Suggestions on web hosting?

[Alex Beamish]

Hi Alex,

There are pros and cons to doing your own hosting. This isn't an exhaustive
list, but here goes:

Pros:
- really easy to update web site
- install anything you want (is that a pro or a con?)
- no cost for hosting services

Cons:
- additional cost for UPS
- additional time spent hardening server against a variety of attacks
- additional time keeping system software and hardware up to date
- risk of using production machine for development
- lower uptime than professional web hosting
- no redundancy for hardware or network connection
- you're on the hook for 24/7 support

I like paid web hosting because someone else deals with hardware upgrades,
making sure the network is always up, doing system software upgrades,
locking the system down, providing multiple network connections, doing
backups, providing 24/7 power and plenty of bandwidth.

I've used pair Networks (http://www.pair.com) as my web host for a couple of
years, and I'm very happy with them. They also host Perl Monks (
http://www.perlmonks.org) and I'm grateful for that, so any business I can
throw their way, terrific.

-- 
Alex Beamish
Toronto, Ontario
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