[conspire] he.net woes --> seeking ISP recommendations

[Eric De Mund]

Rick, Nick,

Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>:
] Some market research I did two years back, when SF-LUG was kicking
] tires on the virthosting subject (and eventually decided _not_ to go
] that way):
]
] Linode http://www.linode.com/ $19.95/month gets you 80M RAM, 3GB disk,
]     50GB xfer
] Trenden http://www.trenden.net/ $15/month gets you 64M RAM, 3GB disk,
]     75GB xfer
] unixshell# http://www.unixshell.com/ $15/month gets you 64M RAM, 6GB
]     disk, 64GB xfer
] Xen Hosting http://www.xenhosting.com/ 
] Rimuhosting http://rimuhosting.com/ $20/month gets you 96M RAM, 4GB
]     disk, 30GB xfer
] Tummy http://www.tummy.com/Hosting/Virtual/ $25/month, 50M RAM 1.5G
]     disk, 5GB xfer

Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net>:
] Linode has upgraded its plans several times since then.  
]
] http://www.linode.com/products/linodes.cfm lists the $19.95 plan as
] 300MB RAM, 10GiB disk, and 200GB/mo transfer. The bandwidth is not a
] hard limit, but you will pay overage on any month you exceed it.
]
] And, I should point out, passed the upgrades on to existing users. I
] have the largest plan in the set, which started out as a 256MB model.
] It's been upgraded each time caker upgraded the plans, and now it's a
] 1200MB plan. People who signed up for the 64MB model in 2004 would
] today have 300MB (more than the largest plan available when they
] signed on).
]
] The addition of RAM is automatic upon reboot, and there is an in-
] terface for resizing your filesystems up to fill your new partition
] space. This is an unmanaged service, so you do have to do your *own*
] backups, but the resize process is an increase (which is safer) and
] does all the appropriate fsck steps one would do manually.

Thank you a million or these pointers and this detailed testimonial. I
really appreciate it. I've begun looking into linode; they're my #1
choice at this point. I'll probably register a second domain and host
that for a month or three at linode so that I'm not messing up email to
ixian.com if (when?) "the wheels come off" while I'm learning the ins
and outs of e.g. exim4.

Regards,
Eric
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