My wife’s blog has become far too popular for my current server configuration. So the time has come to relocate the handfull of sites and blogs I run for my circle of friends out of my basement.
Where should I move? Feel free to email me suggestions. I’ll sumarize.
I’ll need ssh, apache, perl, php, unix shell, vhosts, mysql, etc. etc. I don’t particularly feel the need to control an entire machine; so virtual hosting is ok. I have some preference for FreeBSD. I assume I’m looking for a vendor who has high economies of scale, but is still passing those onto his customers.
Beware – hosting is a market for lemons, IMO, at least:
http://www.dedasys.com/articles/webhosting_market_lemons.html
Nice essay. I love all those terms the economists have for various troubles markets suffer; it’s amazes me that markets actually work at all once you have the total set of them in play. There is some objective data on hosting providers: http://xrl.us/ku7h
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Cheap, fast, B.S.-free, and nerd-friendly.