[geeks] website/domain hosting, .mac alternatives

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Nadine Miller wrote:

> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Nadine Miller wrote:
>>> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have any experience with Dreamhost (www.dreamhost.com)?
>> <snip>
>>> Hang around webhostingtalk.com and look at the horror stories.   
>>> There are a lot of other hosts out there with better reliability  
>>> at lesser cost.
>> The problems people have should be tempered with the price and your  
>> intended use of the service - I have the *cheapest* hosting option  
>> they have, turned out to be about $50 for two years with a free  
>> domain registration. My use is for a place to dump random things,  
>> and I don't need 24x7, 365 access, I just need it up the few hours  
>> a month I want access ;^)
>> For a .mac replacement, dreamhost I think it's fine, but YMMV.
>
> No argument there, but he did say hosting, not "file dump".   
> Lunarpages, for example, doesn't allow you to use your shared  
> hosting account for a file dump.  Obviously, that's hard to police  
> if it's small stuff, but if you start using it to handle big files  
> and that usage doesn't "match" your web hosting pattern, they will  
> flag you and ask you to stop.

I don't think I need tons of space for files.

Image storage would likely be the biggest since I might host photos in  
one domain or URL.

I would certainly prefer something that stayed up reliably over having  
a terabyte of storage or something like that.

Fortunately I'm not under pressure to "do something" right now, so I  
can take some time to think about it.

-- 
Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com