Moving Web Hosting

[David Thornton]

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On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:20 PM, ted leslie <ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> There are many possibilities, I think you need to define a budget
> first ("not exactly flush"  = x$/month ?).
> I use a small instance a rackspace (cloud instance) so full control of
> OS (root account, etc), its 11$/mon, for 256MB ram, 10gb hd,
> and 3ghz type cpu. Of course with linux its amazing what you can run
> on 256MB ram.
> You can get 2-5 times more ram/hd then this for same price with a
> shared host, but also might be bw quaility issues, etc.
> This gives you at least one idea of a direction to take and its price.
>
> Amazon has a free linux small instance for a year, but since its a
> shared cycle sneaking instance, in my experience, it goes away
> about 5% of the time (when it just can't sneak any cycles), which
> makes it useless unless a hobby site. If you go to non-cycle stealing
> minimal instance, you are about the same as RS IIRC. Having said that,
> I run a full windows server, mysql db on a tiny amazon instance (for
> free),
> maybe linux would fair better when the cycles get grounded.
>
> -tl
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Maureen Thornton <maureen-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > A small site with blogging and email needs to move pronto to a new
> > hosting facility -looking for new hosting site and help transitioning.
> > This is for a friend and not only has her hosting service disappeared
> > but she is not exactly flush finance wise.  Any one got ideas?
> >
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