[sclug] good vfm hosting providers?

[Tom Dawes-Gamble]

Hi,

There is also room on the sclug.org.uk server if your interested please
contact me off list or at the Meeting this evening.

Tom.

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 23:30 +0000, David Rice wrote:
> Hi John.
> 
> If you're looking for nothing too fancy, but gets the job done - I can 
> supply web hosting for you.  I have either room on my fully Open Source 
> virtual server in london, or off my Red Hat server in US.
> 
> Let me know if you're interested.
> 
> I supply the linux part of http://sqn.ac for an idea of prices/features
> 
> cheers
> 
> Ricey
> 
> 
> 
> John Stumbles wrote:
> > Sprog's just registered himself a domain name (jmetron.com) with 
> > 123-reg but found the thrown-in free web hosting only gives him a 
> > mickey mouse site-builder gui, no ftp. I've been humming and haaing 
> > about buying some hosting (sadly the black cat got eaten by a mythic 
> > beast :-)) so thinking about a cheapo commodity hosting package. Any 
> > heads up on good providers to go with, and what to look/watch out for?
> >
> > Just basically a reasonable amount of web & email space and as little 
> > frontpage/exchange bollards as possible. Just want to register a few 
> > domains, point them at web and mail servers and push web pages up to 
> > them / pop mail off them.
> >
> > Looking at 123-reg's offerings (http://www.123-reg.co.uk/web-hosting/) 
> > I can see for starters:
> > * no php (don't know if I'd want this, though I'm thinking I'd like to 
> > run a mediawiki which I think wants that and mysql, so maybe a bit 
> > ambitious for a budget hosting package)
> > * doesn't say anything about limits of mailbox sizes
> > * doesn't say how they count the 15 or whatever mailboxes, whether you 
> > can point your domain name at the mailbox(es), any server-side spam 
> > filtering
> > * what happens if you (your site visitors?) go over your data transfer 
> > limit
> >
> >
> > I'm sure I saw a more attractive looking package when I was browsing a 
> > few weeks back but can't remember where now :-(
> >
> >