Web Site Hosting Recommendations

[Mark Holtz]

This time I'm serious.

I am going to transfer my web hosting to another company. The features that I'm looking for is as follows:

* Main domain name is deepspacefranchise.net, with a DNS alias to deepspacefranchise.com
* 20MB of disk space
* At least 5 e-mail accounts
* POP3 and IMAP Access
* .procmailrc access
* SpamAssassin 2.6 with access to the user preferences file
* Frontpage 2000 support and ftp access

Also, it would be nice to have Virus checking against major common e-mail viruses and tcsh Shell (preferable SSHv2 support only).

Anyone got any leads. Tech support isn't a issue for me, but low cost hosting is.

[Mark Holtz]

So far, I have one or two possibilities that fit my requirements for a web hosting company.

[Mark Holtz]

So far, http://www.planetgac.net/webmaster_series.shtml seems to be the closest.

[JBKing]

http://www.p4host.com/

Keep in mind that I've only been here about a month, but I've been very happy. I paid $24 for one year, that includes 150 MB storage, 5GB monthly bandwith, 999 emails, SPAM assassin, pop3/imap, frontpage. Don't know about procmailrc. There are lots of scripts and php installed, advanced guestbook, chat.

Although, you said you don't need tech support, I've been pleased with that also. I think there is just one guy, but he appears to work 24/7 with no sleep. He is always checking his email and the support forum with very little delay.

Shameless plug..... here's my site. :) http://www.owensboroblackbelt.com

[cnsf]

Try www.readyhosting.com If you can deal with the 9-5 CST customer service, it's $99 year. Been fine so far.

[Mark Holtz]

p4host and planetgac seems to be topping the list.

[Mark Holtz]

I've signed up with P4Host. I'll be transferring my web site over tomorrow, then issue a DNS update. Good thing checking e-mail by IP address works.

[JBKing]

Glad to hear it, Mark. I'll think you'll be happy. :)

[Mark Holtz]

Well, deepspacefranchise.net has finally "clicked" over to the new hosting IP address, however, deepspacefranchise.com is still pointing at the old IP address.

Now, to set up a high-probability e-mail .procmailrc filter to use with Spam Assassin.

[Mark Holtz]

Okay, I wasn't able to get procmail running, but Exim works fine. So, I have the following set up in a .forward file at P4Host. Note that the first line IS needed.

# Exim filter
if
$header_X-Spam-Status: contains "Yes" and
$header_X-Spam-Level: contains "\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*"
then
save $home/mail/spam
endif

What is basically does is that if the message is marked as spam and has a score of 10 or above (as determined by Spam Assassin and shown by the number of \*s), it shuttles it off to the spam box. Below 10, and it gets delivered to my normal mailbox.

[DBSPaul]

Okay, I've decided that I don't need all the bells and whistles that Verio provides me for $24.95 a month, but I definitely need reliability. Other things I'd like:

- at least 200MB of disk space
- something around 5G a month of data xfer
- the ability to telnet (ssh preferred) onto the box, not just ftp uploads like Verio does
- mail forwarders and POP accounts (I'll handle the spam filtering myself)

Any more suggestions besides the ones given to Mark??