Hi Flavio,

If a website is just a bunch of static html pages, pretty much any
hosting site will do fine.  Usually that's not the case.  We augment the
html with some kind of scripting language.  Perl is popular, but I am a
gawk fan myself.  To each his own.  Unfortunately, your choice of
hosting company generally dictates which tools you can use -- even which
version of those tools.  Then when you want to move your website from
one host to another, the set of tools changes, and you have to port your
code.

Most of us linux geeks like to choose our own tools, and that is
probably the biggest single reason we want root access.  But a webhost
can't allow everybody to have root access and install whatever they
want, and if they did you wouldn't want your site hosted there.

UML seems perfectly suited to this situation.  I can have my own virtual
machine to install the tools I want, and set up my website the way I
want it.  Then I should be able to move that entire virtual web server
to a UML-based web host by uploading just a couple of files.

--Jeff


On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 15:09 +0200, Flavio wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> if I did understand correctly you are looking for a hosting service
> providing more then (or about) 1 GB of space. (Maybe a root filesystem
> requires more space than a simple web site).
> There are a lot of web hosting companies supplying for less than that
> space. They usually are very expensive only
> for traditional web hosting (about 120€ or 120$ for a year). I guess
> what you are looking for would be so expensive.
> 
> Maybe I didn't understand all your purpouses but, what are the
> advantages for doing that?
> Easy backups and restores of your website?
> More features???
> 
> If you have a simple website, get rid of a big root filesystem to
> upload and think only to your website directory!
> 
> ;)
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Flavio
> 
> 2007/5/15, Pipkins, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >
> > I want to use UML to develop and test a website  locally (offline), and 
> > then deploy it by uploading the backing file (and maybe  cow file) to a 
> > hosting company.  I'm looking for hosting companies that are  set up well 
> > to support this kind of development cycle.  I'd like to have  more than one 
> > so that, for example, if the price hikes up on the one I'm  using, I can 
> > easily relocate the website to a new host.
> >
> > If you're doing this or something similar and have  hosting companies you 
> > would recommend, I'd love to hear about them.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Jeff P.
> >
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