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

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

I have a rimuhosting.net VPS in speed of light land. It works fine. I am likely to transition my own personal stuff to a VPS "eventually".

my personal stuff is still running on an ancient machine (Pentium Pro 200 wih 128MB) with a questionable boot drive. Fortunately for me (and the sites I host) they are all static HTML, no SQL at all. Otherwise, the machine would have fallen over years ago (still do about 75GB/month of traffic).

The real issue is figuring out how much RAM you need. I don't think you site gets enough traffic to worry about CPU or transfer.

[daerr.livejournal.com]

I looked at Rimuhosting but for the memory you get, futurehost is way way cheaper.

For your pure static HTML, personally I'd just do Dreamhost. For static hosting they seem pretty good.