[sllug-members]: Host my own, or pay someone?

[Doran L. Barton]

Evan P. Dillon wrote:
> I am a fan of WestHost (http://affiliates.westhost.com/z/1/CD530/). They
> are up in Logan, have reasonable/competitive rates and I have had
> nothing but good service from them. I have even been able to install my
> own software (Tomcat among other things) to run Java/J2EE
> Struts/Spring/Hibernate web apps. They support PHP/MySQL, Perl, etc
> right out of the box.

Yes, the headquarters is in Logan, but the servers are not. My experience 
with WestHost psuedo-virtual server packages is that they oversell their 
resources to the point where your websites run almost painfully slow. That 
said, their virtual server environment seems pretty nice. I found it odd, 
however, the virtual server didn't offer the 'rsync' command, which I use a 
lot and I couldn't compile it myself.

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