web hosting

WEB HOSTING
£20* per year

Offer includes:
500MB of disk space
6GB of data transfer per month
Frontpage extensions version 2002
Unlimited POP3 mail@yourdomain.com
Unlimited mail forwarding mail@yourdomain.com
Email is filtered for Spam and Viruses.
Unlimited subdomains of your domain name
e.g. http://subdomain.yourdomain.com/
CGI-BIN directory
Control Panel
Perl 5
PHP 4
SSI (server side includes)
MySQL Database
phpMyAdmin for MySQL management
SSH access
Full FTP access
Detailed visitor statistics
Close control downflow air conditioning units.
UPS system and Generator back-up

They've been good to me.

I need PHP5/MySQL(or Postgres), shell access. Having a dedicated virtualized machine (user mode linux?) would be nice too) My budget is fairly robust

How would you describe your tomato sauce?

I've pimped for dreamhost before, they're certainly great for my modest needs. If you go for them, use my ID voicelady for a referral, I could really use the $$$. :(

What's good now? Need mac support, decent storage, maybe Wordpress further down the line.

oh and n00b-friendly!

I am looking at Dreamhost but it keeps trying to make me pre-pay for a whole year and I don't want to do that

i use dreamhost, but i don't know enough about web hosting to recommend anything

Did you pay for a year upfront?

for the first year i payed for everything at once iirc and now i'm on the second year and paying month by month

sorry for such a boring q but: does anyone have a gd hosting recommendation. i was using a sort of metered/top up thing, nearlyfreespeech, i use v lil bandwidth but just wanted something p normal + affordable, honestly it doesn't even need to be ~the most reliable~ or anything. web hosting is something i never figured out the lazy default solution to.

The current lazy default imo for totally static web content (no backend or database or anything) is to use AWS S3 and point a domain at it. You sacrifice a lot of flexibility but in exchange you get about as solid web hosting as it's possible to have I think? The other wrinkle is you can't use regular FTP tools to sync you need something that works with the S3 protocol etc. Anyway that's what I'd do.

ty so much but uuugh i am so used to using ftp thru dreamweaver. ty for this advice tho !, lmk see if i can make it work. lazy-default is exactly what i wanted so this is v helpful.

also, just so i have not bumped a boring thread on otherwise absorbing distraction platform ilx w/o adding redeeming social content, when i think of web hosting more broadly rn i rly feel like i cd never buy a regular domain again. like why wd you buy .com or some regional suffix when you cd have .ZONE ? it is a new world

Top picks imo are
.zone
.club
.camp
.academy

.horse

i was looking up tenniscoats a while ago + their website had disappeared so i googled around a lil + found it had just relocated to tenniscoats.blue. like why wd you not just get a .blue ?

Revive!

I just caught up on all the recent CentOS handwringing and since my server OS has been EOL'ed it's time to shop around. I'm considering switching to Linode, but what other web hosts are people using these days?

Vultr cuz I can run OpenBSD on it

my hosting provider has annoyingly dropped support for Symbiosis, which was a neat little command-line system for managing mailboxes, ftp, etc

and now they have EOLed their old Debian install, so I have to..... migrate everything to Debian 10 myself. no thank you. i am getting them to do it for me.

however, i have a choice:

- Debian + Plesk
- CentOS + CPanel

any opinions on this, o ilx hivemind?

anybody?

Since CentOS itself has been EOLed in some respect, go Debian. (I just made the switch myself to a new hosting provider w/Debian 10)

That is very good to know. Thanks Elvis.