[rescue] Hosting Recommendations

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:57:13PM -0600, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> I need to find a good email/web hosting service.  Yes, this is on-topic.
> 
> Right now, subatomix.com (my mail server) is a machine in my house,
> connected via residential cable modem service.  This has some cool factor
> for me, but there are disadvantages:
> 
> (0) The system has to up and stable 24/7; I can't play with it in ways
> that might interrupt that.
> 
> (1) The cable modem connection goes down every now and then, sometimes for
> several hours.
> 
> (2) I'm not too knowledgeable at mail administration; there's a good
> probability that this machine is not as secure as it could be.
> 
> On top of that stuff, a credible source inside the cable company says that
> I will be eventually switched over from RoadRunner to the cable company's
> own network.  According to the source, areas where the switches are
> occurring (mostly those served by @Home, but RoadRunner is next) are
> experiencing repeated, prolonged outages.
> 
> So I need list members' recommendations on a good email/web hosting
> service.  If you work for such a service, feel free to suggest it if it is
> a good service.  What I want is:

Patrick toots his own horn:

I am about to offer "personal colocation" of your own system at $65
per month.  Just need to move into my new colo facility.  Probably
about 3GB to 5GB of transfer per month will be included.

If you have a spare box I would suggest stock OpenBSD 3.0 + PF or IPF
to block ports that you know you will never connect to .  Run
sendmail, Apache and SSH.  

An SS10 w/SM51 would be more than enough and quite cool - we charge
extra for VAXes due to power usage though :-) 

For others, I offer "monitor servers" with 1GB transfer and the box
included @ $35 per month.  These are most useful for MRTG servers,
checking connectivity of remote machines, etc.  The boxes are Pentium
166 or so with 32MB RAM and OpenBSD.

> (5) If I use their DNS servers, the ability to point foo.subatomix.com to
> a certain IP address.

Yes, DNS service included.

Email me off list if you need more information.  I expect to be live
sometime in April.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net