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Hi. I host with dreamhost (www.dreamhost.com). Even on their cheapest plans they include unlimited Mailman lists, so it is a pretty good deal. I run about 8 domains with them and they are quite reliable. Their tech support is also quite good. Note, I wrote the Mailman list admin documentation, so I consider myself experienced on this topic.

If you are not averse to referral credits, use this link (and thanks). --chris

Dreamhost (or their comparison chart). 'nuff said.

I'm on their "level 3" plan, $20/mo, great email support, 3 real live telephone callbacks PER MONTH (never had to use it), great web panel, web email, etc. Full shell, ssh (passwordless!), mysql, php, c-compilers, etc. Really well run shop. 8gb storage, 200gb transfer, 15 domains, 75 subdomains, countably infinite # of email addresses, etc, etc, etc.

I really can't emphasize enough the type of support they give. They got my issues with crontab sorted out (some unix-y crontab guy sent me some tips), passwordless SSH issues (permissions problem), checked their mailqueues when I was experiencing slow delivery, answered my questions about changing the default mailing list configurations, responded to questions about a (rare) database outage, fixed dollar amount ordering on user-contribution pages, fixed initial setup issues that I had in the first day (and more importantly, updated their scripts so future setups wouldn't cause problems). Really first-class support, usually less than 24 hour email turnaround service and you get in touch with "the right person" and I always feel like they've done the best they can do to resolve the issues. (Thank you all dreamhost employees, especially ops and support!)

If you're feeling generous, go ahead and click my referral link before you sign up, I think I'll get some money from that if you sign up (at least it's not a free iPod ;^)

--Robert

Dreamhost (or their comparison chart). 'nuff said.

I'm on their "level 3" plan, $20/mo, great email support, 3 real live telephone callbacks PER MONTH (never had to use it), great web panel, web email, etc. Full shell, ssh (passwordless!), mysql, php, c-compilers, etc. Really well run shop. 8gb storage, 200gb transfer, 15 domains, 75 subdomains, countably infinite # of email addresses, etc, etc, etc.

I really can't emphasize enough the type of support they give. They got my issues with crontab sorted out (some unix-y crontab guy sent me some tips), passwordless SSH issues (permissions problem), checked their mailqueues when I was experiencing slow delivery, answered my questions about changing the default mailing list configurations, responded to questions about a (rare) database outage, fixed dollar amount ordering on user-contribution pages, fixed initial setup issues that I had in the first day (and more importantly, updated their scripts so future setups wouldn't cause problems). Really first-class support, usually less than 24 hour email turnaround service and you get in touch with "the right person" and I always feel like they've done the best they can do to resolve the issues. (Thank you all dreamhost employees, especially ops and support!)

If you're feeling generous, go ahead and click my referral link before you sign up, I think I'll get some money from that if you sign up (at least it's not a free iPod ;^)

--Robert

Dreamhost (or their comparison chart). 'nuff said.

I'm on their "level 3" plan, $20/mo, great email support, 3 real live telephone callbacks PER MONTH (never had to use it), great web panel, web email, etc. Full shell, ssh (passwordless!), mysql, php, c-compilers, etc. Really well run shop. 8gb storage, 200gb transfer, 15 domains, 75 subdomains, countably infinite # of email addresses, etc, etc, etc.

I really can't emphasize enough the type of support they give. They got my issues with crontab sorted out (some unix-y crontab guy sent me some tips), passwordless SSH issues (permissions problem), checked their mailqueues when I was experiencing slow delivery, answered my questions about changing the default mailing list configurations, responded to questions about a (rare) database outage, fixed dollar amount ordering on user-contribution pages, fixed initial setup issues that I had in the first day (and more importantly, updated their scripts so future setups wouldn't cause problems). Really first-class support, usually less than 24 hour email turnaround service and you get in touch with "the right person" and I always feel like they've done the best they can do to resolve the issues. (Thank you all dreamhost employees, especially ops and support!)

If you're feeling generous, go ahead and click my referral link before you sign up, I think I'll get some money from that if you sign up (at least it's not a free iPod ;^)

--Robert

DreamHost. This is hands-down the best web/email hosting service. I have used them for four years. They primarily run Debian servers and have a easy-to-use web interface for changing options on your web/email account.

They have a long history and have been in business since 1997.

DreamHost. This is hands-down the best web/email hosting service. I have used them for four years. They primarily run Debian servers and have a easy-to-use web interface for changing options on your web/email account.

They have a long history and have been in business since 1997.

Must also answer Dreamhost, especially if you can find someone to share the cost with you. Nothing but excellent service. No kickback for me link to the plan comparisons at Dreamhost. Dreamhost has even survived slashdotting! US$8.00 per month when you prepay for 24 months and could be shared with two other domains.

Way to whore yourself out. I rather than using your link I went to their homepage directly. It claims you make $65 CASH for EACH referral. Viewing the referral scheme page gives this info:

Earn $65 CASH for each account you refer! Introducing DreamHost Rewards - the most flexible affiliate program of the web hosting world! You can choose to receive substantial one-time credits for each of your referrals, or recurring credits for every payment that your referrals EVER make to DreamHost! Credits can be paid out via PayPal or check, or applied to a hosting bill with DreamHost.com. You don't even need to host with us yourself!

So how much money were you hoping to make off Slashdot readers today???

I am currently using two Web hosting providers, both for Web and e-mail, that I feel I can recommend. That's out of 5-6 hosting providers that I've used total. DreamHost has good plans, almost 99.999% uptime and pretty strong support services. I've been with them for about half a year, and so far have only the best impressions. I sent out a support e-mail once (had some database troubles), and got back a reply within 5 minutes (they don't promise that, but they guarantee a reply within 24 hours). Seems like they have plenty of customers and hence hire dedicated staff for support. Some domains hosted there (if you want to check the traceroute or load speed) - collectorcarbuff.com, thatwasfunny.com.

I've been with VerveHosting for about 5 years, they've been hosting my e-mail and provided Web hosting, the same thing - excellent uptimes and timely support, always got a reply within an hour or so in case I had a problem. Also, several times I needed custom Perl modules for the Web server, and all I had to do is ask. Domain hosted on VerveHosting - moskalyuk.com and hotdealsportal.com.

There are three others which I won't recommend (one happened to give me a 3-day-in-a-row downtime once), but I don't want to mention their names. WebHostingTalk is a great place to look for deals on hosting and read reviews.

From personal experience - I stopped looking for unbeliavably low prices, as those hosters would inevitably be the ones having problems. Good service costs money, and support can be crucial issue, if your site is selling products or selling ads, since every hour of downtime brings lost revenues. The link to DreamHost above is a kickback link (they have an award program for each customer, where the kickback earned goes towards the hosting bill), but other than that I don't profit from the links, and do not work for any of the companies.

How gauche

Perhaps. But it's BSD compliant! :) http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/gauche/index .html

I use Dreamhost, mainly because they have good uptime and connectivity. (I do have issues with their lag in software updates.) But there are a lot of decent providers out there. To separate them from the (also numerous) flakes, you need to ask questions. If it's not on their web site, email them: How many people do you have? What kind of turnaround can I expect for support requests? What kind of network connections (it had better be plural) do you have? How much downtime have you had?

My wonderful webhost (like many others) lets me have as many email aliases as I want. So every time I sign up for something online, I just use a form of whatever I'm signing up for (kim4abcwebsite@mydomain.com).

That way, as soon as I get my first spam, I can:
1) Kill the alias
2) Reliably report the offender, since I know that there's only 1 website I ever gave that particular alias to.

It's beautiful AND educational.. for example, I never would've guessed that the NY Times would be sellin' me.

(I know that a lot of you are already well aware of this tactic, but judging from previous responses, there are still a few who are not.)

Not quite an ISP, but they're getting close...

"For a while there I could get three new movies every week quite reliably, but now they've started playing games: I'm sure the movies don't take any longer to come and go, but instead of three days each way it's becoming four and five and even six days from the time I send in my movies until I see the next "arriving soon" notices in my email. At this rate I'm going from "about 12 movies a month" for $23 to maybe 9 and possibly as few as six."

There is experimental evidence that suggests Netflix progressively slows down their service to you when you rent more and more movies from them.

I work for a web hosting company, DreamHost, and this is the only minor stumbling block for us and our users. Although we can generate good default SPF records for a majority of our customers, we probably host a couple thousand people who use random SMTP servers (either their ISP's, their office's, or ones they run themselves).

We'll naturally provide those people with a method to add any of those SMTP servers to their SPF record (and that's what your web host should do), but there will likely be a bunch of tech support generated from people's mail getting rejected because they didn't know to add weird SMTP servers to their SPF record.

So for now we're taking it slow.

Our Courier IMAP Server which uses FAM for Enhanced IDLE Support means IDLE connections are using virtually NILL resources.

It's interesting that the Mozilla people don't seem to see this issue. They just think of it in terms of notification:

IMAP users can now benefit from support for the IMAP IDLE command which allows the mail server to push notifications such as new mail arriving as soon as it arrives.

Also source file here, should be a little faster than negacao's line down to 1.86kb/s when i got the source from him(her?), but we shall see how good DreamHost is... Pad Lock Source

Wang33

This worked grea until my ISP started blocking port 25 on me.

Since then, I've switched to DreamHost, which offers some decent hosting plans for a reasonable price. Sure, it WAS free before, but since my ISP shut the door, what can I do? :)

JVDS sounds like it would be a good option for skrysakj, since his main reason for avoiding dedicated hosting is the expense. He assumes that a non-dedicated solution means he has to take what the provider gives him. But a UML provider lets the customer have it both ways -- the cost structure is like a a shared provider, but the level of flexibility is like a dedicated provider. Which should appeal to a lot of people.

On the other hand, cost is not always the crucial issue. Even if you can afford a dedicated box, you may not want the hassle of administering such a system. Even if the provider delivers a nice turnkey solution (as you do), the whole point of having a dedicated system is being able to install your own stuff. But if you do that, you better be prepared, skillwise and timewise, to maintain that stuff. And not all of us are.

I personally would much prefer to have a provider that does all the donkey work for me. The problem with that is the provider always seems to have priorities that are not quite compatible with mine.

The closest I've come to an ideal shared provider is DreamHost, where I currently host my web site. The big points: even low-end accounts get shell access (often an expensive extra, if it's available at all), IMAP (most providers consider POP sufficient), and being CGI friendly (maybe a little too friendly). But:

• They insist that users keep their mailboxes small to avoid overburdening the mail server. This is enforced by a script that moves old messages from the mailbox to a regular file. Makes sense costwise, but it also defeats the main purpose of using IMAP -- having a central mail repository that you can easily access from multiple clients and systems.
• They support SSH and encourage people not to use telnet or ftp. But their web console doesn't include any key generation utility. So you have to do it on the command line. Which, since I don't do it very often, I have to study up on each time. A real pain.
• They're still on Perl 5.6.1, which has a lot of libraries that aren't taint-safe. They currently have no plans to upgrade to 5.8, citing massive version dependencies in their own software. Less of an issue, as I've learned more about writing secure CGIs, but it bothers me that their Perl is 3 years old.
• A lot of their docs suck. Plus it's all on SSL pages, which can be darned inconvenient.

I'm pretty impressed with SourceForge. But they don't do web hosting except as a part of their overall service.

Oh well.

Referral link seems broken. Sorry about that!. working link

I've had great luck with Dreamhost. They offer both SSL POP3 and SSL IMAP. I can't rave enough about their hosting. I did a lot of research into hosting companies, and they consistently came up as one of the top companies in the business.

Link to learn more

Fair disclosure: If you use that link and end up buying from them, I get a small "referral" credit on my own hosting bill. However, I wouldn't recommend them if I didn't think they were absolutely the best.

I have been searching high and low for a way to advertise my hosting service. I'd like somewhere that is visited by many people in the tech community, but is still free to post my adverts.

Too bad the moderators will help reveal the fact that his prices fall down miserably (read:suck) compared to ServerBeach and DreamHost and traceroute says he's running on SCO's own favorite *EV1.NET* machines.

The Lift is a Dutch movie about a thinking lift. It's quite old and seems to be badly duped in the states. See the Reviews here, here and here. It has been quite some while i've seen it (the native version) and i thougt it was scary than. probably was 1988 then ...

I have determined that Netflix uses the number of movies you rented in your previous billing period or periods combined with your disc plan (3 out, 5 out, etc.) to determine your priority in getting movies. As your cost-per-disc to Netflix increases due to more frequent rentals, you will have less of a chance of receiving a low-availability movie compared to an individual who has a lower cost to Netflix.

This is a personal opinion. Pick another host if you like, but pay for one. Much better than free.

Somewhat different story for movies, of course. Sending the contents of a DVD at this rate would cost around $12 which is cost prohibitive.

Since I seriously doubt there is a My Way, TN, someone should file a "bad faith" claim with the registrar of record and just take the domain away.

frequent renters get lower priority

DreamHost gives every account its own Jabber server for every plan. You can find more information about their Jabber support in their knowledge base.

DreamHost gives every account its own Jabber server for every plan. You can find more information about their Jabber support in their knowledge base.

I recommend Dreamhost. They use Razor, and you can have detected spam automatically deleted if you use IMAP. If you want POP3, then you'll need to create one filter on her email client, but that's something that you can do once and then forget about.

http://dvd-rent-test.dreamhost.com/

I also recommend Dreamhost. They have everything the submitter is looking for, and more.

Ever since I moved over to Dreamhost I've been as pleased as punch.

PHP, MYSQL, Apache, .htaccess, ssh1/2, telnet, pop3, stmp, webmail, personal jabber servers, options for CVS, https, streaming media, an outstanding customer service dept, and I could go on for days.

The key part of the article is this quote:

I created a list of 45 movies in my queue that did not have an availability of "Now."

By focusing on unavailable movies, the author was able to hypothesize the criteria used by Netflix to determine who should get the next copy of a movie. However, some /.ers are extrapolating that data to mean that long time subscribers never get the movie they want to see, as if a person wanted to rent Harry Potter, but is stuck watching Manos, the Hands of Fate (the worst movie of all-time, according to IMDB). That is not the case, if your top movie is unavailable, the next movie in your queue, a movie you specifically picked as being one you want to watch, is sent to you.

The Evil new account is in an IE browser, and the poor abused old account is in a NN window.

With the Ole Eichhorn's permission, I've mirrored his article at the following URL:

http://tribble.dreamhost.com/mirrors/030308-tyrann y_of_email.html

If you are having a hard time getting to the article at Ole's server, please feel free to use this link instead. Thank you.

I highly recommend DreamHost.

I split a SweetDreams plan with a friend. For $10/month each, we share:
1 FREE domain registration
3 full domains, 15 subdomains
450 MB Disk, 25 GB Transfer
60 Mailboxes, 15 Users
10M MySQL Cn, QT Streaming

One cool thing is that when we signed up about 9 months ago, we got 400 MB and 10GB for the same price. They upped those limits for free.

They do limit MySQL usage under the plan (see their website for MySQL Cn explanation), but they claim that only about 2% of users were anywhere near the limits. Due to high CPU usage for DB connections, they wanted to distribute more of the cost to the heaviest users.

Though there have been an unusually large number of problems over the last few months during their Data center move and their Debian Potato to Woody upgrade, overall I have been very happy with uptime and performance.

As others have posted, they are sometimes slow about upgrading packages (Perl, Python, etc.), but they have to balance stability for all users against having the newest stuff. It's easy enough to install your own local copies if you need newer versions. They give you lots of disk space in the plans, so for most people it's not a big deal.

Also, they are very up front about problems and proactively give you lots of info on changes and problems they are working on. One catch for some people is that they primarily provide only email support with the basic plans. You do get one free phone call to support a month. However, I generally get email responses from them in less time than I spend on hold with my ISP (Earthlink). I have never had to call DreamHost, but I'm not hosting for other clients and or a business.
WombatNation

If you want to do balls-to-the-wall hosting on Linux it doesn't get much better than Dreamhost. All sorts of goodies including PHP, MySQL, dedicated hosting available. These dudes know what the crap they're doing and are bloody fast, responsive, and funny. Don't recall their rates offhand, so check out the site. There's a plan for everything and last I checked they're competitive. I'm grandfathered in at low rates, so I'm happy.

If you're an ASP/.Net M$Slave you can't do much better than MaximumASP. They've got tons of components and despite the fact it's shared hosting it's fast and responsive. Support is top-tier as well and it's cheap at $199, 1GB space, 40GB traffic, etc.

I use Dreamhost too, on the "Sweet Dreams" plan, and have nothing but praise.

They are a little more expensive than the "budget" hosts, but they have a wealth of features and extras.

What really sets them apart, though, is their communication. Every host has downtime and misconfigurations, but Dreamhost does not evade your questions with cryptic responses. They are not too proud to tell you what went wrong.

That is not to say that they go down more than anyone else, but that, when they do, they don't leave you in the dark.

• Five Subdomains
• 150 MB disk space
• 20 GB/month bandwith
• 20 Mailboxes (unlimited aliases)
• 5 Shell/FTP Users

I don't think they offer co-location, but they do offer dedicated machines for managed or unmanaged co-hosting. If you're interested in signing up, click here.

some years ago i saw an ad for dreamhost here ... back in the pre-osdn days of slashdot. i've used them since and been pleased with the experience. prices are good, service is good, and they run debian on all their servers. i've run a few mid-traffic sites there for a few years, as have a few friends - and downtime has been truly insignificant (and I measure it). as well, i've never had to ask them to install an apache module or perl lib - as they always have their servers well stocked with recent, well-patched libs.

and no, i don't work for them or anything like that.

I can recommend "Dreamhost". I had a couple of websites with them for almost 3 years, until very recently (moved the sites to my own servers). They are not the cheapest, I think, but they have fast pipes and very stable servers. In all that time I only remember one long downtime, of some hours, because of a hardware failure (when they fixed it and reported/apologized for it, they included a picture of the faulty component --just geeky enough). They also have a decent account administration web system, and the support guys actually have blood flowing through their brains. And yes, they're a Debian shop.

Having said that, the distro probably doesn't matter if you're not the admin. Yes, choosing Debian over RH may speak well about their skill and knowledge... but to be completely honest, I didn't notice it was Debian until a year or so.

Hope this helps.

Go to Dreamhost. They're awesome. All Debian and really great support.

-J

Dreamhost now offer free Jabber servers with all their hosting accounts.

Personally I prefer the options given to me by Dreamhost. PHP, Perl, MySQL, Streaming Audio/Video , 5 FTP/shell accounts, 5 sub domains, 20 e-mail accounts, Procmail, 100 MB storage, 7GB bandwidth, and more... $9.95/month.

And the deatures go up from there if you are willing to pay more.

And they're a bunch of Linux geeks. :)

I run a community site at NWTekno.org (basically ravers in the northwest), which is kind of interesting because many of the people on it know each other in person, and for lots of them, their whole social life revolves around the web site. Kind of weird. We've made very little money (kids don't have credit cards, can't sell ads without losing indie cred, etc etc) and survive only because our hosting is donated, and I of course pimp them out every change I get in return. Just thought I'd add that, in case it's of any value to your research.

As a rule, they offer no telephone support. All of their support is via email, or a web form in case your email is down. They usually respond within an hour, and always within 24 hours. The people who respond are actual techs, and they actually have the power to fix things if they're broken.

One of the nicest features about their support web form, though is that after you ask your question, there's a little choice control, with the question: "Please select your general expertise in the area of this request:", with options ranging from "Please explain everything to me carefully" to "I have a good understanding of this stuff" and even "Not to be rude, but I probably know more about this than you!".

What a difference it makes! They don't waste their time reminding me to check my caps lock key when typing in my password, and similarly they don't confuse a newbie by talking about IMAP vs. POP3 (they support both, BTW, which rocks!).

I really like this model - I would be willing to give up phone support from any company if their email support worked this well.

And I highly recommend DreamHost for all of your web-hosting needs. And that's not just because if you say that "dmazzoni" referred you, I'll get a discount!

What happened to the time when companies would start small and then grow? In the "internet age" people want to get rich quick, which doesn't work unless you're in a tech bubble (pop!)

There are definately good internet businesses out there. My favorite is DreamHost. All Debian, hosting 30,000 domains now, handled my site getting slashdotted last month, and no annoying money-making-schemes. It's a place that's run by programmers, for programmers, and therefore it is excellent for people wanting php, mysql, perl, shell, encryption, etc etc etc.

The only companies that need agressive marketing are the ones that people would not normally buy products from.

Travis

Static IP's are not "easier" than DHCP. DHCP is "plug me in and get on." You don't have to set anything up.

With my 4-port Linksys router, I serve DHCP behind the PPPoE connection. My friend who brings a laptop over can drop a CAT5 cable into the router and be online, even enabling such silly things as file sharing. And that's even if they bring a computer over.

Quite frankly, how many of us are going to unplug our own personal machines to let a friend plug in a laptop. Those of us that get into that situation frequently buy things like ROUTERS. We've already discussed this. DHCP behind NAT and all.

Now, do I think they've made my service cheaper? No. That's just plain stupid. The things I expect are uptime and bandwidth. I get both. It's no disservice to me to run PPPoE because I'm not running a server. Everybody who has DSL to run a personal home server for public consumption that is upset about PPPoE needs to step back and look at what they're doing.

This is not what residential ADSL is for. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about having access remotely (like when I'm at work). However, I don't publicize the fact that my machine is up and running and connected. That's what those of us in the industry call "stupid."

Quite simply, if you want a static IP because you're running some type of services, go buy a business account and get your static IP, or go off-site. Dreamhost ain't half bad.

I have a beef with people that can't format their posts to make them legible.