[GTALUG] hobbyist web hosting recommendations?

[Daniel Villarreal]

Thanks to everyone who responded with a serious, constructive reply.

I used to work in the industry. When I can have access to shared hosting 
for 1.15 a month for the first year, and 3.24 a month thereafter, for up 
to three web sites, then that seems to me to be worth a look.

Of course, I need to review all these recommendations for companies to 
see what best serves my computing needs.

Thanks again!
Daniel Villarreal

On 12/21/15 17:26, Nigel Auger wrote:
> You may also want to check out dreamhost.com <http://dreamhost.com> if
> you don't mind using a US based service. You get shell access with their
> standard hosting plan and they seem to offer unlimited everything (data
> storage, data use, hosted web sites, users, etc.). You get one free
> domain and, I believe, unlimited subdomains ("something.dreamhosters.com
> <http://something.dreamhosters.com>") which are great for experimenting,
> informal blogging, etc.. I use the shell access regularly for socks
> proxy browsing and watching US based entertainment. If you are not in a
> rush, I suggest waiting for one of their promotions. I literally paid
> something like $10 for an entire year when I first started using them.
> Also, the lifehacker.com <http://lifehacker.com> blog usually reports
> when they have a deal on or when lifehacker themselves have a Dreamhost
> promotion code that readers can use.
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson
> <chris at cfajohnson.com <mailto:chris at cfajohnson.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 21 Dec 2015, John Moniz wrote:
>
>         On 12/20/2015 09:19 PM, James Knott wrote:
>
>             On 12/20/2015 06:28 PM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
>
>                 I'm looking for web hosting, for my own projects...
>                 anyone have any
>                 recommendations?
>
>             Why not make your own?  A Linux box makes an excellent server.
>
>         Making my own interests me, mainly for the experience. I'm not a
>         computer guy but did set up a file server for the house at one
>         point and would like to do it again. Adding a web server would
>         be an interesting project, although it might be too much for my
>         skill level.
>
>
>     Most distros have a webserver installed, if not by default, then
>     selectable through whatever package management tool you use.
>
>     I have Apache running on the laptop I'm currently using as my main
>     machine. I develop my sites locally and then upload them to hostgator
>     when ready.
>
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