[Lancaster] Another web hosting query

[andy baxter]

Hi Jonath,

Webfaction.com are brilliant if you can afford their slightly higher 
charges. It's costing me around 80 pounds a year for 200Gb of storage, 
600Gb of bandwidth, unlimited databases (mysql or postgres) and emails. 
They have ssh / sftp access as standard. Rsync is installed, but you 
might have to run it yourself as a background process (which they will 
probably agree to).

Their web based hosting control panel is written by them, and very well 
thought out IMHO. You have separate sections for 'domains', 
'applications', 'websites', and 'DNS overrides'. 'domains' lets you 
create subdomains and add domains that you own. 'Applications' are 
usually web apps with an install directory, but can also be custom apps 
which listen on a localhost port (which can be automatically proxied to 
a mount point on a website.) 'Websites' connect domains and applications 
to an IP. You can choose separate mount points for all the applications 
you want hosted on a particular domain, and move them around easily if 
you change your mind. 'DNS overrides' let you tweak DNS records in a 
finer way than you can through the 'domains' section.

This may sound complicated, but makes a lot of sense, and is much more 
flexible than CPanel.

Tech support is also good - they are quick to reply and knowledgeable 
enough to be useful.

Altogether I would recommend them highly from what I've seen so far.

andy

On 14/11/11 11:46, jonath wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Following on from Andy's ask for help in recommending a decent web
> hosting company, I now have a very similar query:
>
> Would someone be able to recommend a decent web hosting company?
>
> Requirements seem simple enough:
>
> * GNU/Linux-based (I think they all are these days anyway)
> * At least 50GB of storage
> * Access via SFTP
> * rsync support
>
> Alternatively, if you want to tell me who to avoid, then that might
> help narrow down the search.
>
> I'm currently trying to get answers from iPage and SuperGreenHosting
> regarding my requirements listed above.
>
> Any help / advice / recommendations welcome.
>
> THANKS!
>
> jonathan
>
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