[Lancaster] Web hosting company found!

[serko]

Just wanted to say that I've also moved my hosting to WebFaction after 
reading through Andy's 'quest' for a new web host. My main reason was 
that my previous host 'justhost' had an ugly interface to start with, 
didn't allow django installations and charged extra for ssh access just 
to state a few things that annoyed me. Though I'm in no way an advanced 
web services user (at least until I find some time) from my little 
experience with WebFaction I say it's highly recommended.

serko

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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