Inexpensive and Easy Site hosting

from Joseph Reagle <[email protected]>, Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:27:55 -0400

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robert

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None.

I've been looking into external site hosting and have come across the
following services:
http://www.2mhost.com/2m2003/special.html
http://www.cornerhost.com/services/#shell

These are linux hosts with lots of storage, bandwidth, and shell/script
capabilities for $100-200. Pretty good deal, the problem is I like
maintaining all of my configs, virtualhosts, rewrites, and such in a single
httpd.conf . These sites have one apache running for all their clients, and
I could do what I'd want to do, but I'd have to break out my omnibus
httpd.conf into .htaccess for the various virtual hosts. I haven't tried
this, maybe it's easy but I'm worried about having to change various paths,
and having these files spread all over.

1. Does anyone else have content on such a host, is it hard to manage your
sites without httpd.conf but with .htaccess?
2. Any recommended providers? (I've also found:
http://webhostingtalk.com/
)

Re: Inexpensive and Easy Site hosting

from Robert CHERAMY <[email protected]>, Fri, 18 Apr 2003 19:00:59 +0200

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None.

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reagle

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003, Joseph Reagle wrote:
> I've been looking into external site hosting and have come across the
> following services:

> 2. Any recommended providers?

I have been using http://www.vd-server.de/bestellen.php for a month or
so. These are virtual linux servers (by default Debian) based on UML.

Their web is written in german, but there will be an English version
soon. You can already have a look, you won't need a web translator to
understand the characteristics.

My mini-server runs pretty well (no downtime as for other virtual server
providers), is in Germany (I use it as secondary MX and NS) and the
admins are fast (my server was set up in a few hours, the admins are on
#vd-server@IRCNet althought the recommended way to ask for support is to
use the web interface). Payment can be made throught Paypal.

If you need help with german, you can ask me, althought I think the
admins speak english.

Cheers,
--
tibob