I also happen to host a bunch of sites for free for friends. It is a cPanel based server and I actually perform daily, weekly and monthly backups to a secondary drive in the machine. It is at a real datacenter and I actually OWN the hardware. You can meet me or already have. You do need your own registrar however. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:35 AM, rachel lyra hospodar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachelyra@gmail.com">rachelyra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>For anyone who is interested in paying an actual person for their web hosting / mailing list etc needs, check out <a href="http://speedypuppy.com" target="_blank">speedypuppy.com</a> it is run by a guy I know, Jim, who answers emails and has helped me with some config stuff I wanted to do that was over my head... but comes with tons of tools and access to do whataver you want yourself.</p>
<p><a href="http://mediumreality.com" target="_blank">mediumreality.com</a></p><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 18, 2011 10:02 AM, "John Menerick" <<a href="mailto:ponies@mayhemiclabs.com" target="_blank">ponies@mayhemiclabs.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> For a bit now, I have been using Amazon AWS EC2 instances for my<br>
> needs. For my hosting accounts, I'm paying $0.00-$0.10 per month<br>> depending on my bandwidth usage.<br>> <br>> <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/free/" target="_blank">http://aws.amazon.com/free/</a><br>
> <br>> It is a great way to learn, by fire and education, on how to do it<br>
> right (right being ones' point of view.)<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> <br>> John<br>> <a href="http://www.securesql.info" target="_blank">www.securesql.info</a><br>> <br>> <br>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, jim <<a href="mailto:jim@well.com" target="_blank">jim@well.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> i use <a href="http://joker.com" target="_blank">joker.com</a> and pay something like $10 per year<br>>> for a domain name.<br>>> i think it's important to register your domain name<br>
>> separately from your hosting provider. the issue is to<br>
>> be able to control your domain name (point it to any<br>>> IP address you wish, move it to another registrar...).<br>>> even if a hosting provider seems to have open<br>>> policies, there's no guarantee those will remain: a<br>
>> new management team or a takeover could change policies<br>>> pretty quickly.<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:36 -0800, Frantisek Apfelbeck wrote:<br>
>>> Hi to All!<br>>>> I've a favour to ask and it is something which I'm not very good at. I've a<br>>>> domain <a href="http://frantisekapfelbeck.org" target="_blank">http://frantisekapfelbeck.org</a> which I've registred with<br>
>>> <a href="http://justhost.com" target="_blank">http://justhost.com</a> and it is also hosted there until 22 January 2011. They are<br>>>> asking for $71.42 for hosting for the next year. I think that it was just $35<br>
>>> last year and it is starting to seem to me a bit expensive. Could someone tell<br>>>> me if there are some other decent but cheaper providers/hosts? I've found these<br>>>> details about my domain<br>
>>><br>>>><br>>>> <a href="http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/frantisekapfelbeck.org" target="_blank">http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/frantisekapfelbeck.org</a><br>>>><br>
>>> so I hope that I can transfer it somewhere else. Once I'm in the process I would<br>
>>> like to change the "interface" to a wikimedia format but that is a different<br>>>> story.<br>>>><br>>>> If anyone can help me with this issue, I would really appreciate it. Please<br>
>>> write to me directlly or copy me if you post to the Noisebridge discuss.<br>>>><br>>>> Thanks a lot,<br>>>><br>>>> Sincerely,<br>>>><br>>>> Frantisek<br>
>>><br>
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