saving money by moving my mail/Web server out of my basement?

[David Cass]

I have a VPS (Virtual Private Server) at Servint (servint.net), and I am 
very pleased with them.

$49 for a server with 10GB storage and WHM (web host control panel), and 
cPanel and 200GB per month transfer.  You can also get raw RedHat 9 without 
the control panel.  They have excellent connectivity and support too.

David Cass

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seth Gordon" <sethg at ropine.com>
To: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 1:08 PM
Subject: saving money by moving my mail/Web server out of my basement?


> For a few years, I've had a Speakeasy account with static IP, so I can 
> serve everything ropine.com-related out of machines in my basement.
>
> After going over our household budget, I'm wondering if there's an 
> alternative that will still give me broad control over my Web site and 
> email (e.g., if I want a certain Apache module installed, I can do it) but 
> will cost less than $70/month.  Since basic DSL[*] from Verizon is 
> $15/month, that means I'm looking for some kind of hosting that costs 
> $50/month or less.
>
> For $20/month, I can get an account at OpenHosting.com and use up to 2 GB 
> of disk space and 20 GB of bandwidth (the base OS and the packages that 
> they've already installed don't count against the disk quota). Does anyone 
> have any comment on this service?  Can anyone recommend other services 
> with similar price ranges?
>
> What are the advantages to me keeping physical control over my server? 
> When I was laid off a couple of years ago, I would tell people who 
> interviewed me for work, "see, that page with my resume is being served 
> out of a machine that I personally administer."  Of course, I have no idea 
> if that made them more likely to hire me.
>
> [*]Since we hardly watch any TV, we don't have cable, so there doesn't 
> seem much point to getting a cable modem...
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