[IWE] Hosting

[Andrew Grygus]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:05:04 -0500, williamoxley@aim.com wrote:

>What about all the fiddly bits? Zope, database, tricks needed to keep 
>it running, would there be access for that kind of stuff? Also what is 
>the hard cost? 

I'm no expert on this stuff - I've got a half dozen sites hosted but 
they're all real simple.  What I see is that Postgres might be  
a problem - all the services support MySQL but I haven't noticed 
any advertising Postgres (but I haven't looked at many either). I 
know Nick Petrele has hosting supporting Zope, and recently moved 
to a new service supporting Zope. Don't know the details. 

My Clovegarden site has full function hosting with database support 
and all sorts of fancy that I'm not using any of (just straight html 
right now). It costs me $150/year. 

>>I think it would be of great benefit to put the thing on Amazon's 
>>S3/EC2.  Backups can be made to S3 as many times a day as 
>>you like, run one or more EC2 instances, never worry about dead 
>>hardware again.

Andrew Grygus