6 Mar
2002
6 Mar
'02
6:20 a.m.
I need to find a good email/web hosting service. Yes, this is on-topic.
Right now, subatomix.com (my mail server) is a machine in my house,
connected via residential cable modem service. This has some cool factor
for me, but there are disadvantages:
(0) The system has to up and stable 24/7; I can't play with it in ways
that might interrupt that.
(1) The cable modem connection goes down every now and then, sometimes for
several hours.
(2) I'm not too knowledgeable at mail administration; there's a good
probability that this machine is not as secure as it could be.
On top of that stuff, a credible source inside the cable company says that
I will be eventually switched over from RoadRunner to the cable company's
own network. According to the source, areas where the switches are
occurring (mostly those served by @Home, but RoadRunner is next) are
experiencing repeated, prolonged outages.
So I need list members' recommendations on a good email/web hosting
service. If you work for such a service, feel free to suggest it if it is
a good service. What I want is:
(0) Email hosting for 5 addresses at subatomix.com. It needs to handle
several hundred emails per day (peak) and the occasional large file mailed
to me.
(1) Web hosting for my as-yet-unfinished personal web site. The largest
part of the site will be an exposition of my collection like that of many
others here. I plan on having a lot of pictures, and the service needs
the capacity to hold them. (See it *is* on-topic).
(2) Encrypted communications, or at least my passwords not sent over the
network in cleartext.
(3) The servers running some UNIX and administered by competent people.
(4) A flat fee.
(5) If I use their DNS servers, the ability to point foo.subatomix.com to
a certain IP address.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com
6 Mar
6 Mar
7:05 a.m.
As a counterpoint (see below):
Jeffrey S. Sharp said:
On top of that stuff, a credible source inside the cable company says that
I will be eventually switched over from RoadRunner to the cable company's
own network. According to the source, areas where the switches are
occurring (mostly those served by @Home, but RoadRunner is next) are
experiencing repeated, prolonged outages.
I was just switched from @Home to my local cable company's (insight
communications) network, and it's actual been more stable and reliable then it
was before. @Home kind of sucked, but I've been happy with insight's service,
at least so far -- it's been about a month...
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
7:32 a.m.
pair.com has been great for me. And if you want your own server, try
rackspace.com. I chose them for a NHTSA project that demanded 24/7 server
availability. They have 11 backbone providers coming in to the site, IIRC.
--John
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jeffrey S. Sharp
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 12:20 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Hosting Recommendations
I need to find a good email/web hosting service. Yes, this is on-topic.
Right now, subatomix.com (my mail server) is a machine in my house,
connected via residential cable modem service. This has some cool factor
for me, but there are disadvantages:
(0) The system has to up and stable 24/7; I can't play with it in ways
that might interrupt that.
(1) The cable modem connection goes down every now and then, sometimes for
several hours.
(2) I'm not too knowledgeable at mail administration; there's a good
probability that this machine is not as secure as it could be.
On top of that stuff, a credible source inside the cable company says that
I will be eventually switched over from RoadRunner to the cable company's
own network. According to the source, areas where the switches are
occurring (mostly those served by @Home, but RoadRunner is next) are
experiencing repeated, prolonged outages.
So I need list members' recommendations on a good email/web hosting
service. If you work for such a service, feel free to suggest it if it is
a good service. What I want is:
(0) Email hosting for 5 addresses at subatomix.com. It needs to handle
several hundred emails per day (peak) and the occasional large file mailed
to me.
(1) Web hosting for my as-yet-unfinished personal web site. The largest
part of the site will be an exposition of my collection like that of many
others here. I plan on having a lot of pictures, and the service needs
the capacity to hold them. (See it *is* on-topic).
(2) Encrypted communications, or at least my passwords not sent over the
network in cleartext.
(3) The servers running some UNIX and administered by competent people.
(4) A flat fee.
(5) If I use their DNS servers, the ability to point foo.subatomix.com to
a certain IP address.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com
10:24 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, John Chris Wren wrote:
pair.com has been great for me.
Thanks for the help. I think I'm going with pair. I've had quite a
number of people recommend them. They offer everything I want, and their
prices are extremely reasonable.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com
1:52 p.m.
I am biased, but am one of the admins for a hosting service. I think we
offer pretty good pricing and some of the best service around. We're small
so we can control things easily and we shun M$. :)
Check us out, if you want: http://www.binhost.com
Nathan
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