Hivemind: hosting

[prog]

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

[kyroraz.livejournal.com]

Dreamhost has been generally good for me, but I actually am going to be getting a futurehost (http://www.futurehost.biz/vps.htm) account so that I can run some higher end applications such as Firebrat and other things that I know will eventually kill Dreamhost. Dreamhost is kinda picky on the ram thing -- it's the only negative thing I've heard about them and daerr is the only one that has had the conflict with them on that level, I've not had processes killed yet. So, right now, from a hosting perspective, big stuff on futurehost, small stuff on dreamhost.

[daerr.livejournal.com]

And yes, I have a futurehost account too. Thus far it's seemed pretty nice to me. I haven't tried it fully loaded yet though. I'll have more to say in the next weeks and months.