On 2010-06-13 14:20 , Dario Bonazza wrote:
This said, I have the feeling that $600.00 a year is way too much for a domain and a host (I spend around $35 a year for mine) and... what else? Is there a costly software license and/or other features to pay? Perhaps I miss something essential here. What do the IT folks have to say?
the cheap rates people get for personal sites are for shared servers which have low resource allocations, little support, occasional downtime ... this works fine for the typical small website, but fails utterly once such a site gets a high-traffic day, or needs major support
$50/month is not an uncommon price for a somewhat busy virtual private server (VPS) which is a step above shared hosting and needed for good performance on a database-backed website with moderate traffic; another thing one might get for that kind of money is great support and/or very high uptime
however a mailman list is a bit of a special case -- i don't know how its resource needs compare to websites; mailman is built into a lot of cheap hosting plans, but PDML's traffic may (or may not) be more than one should expect such a plan to handle
also beware the cost of oversolving the problem -- the time and effort to pursue lower cost hosting could easily outweigh any savings
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