From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 13:29:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD26716A401 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:29:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (mail.wmptl.com [216.8.159.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652E143D45 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:29:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2NDTWWf034041; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:29:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <4422A2BC.3090200@wmptl.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:29:32 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Scott I. Remick" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 10.0.0.80 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap FreeBSD hosting? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:29:33 -0000 Scott I. Remick wrote: > Well it seems my "perfect" FreeBSD webhost, which had great service, great > features, and a great support community has been sold-out to a large > webhost consolidation company with a reputation for ruining every company > they buy. They'll also be switching from FreeBSD to Linux. > > Since I desire to "eat my own dogfood" and continue to have my sites and > pages "Powered by FreeBSD" I am back in the market looking for a new > webhost. > > Currently I pay about $8/month for 12GB of storage, 300GB of > bandwidth/month, and 5 MySQL databases. I need at least 4 databases > (preferably more), and currently average 200-300MB/month transfer > (although I peaked last year one month at 6GB for the month, but that's > rare). I currently use 2.5GB but my space needs will gradually increase. > > I'd like to find a comparable plan at a webhost that uses FreeBSD servers. > Pair is out of my league. I've had bad previous experience with iPowerWeb. > Any others? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Personally, I go the dedicated server route; you can get a decent dedicated or semi-dedicated FreeBSD server for less than $50 if you want cheap... average rate runs about $100/month for a dedicated server though. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/