Thank you all for the feedback. I've talked to/played with a few potentials and am going to do Slicehost for the largest site....and the rest of them once I figure out how to neatly consolidate things. Thanks to all, and to all a good night. ====================== Jordan Peacock hewhocutsdown at gmail.com hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Eric F Crist <ecrist at secure-computing.net>wrote: > > Any recommendations? >> > >> > It's for an existing site that exceeds the CPU/RAM usage of some of the >> > lower-priced basic offerings from AN Hosting or GoDaddy (the shared >> virtual >> > servers). Not a heavy hard drive or bandwidth site. Currently paying >> > $150/quarter, looking to lower that as much as possible, as this is for >> a >> > non-profit organization that is on half of a shoe-string budget as it >> is. >> > >> > Does it make sense to upgrade my internet connection and host it myself, >> or >> > go after a hosting company? Ideally I would like to administrate the >> server >> > as well and have it run Ubuntu or Debian, but I'm not hellbent on that. >> > > Sorry I'm coming into this late. If you're not experiencing huge bandwidth > requirements from any of the sites you're hosting, I'd recommend DSL and > hosting things at your own home, provided you have space. As you suggest > this above, I'm guessing this isn't a problem. > > For many, many, years, I've hosted my things on a server in my own > basement. I've got DSL from ipHouse (iphouse.net), and very reliable > power in my neighborhood. Comcast is even allowing webhosting on their > connections now, provided you go with the business-level service. With > that, you can get blocks of IPs, the same as has been the case with DSL for > years. Their upload speed ranges from 1 to 2 Mbps, whereas DSL caps out at > ~800Kbps. Qwest is offering a new 20Mbps fibre option, but I'm not sure > about their terms on personal web hosting. > > If that doesn't work for you, I know of at least one person who uses Colo > Pronto (www.colopronto.com) without too much issue. You ship down your > own 1u server, pay $25/mo and you get a 100Mb connection to the world > (shared, of course). They make their money on service, however. Reboots, > eyes and hands, etc. I'd caution you on them only in regards to outgoing > spam. UCEPROTECT has them listed at various levels on a fairly regular > basis, a few times at level 3 (the entire AS was blacklisted). > > Now, when you run you servers at home, there is going to be the occasional > downtime. No, or little, battery backup; no connection redundancy; you're > out of town on vacation and cannot reboot that firewall you *had* to > reconfigure from the beach. Overall, I find it's nice to have control of > things. > > --- > Eric Crist > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080921/13ddd6a5/attachment.htm