08-25-2004, 04:39 PM
Disclaimer: I work for he.net
Hurricane Electric offers a shared account;
Enhanced: $24.95/mo 5GB storage 100GB traffic
It's a LAMP system (i.e. it runs linux, apache, mysql, and perl) there's PHP and FTP (though I recommend SCP as a better alternative).
Not sure about server side includes - they have them but it may not be the kind you were expecting.
H.E. wouldn't pull the plug if you got slashdotted, but they would bill you for the overage,
which might be even worse depending on your situation. (Of course, if you put the $75 you save
each month into a fund to pay for the overages when they happen, you would probably still come
out way ahead.)
Then there's dedicated servers, and colocation.
Colocation is where you send the hosting company a server, and they connect it to power and the internet.
Dedicated servers are essentially the same, except instead of buying the server, you rent it.
Hurricane Electric offers this, but frankly I think it's not in your price range.
There are many companies out there selling dedicated servers/colocation for under $100 a month.
A google search on "dedicated server" or "colocation" will turn up hundreds.
Beware - there's a lot of truth to the old saw "you get what you pay for".
There are also often hidden costs - signup fees, long term commit, and overage fees are typical gotchas, but there may be others.
Frankly, if you got the savvy to run your own server, I'd recommend getting corporate DSL and putting a server in your garage.
You won't get the 5 nines (99.999% uptime) of a "real" hosting company, but you can control your costs much better and if the site is down for a few hours occasionally, I don't think it would be an unrecoverable shock to your users.
Plus you get a nice fat pipe to the internet for your own use.
-- less is better.
Hurricane Electric offers a shared account;
Enhanced: $24.95/mo 5GB storage 100GB traffic
It's a LAMP system (i.e. it runs linux, apache, mysql, and perl) there's PHP and FTP (though I recommend SCP as a better alternative).
Not sure about server side includes - they have them but it may not be the kind you were expecting.
H.E. wouldn't pull the plug if you got slashdotted, but they would bill you for the overage,
which might be even worse depending on your situation. (Of course, if you put the $75 you save
each month into a fund to pay for the overages when they happen, you would probably still come
out way ahead.)
Then there's dedicated servers, and colocation.
Colocation is where you send the hosting company a server, and they connect it to power and the internet.
Dedicated servers are essentially the same, except instead of buying the server, you rent it.
Hurricane Electric offers this, but frankly I think it's not in your price range.
There are many companies out there selling dedicated servers/colocation for under $100 a month.
A google search on "dedicated server" or "colocation" will turn up hundreds.
Beware - there's a lot of truth to the old saw "you get what you pay for".
There are also often hidden costs - signup fees, long term commit, and overage fees are typical gotchas, but there may be others.
Frankly, if you got the savvy to run your own server, I'd recommend getting corporate DSL and putting a server in your garage.
You won't get the 5 nines (99.999% uptime) of a "real" hosting company, but you can control your costs much better and if the site is down for a few hours occasionally, I don't think it would be an unrecoverable shock to your users.
Plus you get a nice fat pipe to the internet for your own use.
-- less is better.