[vox] webhosting/shell recomendations?

[Dave Henley]

We use Hurricane Electric (www.he.com) in Fremont, CA  ..... I don't know
what they're rates are for "virtual hosting" as we co-lo, but I believe
they're a pretty decent bunch of folks and provide good service.

Best of luck,

Dave Henley
www.nerdbooks.com
911 Washington Blvd, Suite 201
Roseville, CA   95678
916.677.1400 (main)
916.677.1403 (direct)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Merritt" <spam@andcheese.org>
To: <vox@lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [vox] webhosting/shell recomendations?


>
> Rob Rogers said:
> > [sorry if this messages gets sent twice. the first one is "awaiting
> > moderator approval" because I accidentally sent it from the wrong
> > address]
> >
> > I'm looking to switch hosting providers, and was hoping someone could
> > give me some suggestions of companies they've used and liked. I'm not
> > currently doing that much with my hosting... 90% of my bandwidth is
> > used for email, but I have started playing around with the Drupal CMS,
> > and will probably be using it a lot more soon. My main requirement
> > though is something with a full working shell.
>
> I use Linode.com for a small mail and web server. They use User Mode Linux
> to give you full root access to your own (virtual) Linux system. They
> offer a pretty decent range of plans; I use the $20/month one and I've
> found it adequate. You can choose from a bunch of preinstalled distros
> (including Debian).
>
> The one thing to look out for is RAM. The $20/month plan only gives you
> 64M RAM, which may not be adequate if you're planning on running a
> memory-hungry application. I had to get rid of mod_perl in Apache and
> tweak MaxSpareServers downward to keep the system out of swap. After that,
> though, it's been running just fine.
>
> Disclaimer: I have no financial affiliation with Linode.com. I am just a
> customer.
>
> -- 
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