Re: [PLUG] Need Hosting Recommendation

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

You may want to consider using PAAS for some services and reduce your data center footprint down to the services
you actually do need to run yourself.   I use or have used the following with good results.

DNS:  cloudns.net       ( inexpensive, multi zone, DDOS protection available, or full managed server instance )
                        Supports zone transfers, text and spf records, variable TTL down to 5 min

Email:  in-tuition.net  ( Spam filtering only, or full Zimbra hosting, whitebox hosting )
                         The advantage is that all Zimbra features work with mobile, including Calendar, Contacts, and Todo 

Backup: rsync.net       ( They run ZFS and can accept zfs send snapsnots on 1TB+ accounts at $60/month),  works
                          with FreeNAS replication GUI.   Of course rsync works here on all accounts.
                          As long as your local Storage is ZFS based, zfs snaps are great, otherwise rsync.


Lee


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Casey Bralla" <MailList@nerdworld.org>
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <PLUG@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2017 2:22:32 PM
> Subject: [PLUG] Need Hosting Recommendation

> I know this has been discussed before, but I wanted to get an updated hosting
> recommendation.
> 
> I've been running my own DNS, eMail, & Web servers on my home server with a
> comcast commercial account.  For reasons too complicated to discuss here, I've
> decided I need to shut down my own server and move all the virtual machines
> onto a hosted platform.
> 
> I've been running about a dozen virtual machines on a relatively low-power
> atom multicore server, which runs Debian.  My traffic volume is very low, and my
> bandwidth requirements are very modest.    Cost of the service is very
> important, but my technical support needs are minimal.   I need a "stable" IP
> address, althugh it does  not have to be "static" (ie:  if it changes twice
> per year, I can live with that.)
> 
> So, in summary, my needs are:
> 
> - Low cost hosting
> - Single "stable" IP address
> - Ability to run Debian, and about a dozen debian virtual machines on the same
> server
> - total storage of about 250 GBytes
> - Minimal tech support
> - Ability to handle incoming and outgoing eMail from my mail server (I
> currently relay my outgoing through comcast.)
> 
> 
> Anybody want to suggest a good hosting company?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> --
> 
> Casey Bralla
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