Interesting. I wonder if halfpricehosting.com is related to hosting.com. A bit of history: In the late 90s, an ISP named halfpricehosting.com started up in the basement of the Independence Building in which we (Louisville Magazine) have leased space for about a dozen years. In fact, it began as a single server set up in our storage room by a guy named Jason Heffran (sp?). Soon enough the company outgrew that space and took over most of the basement of the building.
I don't know all the twists and turns it took, but halfpricehosting eventually became Express Technologies, which then bought (and changed its name to) Hosting.com. Their local server farm is in the Hilliard Lyons Building on Muhammad Ali and their offices are in the Meidinger Tower. I believe they also have large server-hosting and colocation operations in Boston, L.A. and other U.S. cities. Halfpricehosting.com may well have been sold along the way to someone else, but it has an interesting history. Another interesting related fact: There is still a massive, humming, never-used machine in the basement of our building that I was told was capable of handling some ungodly amount of data transmission -- several thousand T-1s or something like that. It was installed for halfpricehosting.com but never used. Dan > Another nice local company: > > http://www.halfpricehosting.com/ > > Inexpensive and reliable, just the way things ought to be. > > b3 wrote: > >> I have a website that I currently hosting on my old University >> web- space, and I'm looking to find a different hosting company. >> I already have domain names registered, and have for some time >> now, just forwarding them to the school web-space. >> >> Any suggestions for reliable, cheap hosting services? >> I don't really need anything advanced, just the very basic stuff: >> FTP upload >> the larger the storage space the better >> bandwidth doesn't need to be all that large, as my traffic isn't >> too high, just family and friends really. >> I have no need of extra email accounts or anything like that. >> >> I've looked into a .Mac account, as i'd love to take advantage of >> all of the iLife integration, but for the price, i can't really >> justify the cost of it, and on the trial account that I had (and >> any .mac page I visit) it seems really slow compared to other >> sites, even on the connection at school. Slow servers? >> >> anyway, any cheap web hosting solutions? >> >> rick >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be April 25 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> >> > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 25 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 25 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
