My website is hosted on
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| A shared host |
   23% | 121 votes |
| A dedicated host |
26% | 138 votes |
| My home connection |
40% | 214 votes |
| UML |
3% | 18 votes |
| Xen |
3% | 19 votes |
| Total 522 votes |
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My family photos on the testing box in the kitchen.
My community stuff on a shared host. Big problem with my home connection is the slow upload speed and reliability of the DSL link and frequent extended power outages.
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Dan Hunt, St. Brieux Saskatchewan Canada
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Good point, perhaps "main website".
I have around 10 virtual hosts running upon this machine - but this is the main one in terms of time/effort/bandwidth usage.
It's also the one which most people hit.
All are running upon one dedicated host which costs me a fortune, previously they were all running on an UML instance and performed well until a slashdotting.
So they were moved to increase performance. Since then the site code has been optimized and it survived getting linked to by slashdot, and osnews (seperately) without any problems.
Steve
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Alex
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I don't know if I'm unlucky compared to most people (who I guess are in the USA, or other countries) but in the UK it seems difficult to get a home connection which allows home-hosting.
Although I have made small amounts of available via a home connection in the past I don't think that it would scale too well with the poor connectivity I currently "enjoy".
Steve
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Yeah, here in Belgium they cripple the networks too by blocking incoming ports (http and such, < 1024). Some ISPs have started to block outgoing ports such as smtp too, like many US ISPs already do. On the one hand, I'm happy that most virus/spam spreading windows boxes of the ignorant have a harder time filling my mailbox with crap... but it seriously sucks for advanced users. It would make it harder to do security scans from residential lines, too.
And for a static ip connection you basically pay at least the price of an UML/Xen machine, probably because residential ISPs are also hosters and want to make money any way they can.
Just imagine how beautiful the internet could have been if they wouldn't have had to come with terrible kludges such as NAT. Sure, it's nice to have desktops behind a firewall. But you could actually run your own webmail and have access to your files from everywhere.
I have been playing with static IPv6 for about five years already, but I'm sure when(/if) it finally becomes mainstream, it will be just as restricted as current IPv4... ISPs will squeeze the life out of it for a few bucks more.
I always wanted to set up a dedicated server (for myself), but somehow the geeks I know are not into getting one and splitting the costs. It's too expensive for me to justify, considering that it would probably be idle most of the time. Ofcourse, I could host sites for others there. Perhaps, one day, I can shove an old box in a rack somewhere at one of the places I work without anybody noticing... might even be a good way to cheaply start a business... ;)
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My main site is on a shared hoest, using Apache virtual serving.
I also run a secondary site on my home server via ADSL.
I know people using Bytemark UML, and this seems quite popular, and a useful step up from a shared host.
Xen looks cool, but I don't know anyone using it anger yet, perhapse a short article here may help!
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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Bytemark's UML servers were very good for me. I'd suggest upping the memory, but otherwise a good service for a cheap price.
I've looked at Xen, but haven't yet gotten around to writing anything up. There are some good documents scattered about online about it eg this one.
The only complication is that you need your host kernel to be modified - which might cause problems if you're running other patches.
I don't think I could ever go back to having a shared host, unless I could install my own binaries, and Perl modules - not to mention tweak the Apache/MySQL configuration files...
Steve
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Xen wasn't as mature when we set up the UMLs, but doing it again....
I heard through the grapevine that Bytemark were also looking at Xen. However I think our performance issues with UML are because we didn't use raw partitions for the hosted filesystems.
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That's a show stopper for us. However it's promised that with Xen 3.0 there will be a good support for SMP both host and virtual systems. Looking forward and later on into it.
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I read on the list xen-users that some ISP are now offering Xen hosting (can't remember the names), so I think current stable version (2.0.7?) is ready for production use.
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You can pick up (an admittedly aged) dedicated server for about ten pounds a month, rising to perhaps fifty for a new box from a big company.
Many don't sell outside of Germany, but www.hetzner.de do - 20 pounds per month for a AMD XP 2000+ with 1 gig of ram. Nice :)
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greets!
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Felipe Sateler
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I host my website (not much to see there yet, mind you) at NearlyFreeSpeech.Net. They offer rates which I could never beat by hosting anything myself. In their words: “1GB/$1 hosting with no gimmicks.”
This is very convenient. My website has been in development for months. Hardly any bandwidth and storage space has been used so far. Consequently, it hardly cost me anything.
They've also partnered with quite a cheap domain reseller, where I acquired my .US domain for about $7/year. Currently they even sell those for a little over $5/year.
It's quite worth checking out. They include SSH and SFT access which is extremely convenient for me. Their SSH environment contains most tools you could possibly need and when anyone needs anything else, they're usually quick to add it if it doesn't add a security risk. Also, you get your own MySQL process in which you can create as many databases as you like.
It's not often that I like a product or service enough to advertise is freely.
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