The recent discussion about mail access via ssh and ssh tunnels prompts me to ask about list members' experience of commercial hosting services.
I have long since ceased to have any direct responsiblity for publicly accessible servers and my only network is now my home system. As I have said in earlier posts, I don't run 24/7 servers on that network and my only public servers are those provided by my (limited, home user) 1and1 contract. However, I have recently been playing with egroupware and a few friends and colleagues have asked if I could make the poc system I have built at home available on a public server.
1and1 provide good, reliable, fast, mail, DNS and web services, but they also offer virtual servers for the home user at around 15 UKP pcm. The other likely looking candidate is fasthosts who are a lot cheaper, have no traffic cap, but have different limitations.
What I am looking for is a good quality commercial provider offering the following:
root ssh/sftp access to a linux server apache/mysql/php/perl (preferably with no limit on the number of mysql databases, but I'd settle for 5 rather than the typical 1). ssl certificates for the webserver personal DNS management ideally local email server not too many restrictions on the outbound traffic (e.g. I'd like to be able to ssh out as well as in...)
Any recommendations?
TIA
Mick
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mbm mbm@rlogin.net wrote: [...]
What I am looking for is a good quality commercial provider offering the following: root ssh/sftp access to a linux server apache/mysql/php/perl (preferably with no limit on the number of mysql databases, but I'd settle for 5 rather than the typical 1). ssl certificates for the webserver personal DNS management ideally local email server not too many restrictions on the outbound traffic (e.g. I'd like to be able to ssh out as well as in...)
Any recommendations?
Bytemark and ContextShift would be the first ones I'd look at for such a service. I'm not a big fan of 1and1 and I avoid fasthosts. I thought fasthosts had appeared on drake.org.uk's feckwits category, but I can't find it now.
Regards,
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:12:34 +0000 MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop allegedly wrote:
Bytemark and ContextShift would be the first ones I'd look at for such a service. I'm not a big fan of 1and1 and I avoid fasthosts. I thought fasthosts had appeared on drake.org.uk's feckwits category, but I can't find it now.
Many thanks - they look good (and cheap!)
Mick
(Why the antipathy towards 1and1?)
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mbm mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop allegedly wrote:
Bytemark and ContextShift would be the first ones I'd look at for such a service. I'm not a big fan of 1and1 and I avoid fasthosts. [...]
(Why the antipathy towards 1and1?)
Because I've used them and helped move clients away from them, which they make more difficult than other providers (with the possible exceptions of Network Solutions and Fasthosts, in my experience).
Also, I've recently noticed that 1and1 seem happy to leave customers paying no-longer-offered uncompetitive rates when they reduce their prices or add to their packages - a sharp practice taken from the banking sector, perhaps - and quote introductory offer prices rather than long-term rates - telecom's favourite sharp practice.
Battle-scarred,
Some time ago I asked:
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:07:16 +0000 mbm mbm@rlogin.net allegedly wrote:
What I am looking for is a good quality commercial provider offering the following:
root ssh/sftp access to a linux server apache/mysql/php/perl (preferably with no limit on the number of mysql databases, but I'd settle for 5 rather than the typical 1). ssl certificates for the webserver personal DNS management ideally local email server not too many restrictions on the outbound traffic (e.g. I'd like to be able to ssh out as well as in...)
Any recommendations?
MJ Ray made a couple of recommendations, including Bytemark. I thought I'd just let the list know that I eventually settled on Bytemark. Excellent chaps, excellent service, highly responsive customer focus. And cheap too.
Recommended.
Mick
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