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By: Rants and Revelations » Getting my linode on

Rants and Revelations » Getting my linode on — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:27:00 +0000

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Filed under: Route, Geekery — May 15, 2005 @ 14:05 GMT

As I wrote in a blog entry a few weeks ago, I added up all the money I spend on Gradwell [...]

By: rich

rich — Tue, 03 May 2005 00:32:24 +0000

Last I checked, Dreamhost was still running Postfix 1.x — that’s probably what’s up there. I don’t use mailman there at all, so I hadn’t run into it.

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Tue, 03 May 2005 00:17:31 +0000

Dreamhost’s prices look excellent, but I’m a little concerned about their half-assed Mailman implementation. They say that mailman doesn’t support virtual domains yet, and so they say they have to append the domain name onto the list name to make it unique. I’m not sure why Gradwell and others can handle this and they can’t.

By: Gordon Dewis

Gordon Dewis — Mon, 02 May 2005 03:38:55 +0000

I’ve been quite happy with Register4Less. There’s a link to them on my blog.

By: Richard Letts

Richard Letts — Sun, 01 May 2005 17:30:03 +0000

I closed my gradwell developer account recently, mostly because my home machine is at the end of a DSL line with a static IP address and I no-longer needed the MySQL database. Gradwell has an offering that allows you to use their secondary DNS service and then add domains as primary, so you’re only paying for the DNS hosting side.

My plan is to go for one of the virtual hosting services, either linode of servint, once I get the home phone services sorted out.

By: rich

rich — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:42:48 +0000

(Woops, forgot to subscribe to comments.)

By: rich

rich — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:42:26 +0000

Dreamhost has been great for me. Here’s their package comparison. I use the “Code Monster” (for the price of “Sweet Dreams”) package because I’ve got more domains than “Crazy Domain Insane” provides and because I was nervous about bandwidth requirements back before they pushed them way up. They’ve had some email-related growing pains lately but they haven’t affected the machines I’ve been on. (ObReferralLink, but I recommend them even if I’m not referring you.)

By: Jennifer Mullen

Jennifer Mullen — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:37:29 +0000

I use HostGo for web hosting. I’ve been rather happy with it. They do (cheap) domain registration, cPanel, Perl, PHP, mailman, mySQL, and have decent and open source web mail and log reporting tools installed. I don’t believe they offer PostgreSQL. Their prices are also quite reasonable.