[olug] Basic cheap local hosting?

Mon Dec 5 17:32:37 UTC 2011

I have the 15 meg down residential package, and the equivalent business
hosting is $150 a month with a two year contract. It would be identical to
my $50 plan, except a static IP address and they're not blocking ports.

Neither really costs Cox anything more to provide. But they know they can
gouge businesses, and they have no choice but to pay.

I'm not going to make my url and web server use another port, so unless I
could somehow transparently forward port 80, I think the best solution is
to bite the bullet and sign up for a VPS. Patrick Swartz has contacted me
off list, and he is offering a very attractive VPS offering.

The web page in question is just a guild webpage for Star Wars: The Old
Republic. My wife has already chastised me that we're paying two monthly
subscriptions (including the initial retail purchase of the game). We don't
normally pay MMOs. Adding a monthly VPS cost as well is surely going to be
a point of contention because it is for a game, even though the cost really
isn't all that much.

I will also look at Hostgator since it has been suggested. The three shared
hosts I haven't used in recent years but seem to get suggested frequently
are Dreamhost, Bluehost and Hostgator.

I've just had such bad experiences with shared hosts recently that I'm
reticent to try more. 1and1 is still billing me for a hosting package I
cancelled over a year ago and I'm really not happy with them in particular.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:18 AM, SndChaser <sndchaser at cerebralrift.org>wrote:

> Actually, right now Cox's two year Business Internet Starter contracts are
> going for $75.05/mo.  That really isn't far off what I'm already paying,
> but it only has 1 IP address and is 5Meg down, 1Meg up -- my current seems
> to get 7Meg down, 1Meg up.  If I dumped the cable TV, this would end up
> being cheaper.
>
> George
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 02:24:39 -0600, Rob Townley wrote:
>
>> Maybe less if sign a 5 year contract.
>>
>> On Sunday, December 4, 2011, Jason N <dashrender at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure cox can force you into anything, but I do know they block
>>>
>> inbound port 80 and port 25.
>>
>>>
>>> A business line if you want to host from home costs about $89/mnth.  If
>>>
>> you already pay for a the highest level of service with Cox this won't be
>> much more than you are already paying.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---- "T. J. Brumfield" <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I was under the impression that Cox won't offer a static IP with home
>>> internet, so you have to a pay a fortune for business internet.
>>>
>>> I have considered looking a dynamic DNS service, but I heard that Cox
>>> will
>>> force you into business internet if they detect your hosting a web
>>> server.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  I went for years from one hosting company to another, and in each case,
>>>>
>>> at
>>
>>> some point tech support failed me mightily.  At the last company, after a
>>>> seventeen-day server outage because I couldn't get past tier one tech
>>>> support, I resolved to host my own site.  Just about any old computer
>>>>
>>> will
>>
>>> run Linux well enough for a low-bandwidth site, and now when I need to
>>>> contact tech support, the guy may be a jerk but he takes my problems
>>>> seriously.  It's been five years now and I haven't looked back.
>>>>
>>>> I assume you've got DSL or cable at home; how much to add a static IP
>>>> address?  If static is too pricy, you can always get dynamic DNS thru
>>>> www.dyn.com or elsewhere.
>>>>
>>>>  I need to host a low bandwidth Wordpress site. Really, I don't need
>>>>
>>>>> anything more than a shared hosting account. But everyone I've tried
>>>>> doesn't allow me to do page caching, so performance is pretty poor.
>>>>>
>>>>> I actually just signed up for a hosting service the other day because
>>>>>
>>>> the
>>
>>> sales staff assured me without a doubt that I could do opcode caching. I
>>>>> migrated my domain and site over, only to find it isn't enabled on the
>>>>> server. In fact, pretty much any Apache module I need for that caching
>>>>> plugin isn't installed and they're not willing to install any of them,
>>>>> including some really basic/common modules like mod_deflate and
>>>>> mod_rewrite. The technical staff state that no one should have reason
>>>>> to
>>>>> use those.
>>>>>
>>>>> After migrating this site five times already from one terrible host to
>>>>> another, I'm curious if anyone on this list can recommend a good, cheap
>>>>> service, or if they one of their own?
>>>>>
>>>>> I could rent a VPS through Linode, except that seems overkill for a
>>>>>
>>>> single
>>
>>> Wordpress install that will get minimal traffic.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- T. J. Brumfield
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