Web Hosting

[Paul Mooring]

Generally business lines (even at the same speed) are much more expensive
than residential lines.  That combined with the high reliability of a VPS
(redundant power and ISPs, etc.) and the fact that I just don't want
hardware in the house makes ~ $5/mon more than worth it.


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Michael Torres <matorres124 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just curious about the cost of the talked about vhosts.  For me...i want
> to think about having my own server.
> Most of us are "techies" so i am sure we have above average speeds on our
> personal services.
>
> Meaning that we are having an expense of internet every month anyways.
>
> Why not see if a isp will drop a business line into your home.
> That would probably have the same if not more speed. With the business
> service you get at least one ip.
>
> Then the cost of hardware (one time ) expense.
>
> To me that would probaby increase what i am paying now only about 10-20 a
> month. And i would have more control over my system.
>
> The question would be would an isp drop a biz line into a residential home?
> On Feb 19, 2014 10:39 AM, "Paul Mooring" <paul at getchef.com> wrote:
>
>> I use digital ocean as well and I'm happy with them, but if you go that
>> route make sure you're aware of some of the security controversies:
>> http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/30/iaas-provider-digitalocean-finds-itself-back-in-security-trouble/I'm pretty careful of what I actually store on my VPS there.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I actually use digital ocean, it's a vps, and they're definitely good
>>> for the price.  I was running a starbound and minecraft server on it, and
>>> using it as a remote shell for things, never gave me any issue cept I
>>> needed more memory to do both.  I ended up have to install some scripts to
>>> mitigate asses cracking against my instance, but afd and bfd worked great
>>> on it.
>>>
>>> That was ubuntu server, but they had a lot of options.
>>>
>>> -mb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/18/2014 10:19 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2014-02-18 09:55, keith smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Digitalocean.com looks promising. Once you configure your VM is
>>>>> there a control panel for configuring your Vhost & email accounts? Or
>>>>> do you have to do it manually?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> digitalocean looks like a VPS from their FAQ and articles on their
>>>> site.  As such, you'll have to set up your SMTP server, IMAP server, and
>>>> apache yourself.  There are articles on their site about setting all those
>>>> things up using CentOS 6 and Ubuntu.  If you want a "control panel" like
>>>> cpanel, then digitalocean might not be the right hosting provider for you.
>>>>
>>>> digitalocean looks like it'd be slightly cheaper than rackspace for me
>>>> running this little crow202.org site.  They don't offer Gentoo as an
>>>> install option though, which means I probably won't switch.
>>>>
>>>>
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