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Author: Siri Amrit Kaur
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: OT: Hosting providers
check out http://zettai.net

They run FreeBSD. A year runs me $60. They also provide Zope, Plone, Apache
and other goodies. I don't know if they have everything you require, but
they've been very reliable for me, and for my employers' website.

My little homepage: www.tigerflag.com

Siri Amrit



On Sunday 09 January 2005 06:56 pm, Kurt Granroth kindly 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
>
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