And a nice, free webmail solution any Gmail lover will appreciate is
Google's "Google Apps for Your Domain":
https://www.google.com/a/
You just need to edit your DNS records to point to Google's servers.
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> I just remembered.. hostican.com hosted someone's blog that was on the
> Digg.com frontpage a few days ago with some post about "getting into
> the webhosting business", but it was down after just a couple hundred
> diggs, showing some error page regarding bandwidth. Pure irony.
>
> Anyway, I wouldn't put too much weight in those words saying
> "UNMETERED BANDWIDTH" at the top, or unlimited anything anywhere for
> that matter. Often what (far too) many webhosts do, including a few
> popular ones, is -oversell-. They offer -big- numbers for -little
> money- and then when you do get the traffic that requires those
> resources, turns out there was some fine print in the TOS regarding
> CPU load usage and you find out it's "technically impossible" for your
> site to fully use up those bijillion terabytes of promised bandwidth
> because doing so would increase the server load to unacceptable
> levels.
>
> A good thing to do is do a Google search for "<insert hosting company
> here> sucks". ;)
> (Try this one: "dreamhost sucks".)
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Alan
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/hosting.php
> > is what I use and they have been a fantastic host.
> >
> > Extremely affordable, too. :D (Cheap but awesome, like a hobo with
> > mad ninja skills.)
> >
> > -- Alan
> >
> >
> > ps: If you're into serving large files that use a lot of bandwidth, I
> > recommend serving them from Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
> > http://aws.amazon.com/
> > $0.15/GB stored and $0.18/GB of outgoing bandwidth.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Eric Thivierge <eric(at)xsidatabase.com> wrote:
> > > Hey Bernard,
> > >
> > > I use hostican.com for XSIDB. It's probably the best server I've run on
> > > so far. They keep their servers up to date in terms of the CPanel
> > > functions and the webmail software too. I also hear that 1and1.com is a
> > > popular one.
> > >
> > > Hope that helps a bit.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Eric Thivierge, XSI Database Admin
> > > www.xsidatabase.com
> > > eric(at)xsidatabase.com
> > > Forum Username: EricTRocks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bernard Lebel wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for OT. But I'm having problems every once in a while with my
> > > > mediawiki (which contains technical material for XSI users that took
> > > > me time to put together), and now am seriously considering changing my
> > > > site host.
> > > >
> > > > Any good recommendation?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Bernard
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