Speed of initial setup. Full root access/choice of distro Legalese/TOS (the situations I will and will not be charged over) I've also discovered that trying to host from home isn't going to work, and I've had a tough time with EC2 when I last tried it (a few months ago), plus it's beta. There were a couple other runners-up that I'm pretty sure would be equally effective. It came down to more or less a flip of a coin between a couple of them. Nevertheless, pretty much all these options were new to me, so thank you for your input everyone, and your anecdotes and personal experiences. It helped a lot. ====================== Jordan Peacock hewhocutsdown at gmail.com hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Eric F Crist <ecrist at secure-computing.net>wrote: > Why Slicehost? > > /me reads... > > * Choice of Linux distro. > > Crap. > > Oh yeah, this is a Linux list. > > :) > > But, seriously, all seriousness aside, what were your pluses and minuses > for Slicehost? > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > > On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:14 PM, Jordan Peacock wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > --- > Eric Crist > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080922/de4bbd9a/attachment-0001.htm