| Re: Host recommendations (slightly OT) [message #172488 is a reply to message #172476] |
Mon, 21 February 2011 09:58   |
The Natural Philosoph
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Sam Lowry wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I currently run about half a dozen sites (Most flat HTML, but a few use
> PHP), I'm planning to add another three (PHP based) sites. I could just
> stuck them with my current host, but thought I'd check with the guru's here
> first.
>
> None of the sites need a load of bandwidth, I just need PHP, and MySQL
> databases. I'm in the UK if that is relevant.
>
Consider actually hosting it at the back end of a DSL line on your own
teeny Linux machine.
I have done this for several sites that really are more 'charity and
very local' type sites and by writing careful code/HTML, they are only
noticeably a bit slow on image downloads.
I was considering getting them hosted, but I ran into a few problems in
that some libraries I used were explicitly not to be used for gain etc
etc and the ISPs would not install the paid for or 'free' versions.
There are also often issues with sending email from shared hosts. As
well as getting versions up to date.
I have not found that some of the shared sites I am familiar with have
been any more reliable either.
In short for a small site, the only advantage a shared hosted site has
is a bit more bandwidth than the typical 448K upload of a UK domestic
DSL line.
The advantages of being able to organise your own code, timed backups
between machines and so on, outweighs that in my case. My ideal would be
a hosted virtual machine that I 'owned' but they cost a bit more.
> Any recommendations for good reliable (and not too expensive) hosts?
>
> While I'm here what about domain registration, I normally use Joker.
I've used A123reg and its fine.
>
> ~S
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