I wasn't there for the meeting, but I have been in the situation where<div><br></div><div>1) I have an idea I want to try out</div><div>2) I don't have any idea how much traffic it will generate</div><div>3) I don't want to commit to even five dollars a month (since that rate will sit there and add up, etc)</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is a business called Nearly Free Speech.Net ( <a href="https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/">https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/</a> ) that changes you by the amount you store and the amount of bandwidth they serve for you, and it's very inexpensive. You can use <a href="http://foo.nfsnet.net">foo.nfsnet.net</a> or something if you don't want to have your own domain, or you can get your own domain and they will serve off of that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, it's an option that might match whatever it was that whoever it was wanted :).</div><div><br></div><div>mike<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:42 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apthorpe%2Bpm@cynistar.net">apthorpe+pm@cynistar.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">Michael Reddick wrote:<br>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:56 AM, <<a href="mailto:jameschoate@austin.rr.com">jameschoate@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> This came up at last nights meeting of the Austin Perl<br>
>> Mongers...how to run a site (eg <a href="http://something.com" target="_blank">something.com</a> or<br>
>> <a href="http://something_else.org" target="_blank">something_else.org</a>) without using a hosting service or<br>
>> paying commercial fees.<br>
>><br>
> If you want a cheap solution with guaranteed uptime on the connection and<br>
> with the versatility of doing whatever you want with the box, you can get a<br>
> VPS. I use <a href="http://linode.com" target="_blank">linode.com</a>. It's only $20/month for their cheapest setup which<br>
> is more than enough for most people. I've been very happy with it. You can<br>
> literally have it setup in 30 minutes. And it's an easy way to learn<br>
> sysadmin skills. I use Amazon's S3 to store encrypted backups using<br>
> duplicity. That costs about 15 cents a month.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I'll second the recommendation of <a href="http://linode.com" target="_blank">linode.com</a>. For a number of years I<br>
hosted websites, DNS, mail, Jabber, etc. off an AT&T DSL line (static<br>
IPs, delegated rDNS) and began migrating stuff to a linode virtual back<br>
in November when I moved from Austin to Chicago. My only complaint is<br>
there's no easy way to back up the virtual for porting to a new data<br>
center, or to save the VM locally but it was easy enough to set it up to<br>
use the rdiff-backup solution I'm currently backing up with.<br>
<br>
The big win for me was hardware abstraction; the improved outbound<br>
bandwidth and fast reboot were nice but not as cool as not worrying<br>
about hardware failure.<br>
<br>
I highly recommend getting one's hands dirty with system administration.<br>
It recently helped with a PC disk upgrade - boot with a Knoppix live<br>
CD, a long-running dd command to duplicate the old internal drive to an<br>
external drive, shutdown, swap disks, and reboot. You learn a lot, but<br>
it takes patience and a willingness to break stuff and reinstall.<br>
<br>
"...twisty little commands, all alike..."<br>
<br>
-- Bob<br>
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