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Slash Friendly Hosting Services? 18

Posted by Cliff from the you-may-start-seeing-a-lot-of-these-soon dept.
dfelznicasks: "Hello, I got the bad news from Covad to day: no DSL. I had plans on running a Slash site about political activism, anize.org. So now I am falling back to Web hosting services. I checked on Slashcode but HREF="http://www.slashosting.com">SlashHosting was a little pricey did not offer any mailing lists and was based on FreeBSD. I do not want to start a flamewar but I am comfortable in Linux and plan to move it to a dedicated Linux box within a year so I want to stay consistent. My question is does any one know of a good, reliable, cheap Linux based Webhosting service that is Slash code friendly?" I note that the submittor doesn't mention the SlashHost service which is listed above SlashHosting in the grand-mal list of Slash related sites, but it seems that page has gone missing (it's now a page about Free Academy Training). Are these services the only two players in town or are there other ISPs out there that are, if not Slash friendly, at least not Slash unfriendly.
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  • kevin (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    hanser sucks
  • Hello, I am the current sys admin at ehostingnet.com.. although all the services I currently provide work, I have not launched the site to the public yet. The server currenlty runs RedHat 7.0. What would I have to do in order to make it slash compatible? Anyways, I am here and I will change my server arround for the slash and linux community. Just let me know what to do :) -Joe Chapman bryant8@bresnanlink.net
  • Hello,
    I submitted this question. The site i was refering to was slashhosting.com not the site you mentioned...
    slashhost.com looks like a domain squatter for free academy.com
  • You shouldn't have much, if any, difuculty moving a site between freebsd and linux.

    P.S. Why you dissin' my boy Kevin?
  • Begin shameless plug
    I'm the veep of a hosting company named binHOST.com [binhost.com]. While we've never had anyone want to run Slashcode yet, we'd be happy to work until it worked on our server. We're currently looking to relocate and will eventually have enough rackspace to have more than one machine for anyone who would be looking to colo their own box on a high-speed net. (3 - OC3s and 2-DS3s at the moment, we'll be moving to multiple OC-48s soon.)

    We run RedHat 6.1 (yeah, the GOOD release) and our philosophy is customize, customize, customize. You need something you can't get at any other hosting site? Talk to us. We're here to give you the hosting you need for a price that's reasonable. We have an 800 number and encourage our clients to call and use it. We believe in the power of Linux to provide hosting and the no-nonsense approach to doing it. And that's it, folks. Check us out. If we don't have what you want, ask. Feel free to look other places if you want, we don't claim to do every single thing in the world for hosting, but we'd sure as heck like to make a try at it. :)
    End shameless plug

    On a more philosophical note, why don't hosting companies take time to work out special deals for their customers? We've had so many customers happy just because we did this one or the other little thing to make their hosting work uniquely. *shrug*
    Check us out. binHOST.com - Network Services for the World [binhost.com]

  • Slashhosting too expensive? (Score:3)

    by delfstrom ( 205488 ) on Tuesday November 28, 2000 @02:35PM (#595386)
    If slashhosting.com [slashhosting.com] is too expensive for you, then I suggest that slashcode may not be the right program for your needs. Slashcode is perfect for scaling up to a huge community. It's more complicated, so it costs more to administer slash-based accounts.

    If you need to be able to grow to form a huge community, then you'll need slashcode.

    But if you are talking about a few thousand visitors per day, you should look into any of the following slash-alikes:

    (the above was taken from the Slashalikes [slashcode.com] page on Slashcode.org [slashcode.org])

    Methinks this would have been a better question to ask on Slashcode.org instead of here on Slashdot itself.

  • Nothing but small-time sites are being run on Linux these days

    OK, I'll feed the troll.

    Small-time sites like Google [google.com] and BBC News [bbc.co.uk], for instance?

    --

  • Hello, It is me again the original author of the question. I am hoping that my site will one day grow to need the capabilities of slashcode. "Me thinks" that starting out with a smaller less functional and less flexible program is a bad idea. What happens if I start out with the small one and need to move up to a big one? I have been around computers for long enough to know that it is important to have an eye for the future in regards to scalability. Maybe you have different experiences but i doubt it. Second i do not know what you are infering from my concern about price. Regardless of how many visitors a site expects it seems like a good idea to keep an eye on price: for instance hostway.com is 30 dollars cheaper and (platinum plan): you get 2 gigs more traffic a month 20 more email accounts, a mailing list, ssl, and real a/v. You are not the first person to think that slashcode would have been a better place for this. However the question has been asked on slashcode (remember i looked there originally) and there was little response. I was hoping to have better luck with a broader audience. Unfortunately it was not on the frontpage of slashfot. Me thinks next time you should try and make more informative helpful responses...

  • Slashcode uses mod_perl. If it actually uses the power of it, rather than merely the Apache::Registry speed hack, then you will need a service that supports mod_perl [apache.org].

    You'll also need an isp that supports mysql, or, if slashcode is written to use DBI in a portable manner then at least a service that supports DBI access to some database.

  • question about slashdot (it's on topic, really) (Score:3)

    by Tumbleweed ( 3706 ) on Tuesday November 28, 2000 @10:45PM (#595391)
    How big is the database on Slashdot right now? I'm asking because I'll be needing some intense hosting service sometime next year, and I've no clue how to go about estimating how big the database will wind up growing to. I can see it getting as big as Slashdot's database as far as content goes, maybe bigger.

    So - folks at Slashdot - how much diskspace is the database taking up these days?
  • Okay this was stupid. I have to respond to this one. First of all maybe you still use a 57k modem oh wait there are not 57k modems. Crappy joke aside more and more people are using the internet at school and at work were ethernet and a t1 are the norm. People do not want to wait for a web page to load. The only reason why this would be a good idea is if most people were still using modems and they were using modems that they could not saturate my connection with one access. I don't know where to end that was one of the dumbest replies I have ever heard.
    Lets think about it. BTW doing a little thinking is probably a better way to learn anything.
    A dedicated dialup account probably still costs 20 dollars a month. For that much you can get a very decent amount of web hosting.
    Next time you want to put down someones idea because you are an idiot don't pick mine. I feel very strongly about my site and honestly feel that I can help to make a difference.

  • Operating systems are not religion. You will not be dammed to eternal torrment by choosing the wrong one or using several. It is in fact good for your resume to learn multipul OSes.

    Besides, which linux do you prefer? redHat, Debian, and slackware are three very different distributions that come to mind. All are nominally linux, and all run mostly the same code underneith, but they are very different to set up and work with. FreeBSD is just anouther one.

    If someone gets slashcode working and stable on NT (2000), and they are cheapest, then use them. I don't like microsoft either, but if it works don't break it. If you need something that NT can't provide (remote admin) then don't use it. FreeBSD and linux are similear enough that there is no advantage of one over the other in features. (Linux supports more hardware, but freeBSD is generally slightly more stable on the hardware it is stable on - since you choose the hardware, you can choose what works best. a bad choice of freeBSD hardware and good linux hardware will make linux better, and vise-versa)

  • I'm an admin at (broken html spew)

    If you're not cautious enough to click "Preview" before putting your company reputation on the line, you're not certainly not careful enough to handle my servers.

  • As the admin of SlashHosting.com [slashhosting.com] I would like to clear some things up.

    1. We do offer mailing lists. Just ask.

    2. We run FreeBSD, but for a virtual hosting user the difference between Linux and FreeBSD is nil.

    3. Our FreeBSD machines will run all Linux binaries, unmodified.

    4. We will be offering within the next few weeks, slashcode as a package on our RedHat Linux private servers (yes, root access and control panel), starting at under $90 a month. If you are interested in a private server, let us know.

    5. As far as the price goes, RAM is expensive, and each instance of slash uses between 16-20 megs of ram while running idle. (No hits to the website)

    6. Someone mentioned slashhost.com, they were not domain squatters, they planned on doing slash hosting services but quickly found out the resources it requires. At one time they were taken out of the sites list, I don't know why they were put back in.
  • Try PHPNuke from phpnuke.org [phpnuke.org]. I got it up and running in 5 minutes. It should work with any ISP (unix) that gives you MySQL and PHP.

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