Ask HN: Hosting for multiple sites

#1

Post by jason_g » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 4:05 PM UTC

Any hosting recommendations for a developer with multiple sites? I have looked at a reseller account with hostgator, rackspace cloud sites and few others.

Re: Ask HN: Hosting for multiple sites

#2

Post by mahmud » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 4:17 PM UTC

How much traffic does each site see? Any decent web server will allow you to do virtual hosting: lighttpd and apache do.

Re: Ask HN: Hosting for multiple sites

#3

Post by jason_g » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 4:55 PM UTC

mahmud wrote: post #2

How much traffic does each site see? Any decent web server will allow you to do virtual hosting: lighttpd and apache do.

Mostly low traffic. I'm just looking for recommendations.

Re: Ask HN: Hosting for multiple sites

#4

Post by olefoo » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 6:18 PM UTC

Go with a low-end VPS from Slicehost or Linode. It's the most friction free option.

Re: Ask HN: Hosting for multiple sites

#5

Post by Mz » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 1:11 PM UTC

I currently use Host Monster. Before that, I used Blue Host. They have very similar interfaces. I moved largely for a price break (but also partly to change domain names) and not having to adapt to a substantially different interface was appealing.