you space - debian lenny/virtualmin. Cheers, Steve On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 21:04 +1300, Solor Vox wrote: Hi guys, My apologizes if this has been asked before. I'm in search of recommendations for a Linux hosting company where I can park/buy a domain. I plan on using the domain mostly for email and maybe a wee personal web site. Virtual private servers are great, UML/xen/etc, but often a bit expensive. Shared hosting would be second choice, and last choice would be managed services. Of course google returns heaps of them, what I'm looking for is input from those of you who have good or bad experiences and which ones to avoid. Cheers, sV
Re: Recommendations for Linux hosting companies
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 21:04 +1300, Solor Vox wrote: My apologizes if this has been asked before. I'm in search of recommendations for a Linux hosting company where I can park/buy a domain. I plan on using the domain mostly for email and maybe a wee personal web site. Virtual private servers are great, UML/xen/etc, but often a bit expensive. Shared hosting would be second choice, and last choice would be managed services. If you want NZ based hosting, these guys are great; http://www.sitehost.co.nz/ overseas, these guys are great; http://www.linode.com/ hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's Open Source Hardware Supplier
Re: Recommendations for Linux hosting companies
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:04:05 Solor Vox wrote: Hi guys, My apologizes if this has been asked before. I'm in search of recommendations for a Linux hosting company where I can park/buy a domain. I plan on using the domain mostly for email and maybe a wee personal web site. Virtual private servers are great, UML/xen/etc, but often a bit expensive. Shared hosting would be second choice, and last choice would be managed services. Of course google returns heaps of them, what I'm looking for is input from those of you who have good or bad experiences and which ones to avoid. Cheers, sV Hi, I have been using the Kiwi Web Hosting Company: http://kiwiwebhost.co.nz/ Their $1/week plan is exactly that, $52 for a year of hosting, with 10Mb web space and 5 mail addresses. They will host your account on Linux by request and you get access to Python and other goodies. They fail periodically, but they do update their 'service status' page with timely information, and their technical support is swift. They also register domains for you, so for about $100 you can get a .nz domain and hosting. Best wishes, Andrew PS I'm going to check the other recommendations, in case there's something better for me, but I'm happy with what I have for now.
Re: Recommendations for Linux hosting companies
My picks: Rackspace.com - If you're serious. I've got a number of 'cloud' virtual Linux machines with them for my own projects, and a 30U of colo kit for my real job. I've always had excellent service from them, including during some DR situations, and they have yet to disappoint me on any count. Bluehost.com - cpanel based bulk shared hosting. Cheap, no data caps, pretty good service, although I have had some unexplained outages in the last 6 months, they come online again quickly. I have 25 domains with them, customers and my own, under four accounts. Support is good, but I think they might be spread a little thin out of US 9-5 hours. kiwiwebhost.co.nz - budget shared hosting that's local. Cpanel based on Linux. I was with them until I shifted to Bluehost because I started hosting a photo archive and needed more space and bandwidth than I could get locally at a reasonable cost. Cheers, Me. On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 21:04 +1300, Solor Vox wrote: Hi guys, My apologizes if this has been asked before. I'm in search of recommendations for a Linux hosting company where I can park/buy a domain. I plan on using the domain mostly for email and maybe a wee personal web site. Virtual private servers are great, UML/xen/etc, but often a bit expensive. Shared hosting would be second choice, and last choice would be managed services. Of course google returns heaps of them, what I'm looking for is input from those of you who have good or bad experiences and which ones to avoid. Cheers, sV
Re: Recommendations for Linux hosting companies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not sure how good these guys are but worth a shot http://www.asmallorange.com/hosting/shared/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkt3dKwACgkQGplaCYOFvyvNggCcD0Mfdz0DjTokl9GRbMfa64Q8 90AAoJQEUIz4zwlGhFHQjsVHkDBtTsVZ =ueMR -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Recommendations for Linux hosting companies
+1 for rackspace good service. reliable thus far. cheap(ish) and lots of choices for linux flavours, and the ability to snapshot and create a new host from an existing one is particularly useful for me ... On 14 February 2010 12:54, Chris Hellyar c...@logicalit.biz wrote: My picks: Rackspace.com - If you're serious. I've got a number of 'cloud' virtual Linux machines with them for my own projects, and a 30U of colo kit for my real job. I've always had excellent service from them, including during some DR situations, and they have yet to disappoint me on any count. On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 21:04 +1300, Solor Vox wrote: Of course google returns heaps of them, what I'm looking for is input from those of you who have good or bad experiences and which ones to avoid. Cheers, sV -- Abhinav Keswani
