I am looking for a reliable webhosting provider, which supports recent versions of Apache and Perl, at least, and which has large amounts of storage space (e.g., 5-10 GB or more).
Any recommendations?
Thanks!
dmm
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Seems to be somewhere around what you're looking for. Hope that helps :)
dmm
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HTH!
They were fully automated, to the point that I could sign up and start loading up my site the same day without ever speaking to a human. About the only think I ever needed to speak to anyone about there was transferring my domain. Now, I think they've even been able to automate that for the more straightforward cases.
However, I think I can do better. Bluehost would be perfect if I could be sure of their reliability: 10GB of space for $6.95 a month.
The site I am moving is a document archive -- sort of an online snapshot of part of the office file server for online reference for the principals of the organization -- so space is paramount, but I also need a late-model version of Apache to support some features the site was originally built with before being moved to the present providers (who only support 300MB on Apache 1.3.x for way too much money).
dmm
Procrastinate NOW! Don't put it off... --Ellen Degeneres
In addition to the above answers, consider renting your own server. Companies like http://rackspace.com/ and http://www.servepath.com/ (was rack shack) will rent you a whole server with hosting starting at under $100 US a month. It's nice because you can do what you like to the server, but they replace bits when they break.
I used to have a rack shack server and was very happy. I have friends who had quite a few rack space servers for a number of years and were happy with the support.
Another similar option is virtualized hosting services that give you full root access to a virtualized server running under xen or similar. I can't for the life of me remember any company names however.
Don
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I didn't see this when it first went through, but http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net has done well by me—they don't have a fixed monthly fee, you're billed strictly your resource consumption, and at what seem to me to be quite reasonable rates.
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