Hivemind: hosting

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Jmac.org web & email has gotta move again, and soon. daerr has been my latest kind host, but his machine is falling apart and he's planning on bailing soon. I figure that, after more than eight years of hoboing this domain around, it's finally time to move it off of FriendlyNet and into the realm of paid-for hosting.

Any recommendations for hosting solutions? I am assuming that, since I want me own MySQL tables and Mason-based websites, I am too much of a control freak for Dreamhost, but feel free to tell me otherwise. (I don't need mod_perl, so long as Mason works.)

I am leaning towards getting a virtual user-mode Linux thing somewhere. They're more expensive, but you can go crazy on them. OTOH you have to do your own sysadminning, and enh.

I politely decline in advance offers to host on your own server or your friend's server or whatnot, thank you anyway. (Unless your friend runs a legit hosting business.) This will support, among other things, my professional identity. I need to be able to yell at someone when it falls over, without feeling like I'm stretching a personal favor thin.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I always hear good things about dreamhost, but then I'm not sure what you need. They did actually answer a friend of mine when she had very technical questions regarding their services, so you might be able to negotiate more control.

[daerr.livejournal.com]

They're (usually) very friendly and responsive but they are not very helpful with hosted applications... that is, they support FastCGI but have undocumented memory limits. They're undocumented and they won't discuss them but they will 'kill -9' your processes if they feel you've exceeded them. What's more, they're not fixed but dynamic in some way, so what's ok one day isn't the next.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Ooh, sexy. Well, I'll add that to my file on them...