You could always go with DynDns if you want to host your development sites on your own machine and avoid that $15 charge from AT&T. I've been happy with their free service for keeping a static address mapped to my dynamic IP for external SSH access.<br>
<br>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@ayendesigns.com">jeff@ayendesigns.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">I'm moving this here
because the question has morphed into one only marginally assocated
with development. I have a shared hosting account with 'unlimited'
domains and 25 database max. I have a few clients I host, and several
for which I keep a test version of their site up for making changes
before rolling them out. Plus I have my site and a blog, etc. I
received a letter saying that they now have a policy of 1000 tables max
per hosting account. I was at 2200. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">They don't do VPS, and
if they did, I don't know whether the limitations would go away. But if
I get a second hosting account, it's not just a mv in ssh, it will be
download, upload, repoint the domains, etc., same as if I move to
another hoster or to a VPS. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">I'd appreciate thoughts
on whether I should do that, or consider a VPS... 2 shared hosting
accounts is only $200/year. I thought about getting a static IP here
and move the test sites here along with my own, but AT&T charges
$15/month for that, which is more than double the cost of an additional
hosting account.<br>
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