https://olashirt.com/2iyqe8g A friend of mine suggested I try hosting with www.nearlyfreespeech.net — because instead of a set monthly rate, they charge you based on usage. Low traffic sites (like mine) would cost very little to maintain. About that time, I was starting a private website, so I gave it a go. As it turns out, I’m quite happy.
Don’t get me wrong, about the same time I signed up, Nearly Free Speech had some MAJOR routing and DNS issues. My site was offline or horribly slow for over a week. Then, they had a major MySQL crash, and my site was offline for another half a day. Since that time, several months ago, it’s been great. I’m OK with a company having problems as long as they fix it, and communicate the problem with their clients. NFS did both.
http://www.servicebrandglobal.com/img/haryxux/ Plus, they’re DIRT CHEAP!!! I started the account with about $10 in the “bank”, and only today did I feel a need to add more money. Not because it was low, but because I am adding another website to the account and I want to make sure it’s “spike proof”. See, if a website gets Dugg or Slashdotted, their servers happily scale for you — but you pay for the bandwidth such a spike generates. It seems very fair to me.
http://www.claritydentalclinic.co.uk/clarity/hariziwe/ So if you’ve been looking for a really inexpensive way to reliably host a website, especially if it doesn’t get much traffic or store much data — Nearly Free Speech might be a good choice. I’m happy with it. When my hosting package is done here at GoDaddy, I’ll be switching this site over too.
https://adamkaygroup.com/uncategorized/6cx932g I’m going to have to check them out for my next website project. I don’t mind godaddy unless I have to try and use their site.
https://www.beecavebee.com/b0f6svu5xf I usually get mad at how terrible navigation on their site it.
https://sapooni.com/zallk8xv My big issue with GoDaddy is that the one time I got “Dugg”, my site crumbled in about 3 seconds. I know the hosting is inexpensive, but occasional spikes should be something they can handle.
http://www.galleriamoitre.com/gt88ea6m I’ve never gotten Dugg or Slashdotted on NFS, but they specifically claim to handle spikes like that.
If this is anything I might be interested in, ie have a use for, or need for please translate. If not I will go on in blisful ignorance. Thank you for being my personal computer geek.
I saw you got this cross-posted to LinuxJournal today and it made me think of some questions not really covered by their FAQ. And I’d much rather pester somebody I vaguely kind of know vs a total stranger. *grin* Any idea what version of Python they’re using on their servers (and if Python is available via mod_python)?
Mark: NFSN is using python 2.5.2 and 2.4.4 (you can see their CGI versions here: http://example.nfshost.com/versions.php), However, mod_python has not been implemented due to security concerns. They are looking at implementing it in the future as soon as security and stability in a shared environment is a non-issue.
Aaron,
Thanks a ton. I didn’t know the answer, and wasn’t sure where to look. š
Thanks for the info Aaron (and Shawn :)). I might just have to give them a try then.
Thanks a lot for your nice concept about nearly free speech. I might just have to give them a try then.