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I'd go with a VPS, then it will be a learning experience as well (if that's what you want) and you can use it for other things and play around with new stuff. Prgmr, Linode, EC2 (A reserved micro instance is dirt cheap). If you just want to host a site, I've also had a great experience with Hostgator, although YMMV.
All my static and newLisp based sites are hosted on a Raspberry Pi. The Pi has enough power to handle blogs or small traffic sites. I use no-ip.org to get a static address for the Pi at home.
If you are using Wordpress or another PHP based CMS then NearlyFreeSpeech.Net can't be beat.
And they'll stand up to censorious governments: http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2012/10/06/official-uk-gove...
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We track what people are saying about web hosting companies on Twitter to see who people are happiest with. It's not a perfect system but what we're trying to do is create an objective and transparent way to compare these companies which I felt this industry truly lacked. Maybe it will help you compare some of your options, we track Media Temple (http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/23/mediatemple/) and GoDaddy (http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/34/godaddy/) as well as many other big companies mentioned in the comments (Linode, Heroku, RackSpace, ASO, etc).
All my static and newLisp based sites are hosted on a Raspberry Pi. The Pi has enough power to handle blogs or small traffic sites. I use no-ip.org to get a static address for the Pi at home.
I used to be with Media Temple and I never really had an issues using them, it was their Grid Server offering and pretty decent for the price. After a while I yearned for more control and power, so I moved to a 512mb Linode VPS plan which including their excellent backup plan costs me $25 per month. I host around 12 sites (mostly Wordpress sites) and it can handle everything that has been thrown at it thus far. Keep…
I used to be with Media Temple and I never really had an issues using them, it was their Grid Server offering and pretty decent for the price. After a while I yearned for more control and power, so I moved to a 512mb Linode VPS plan which including their excellent backup plan costs me $25 per month. I host around 12 sites (mostly Wordpress sites) and it can handle everything that has been thrown at it thus far. Keep…
Do you have any tips for setting up a new VPS? I just got one recently. I know my way around Apache, but I've never run a mail server before, so I'm reluctant to move my domain until I know that I won't miss any emails in the process. (I'm using Ubuntu Server 12.04)
Fortunately, you're in luck. I learned everything about managing a VPS from Linode's own excellent documentation. This is the guide I used for setting up mail: http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/gateway-ubuntu-10.10... — bit out of date, but still relevant I am pretty sure and worked for me when I needed it.