Re: OT: Hosting providers

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Author: Mike
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: OT: Hosting providers
Kurt Granroth wrote:

> I could try to say that this post is relevant to plug since I'm
> looking for a hosting provider that runs Linux.. but we'd all know
> that's a poor rationalization. This post is simply off-topic. It's
> just that there are a lot of geeks here who are have long standing
> relationships with various hosting providers and I'm trying to find
> out some of them.
>
> I am having Very Bad Luck at choosing hosting providers. They tend to
> last between 3 to 6 months before their fatal flaws surface (down for
> a week at a time, all email bouncing, etc). My latest one
> (SurfSpeedy) was looking so good for so long (relatively, 6 months, I
> think).. until I find out that a significant amount of mail sent to
> @granroth.org is bouncing and they have no idea why. And then today I
> find out they are shutting down all SSH shell access to all users so
> no more rsync backups. Arg!! Alas that cox doesn't let me run my own
> servers...
>
> Anyway, in the past, I've fixated on ultra-cheap hosting providers
> (under $7 a month... $1/mo in one case) so that's likely one of my
> problems. It occurred to me when I found out mail was bouncing,
> though, that I value my email far more than my phone yet I have no
> problems paying over $20/mo for phone service. So I'm willing to pay
> a bit more now.
>
> Basically, I want/need the following:
>
> Must have been around for at least 5 years
> SSH shell access
> Unlimited subdomains
> At least 1 primary domain
> At least 1 "addon" domain
> At least 5 (and preferably unlimited) "parked" domains
> At least 50 email accounts
> Unlimited email forwarding
> At least 5 mailing lists
> IMAPS
> >500MB disk space
> 250MB/mo transfer limits
>
> And it would be really nice if there was authenticated SMTP on a
> different port than 25 (blocked by cox.net)
>
> It would also be nice (but not necessary) if they were local. I
> checked out deru and fastq but neither had packages that matched my
> criteria.
>
> So, if you've been with a hosting provider for a least a year or two
> and haven't had any email problems with them (and you think they might
> be able to help me), let me know!
>
> Thank you,
> Kurt



I have had good luck with onsmart.

http://www.onsmart.net/

I run a pretty beefy MySQL/PHP site and it has most of what you are
looking for sounds like. I have SSH, Crontab, IMAP, logs, Perl, etc. For
me it was actually the first host I could find that didn't die under the
daily load of my site or get overrun by MySQL questions, monthly
bandwidth, etc.

-Michael
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