Michael, For cheap, reliable, basic web hosting, LunarPages can't be beat. We pay $100/year and can host multiple sites. Pro: Up-to-date versions of PHP and MySQL, great up-time, and excellent community support. Con: (Very) poor Python support; out-of-date Python environment. www.lunarpages.com
Webfaction offers a step-up in capabilities and scalability, up-to-date Python, and support for long running processes (Django). Monthly pricing begins at $10/month. We're currently moving our LunarPages sites/code to this host. Highly recommended. www.webfaction.com We're also looking at Rackspace Cloud Services ($100/month) and Cloud Servers. Rackspace Cloud Services is a great deal if you have a lot of websites and/or want to run both Linux and Windows based web apps under the same account. The downsides are the minimum price (starts at $100/momth) and their version of Python is years out-of-date (come on Ed, kick some-ass over there!<g>). Rackspace Cloud Servers is a very exciting and (IMO) a more polished alternative to Amazon's EC2 cloud offering. Rackspace Cloud Servers is incredibly cheap when used an on-demand basis, but its not cost effective for full-time use. I expect to be using Rackspace Cloud Servers alot (for backoffice ETL vs. web sites) over the coming year. Malcolm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
