[GTALUG] Web hosting companies providing Linux shell accounts?

[David Ing isss@daviding.com]

@Stewart, my response to "What's a good Canadian web hosting provider?" is
1200 words, plus I wrote on the answer wiki:

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A Canadian web hosting provider should:

   1. have servers located in Canada;
   2. be owned by Canadian citizens or registered as a Canadian
   corporation; and
   3. comply with The Personal Information Protection and Electronic
   Documents Act (PIPEDA)
   <https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/privacy-laws-in-canada/the-personal-information-protection-and-electronic-documents-act-pipeda/>
set
   by the Canadian government (rather than the USA PATRIOT ACT
   <http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/gospubs/tbm_128/usapa/faq-eng.asp>).

A positive feature would be acceptance of payment in Canadian dollars
(rather than a requirement of U.S. dollars).

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I considered 7 alternatives:  Planethoster, HostUpon, Web Hosting Canada,
Funio, Cirrus Tech, Dynamic Hosting, and Hostpapa.

Different people make different decisions, based on their own needs.




On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:05 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk <
talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 11:01 David Ing isss--- via talk, <talk at gtalug.org
> <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     Karen,
>
>     In November 2016, I had changed shared hosting companies.  My search
>     is described at
>     https://www.quora.com/Whats-a-good-Canadian-web-hosting-provider .
>
>
> Can you summarize here, please? Quora blocks content unless you're a
> registered user.
>
> A mostly thumbs-down from me for 1and1, even though I've used them for
> 15 years. They do have Linux shell access, but my complaint is more
> about their use of https certificates as a cash cow: you get one per
> account, linked to one domain. Further certificates cost money, and they
> actively block Let's Encrypt usage.
>
>  Stewart
>
> (accidentally sent that last one off-list)
>
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