[Lancaster] Web hosting company found!

[andy baxter]

Cool! Glad you like webfaction.

On 16/11/11 11:49, jonath wrote:
> I've gone with WebFaction in the end.
>
> I gave GoDaddy a try, as their prices were kind of reasonable, but
> they don't support rsync and I had to do my rsync-ing using a rsync
> binary copied to my GoDaddy home account, which didn't work out too
> well. The process kept mysteriously timing out.
>
> WebFaction have provided 100GB of storage, support for SSH, SFTP and
> rsync and the prices are, well . . . pretty much the same as GoDaddy,
> but they offer a discount if your take out an extended contract (say,
> 5 years).
>
> I've found the best way of working out which of the many web hosting
> companies to go for is the following:
>
> * Get independent recommendations from friends
> * Ask potential web hosting companies technical queries and see how they respond
> * Read reviews on-line (although take all of these with a pinch of salt!)
> * Try out one or two web hosting providers (many provide money back
> guarantees or a 1 month trial period)
>
> Quite often the answer to what should be a simple question, "Do you
> support rsync?" would send alarm bells ringing. However, Webfaction
> just came back within a few minutes, "Yep. We have rsync running on
> all our servers."
>
> But now I found myself in an interesting situation: I have this
> account with 100GB of storage allocated but currently only 20GB of
> which is used. I can see about 30GB being used over the next few
> years, but that leaves 70GB just sat around doing nothing.
>
> So . . . here's the thing: I can create additional accounts, which
> will be able to make use of this storage space I've been allocated,
> all within an account completely separate to mine. I provide SFTP/SSH
> details and you're away! So if anyone wants to split the costs
> somehow, I would be happy to come to some arrangement and split the
> storage allocated somehow, perhaps 50/50 or whatever. Anyone
> interested?
>
> jonath
>
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