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Try Linode for VPS. their services are vastly superior than mass
shared-hosting providers like 1and1 or godaddy etc...<br>
The service is very reliable and affordable. The UI for admins is
great. You can clone the VPS into new VPS, form a cluster, upgrade
each VPS independently to a new VPS plan, add memory, IPs, backup,
etc.<br>
<br>
Each VPS can have it's own partitions set, unlike in some providers
where you are stuck to one partition. There's support also for
multiple OS/profiles per VPS, rescue OS and rescue SSH box.<br>
They also provide a free decent DNS service. And you can even set up
new logins for your clients, to give them certain permissions on
Linode's admin UI, for example, to create new DNS records for a
certain domain.<br>
<br>
As for control panel software, Webmin+Usermin+Virtualmin GPL is a
opensource/free software solution, with zero cost on the software
itself, only requiring either general linux knowledge from the user
installing it or a linux IT professional to deploy it.<br>
<br>
Webmin provides the panel to manage the machine, Usermin provides
the panel for mail and other data and Virtualmin provides the panel
for virtual server / hosting management, for both admins and
clients. Webmin allows managing an enormous amount of system
daemons/services, from web server, to DNS, mail, Samba/NFS,
GIT/SVN/CVS, ftp, ssh, MySQL, PostgreSQL, linux users and groups,
etc.<br>
<br>
There is also Cloudmin, for virtual machine/virtualization
management. All of them are developed by the same programmer, all
are free, all are written in Perl and self contained (can be setup
in apache, nginx or lighthttpd as well).<br>
<br>
This would of course require Linux as the operating system. Linode
and Webmin provide support for the most common server distros, like
Debian, CentOS, and more generic ones like Ubuntu and Fedora. RHEL
is also supported.<br>
<br>
It goes awesome with Debian 64-bit, using BIND, Apache2, FastCGI,
Dovecot, Postfix, PHP. Other software combinations are possible,
like nginx, lighthttpd, sendmail, qmail, and so on. I would
recommend Debian over CentOS, since it's easier to configure (when
you don't need a Display Manager and related software )and provides
more software and more updated software (ex, PHP 5.2) than it's
counterpart.<br>
<br>
From my own experiences, you can't beat this combination with any
other provider or software.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.linode.com">www.linode.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.webmin.com">www.webmin.com</a><br>
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<!--WISESTAMP_SIG_51457_START--><!--WISESTAMP_SIG_51457_END-->On
10-12-2010 00:08, Mark Ferree wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTimbwEwZfaLSJP8riPZRtX=QAB5Eg7RMOMyMk+g8@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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>
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Mark<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM, <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jeff@ayendesigns.com">jeff@ayendesigns.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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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>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><br>
</p>
<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>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><br>
</p>
<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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