[SWLUG] Linux hosting in South Wales

[Peter Prior]

Hello darling.

pbhj wrote:

> So basically Gareth has a reseller account with some hosting company 
> based in Hfwest? More probably in this instance has a Debian (or 
> freeBSD, based on Diogel logo?) coloco server there. There are a few 
> places using writemedia (eg nuqe.net which has a similar dearth of 
> info about hosting). Note that writemedia doesn't include SSH access 
> in it's list of hosting features. This is usually a high cost extra 
> with commercial hosts so a personal connection might be your best bet 
> on this price wise. Of course if you go hacking around and get there 
> IPs banned you might get a punch on the nose!

Stand up dear, your voice is muffled.

You seem to have got connectivity confused with hosting.

Say for example you get a vserver.. a nice virtual machine you have full 
control over.
IIRC:

Debian and Fedora images are available (not sure about the logo thing - 
thats like saying microsoft employees slant at 15 degrees because there 
logo does.  Diogel being welsh and wales having a dragon might be a 
closer bet)
.
I said writemedia provide the CONNECTIVITY.  BT provide connectivity.  
Pipex provide connectivity - Diogel owns the servers, which are then 
colocated at writemedia.

>
> Not that that's a problem, but that would explain why diogel doesn't 
> mention hosting as one of it's [his] services. After a search of the 
> site it appears that it's £20 per month (£240 pa!!!) but I don't know 
> if that includes SSH and all. How important is it that the site is 
> physically located in Wales?

Naturally, as already stated, with root on a vserver you get full access 
to the server.  You can install whatever you want.  Mysql, plone, PHP, etc.

>
> How much does diogel charge, I might be interested myself.

Maybe you should use the contact link on the site?

>
> Incidentally if anyone out there is associated with writemedia - your 
> web pages need some serious work. Gareth's is quite a nice basic plone 
> site though.

I can think of a few other things that need 'serious work'....

>
> pbhj
>
> PS: 
> http://samspade.org/t/whois?a=www.writemedia.net&server=auto&_charset_=UTF-8&btnGo=Whois 
> <http://samspade.org/t/whois?a=www.writemedia.net&server=auto&_charset_=UTF-8&btnGo=Whois> 
>
>
> PPS: I'm *not* associated with any of these companies / people; you 
> could use www.communimedia.com <http://www.communimedia.com> (which I 
> am associated with) but it doesn't meet your requirements and I expect 
> it's over priced for your purposes. Pick me! Pick me!!
>
> :0)>


Haven't seen PS and PPS in emails since frames and rotating skulls were 
commonplace.

>
> Sorry I wittered on ... not wanting to offend BTW, HTH.

You didn't.  You just didn't read what people wrote.

Pete

>
>
> Peter Prior wrote:
>
>> Try http://www.diogel.com
>>
>> They offer vservers (root on a virtual machine) as well as normal apache
>> virtual hosts, etc.
>>
>> I use them to host several sites and find them to be very reliable.  The
>> servers reside in haverfordwest, and connectivity is provided by
>> writemedia.net
>>
>> Diogel is run by Gareth Bowker (who is on this list).
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> 'o-Dzin Tridral wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope this is not too far off-topic ...
>>>
>>> I'm interested in finding a linux host for a website, e-mail and 
>>> database, possibly one with ssh, cron, content management, wiki, 
>>> plone etc.
>>>
>>> If possible (and if not too expensive) I'd like to sign up with 
>>> someone local.
>>>
>>> Are there any businesses in South Wales who provide hosting 
>>> facilities?  Does anyone have any recomendations?
>>>
>>> many thanks,
>>>
>>> 'o-Dzin
>>>
>>>
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