[Cialug] looking for new hosting

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:30 PM, jrnosee <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Rapidxen looks pretty appealing too, but for the $7.49 hosting @ 5GB disk
>> space, is that for the OS & site?!  I'd have to look @ my VM config for my
>> dev sites, but I'm pretty sure I give more HD space than that.  What would
>> you configure for an OS that would still give you enough space to host a
>> site?
>>
>>
> Yeah, with Xen (assuming the xen in rapidxen means they use xen) the 128MB
> of RAM would be the OS plus applications. That's enough to run a shell
> account, an IRC bot, a light mail or DNS server, a mostly static (minimal
> php) website or two. Fortunately they do allow swap so you could have some
> fun with that. I'd probably limit Apache to a max children of 10 or so.
>
> You can get a micro EC2 instance with 600MB of RAM for just slightly more
> than that. A reserved instance is $54 one-year fee + $0.007/hour = $115.32
> /year or $9.61/mo + $1/mo for a 10GB disk. If you're a new customer it's
> free for one year.
>
> Tying this back into the original question, the decision between choosing a
> VPS or a shared hosting provider really is, do you want to manage a server
> or not?
>
>

If you want a super low cost VPS option, I have a development server with
burst.net. It's $5.99 /mo or $5.00 if you pay yearly. It's a 512MB VPS that
uses OpenVZ so no swap. Multiple OS choices. If you're interested, use my
refer a friend and I get a month free or something:
https://service.burst.net/aff.php?aff=1511

I've set people up with that and ISPConfig and you can run your own hosting
server pretty easily.

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