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From: Geoff Cox on 22 Apr 2008 02:37 Hello, I'm looking for an affordable linux hosting option for an educational project. This project may well get media coverage and the likelyhood of a high number of hits following a radio broadcast. The project will only last for a few months. Webfusion offer 1.8 GHz Celeron 512 MB RAM 40 GB disk for approx �44 per month. This is a relatively low price (? )but what do you think of the server spec? Any better alternatives in the UK? Cheers Geoff
From: Ian on 22 Apr 2008 02:50 On 22 Apr, 07:37, Geoff Cox <g...(a)freeuk.notcom> wrote: > Any better alternatives in the UK? uk2.net will do you Pentium Dual Core 2GHz/1GB/80GB/10TB per month for £59/month. CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu or Debian. http://www.uk2.net/servers/ Ian
From: Will Kemp on 22 Apr 2008 04:19 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:37:32 +0100, Geoff Cox wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for an affordable linux hosting option for an educational > project. > > This project may well get media coverage and the likelyhood of a high > number of hits following a radio broadcast. The project will only last > for a few months. > > Webfusion offer > > 1.8 GHz Celeron > 512 MB RAM > 40 GB disk > > for approx £44 per month. > > This is a relatively low price (? )but what do you think of the server > spec? Do you need a dedicated machine? And does it have to be Linux? http://csoft.net offer shared FreeBSD hosting, with apache etc, and shell access via ssh. No bandwidth limit and quite a bit of hard drive space. Month by month contracts. They seem to be reliable and tech support is generally very responsive and helpful. They're in Canada though. -- http://SnapAndScribble.com/will
From: Dave Liquorice on 22 Apr 2008 04:44 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:37:32 +0100, Geoff Cox wrote: > 1.8 GHz Celeron > 512 MB RAM > 40 GB disk Massive web site that needs a 40GB disc including the OS. B-) The figure that is most important is how much data/month on what sized pipe (in real terms) they offer with that. It's no good haveing a cheap server behind a small pipe with a low data throughput. The information available from http://www.webperf.net and http://uptime.netcraft.com/ can be enlightening. Have some salt handy, just like any information from the 'net. -- Cheers Dave.
From: Nick Kew on 22 Apr 2008 05:20
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:37:32 +0100 Geoff Cox <gcox(a)freeuk.notcom> wrote: > This is a relatively low price (? )but what do you think of the server > spec? The expensive bit is the data transfer. What you get for that price will produce a negligible load on that hardware. Unless you have something you're not telling us about also running! -- Nick Kew Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book http://www.apachetutor.org/ |