Slash Friendly Hosting Services?

dfelznicasks: "Hello, I got the bad news from Covad to day: no DSL. I had plans on running a Slash site about political activism, anize.org. So now I am falling back to Web hosting services. I checked on Slashcode but HREF="http://www.slashosting.com">SlashHosting was a little pricey did not offer any mailing lists and was based on FreeBSD. I do not want to start a flamewar but I am comfortable in Linux and plan to move it to a dedicated Linux box within a year so I want to stay consistent. My question is does any one know of a good, reliable, cheap Linux based Webhosting service that is Slash code friendly?" I note that the submittor doesn't mention the SlashHost service which is listed above SlashHosting in the grand-mal list of Slash related sites, but it seems that page has gone missing (it's now a page about Free Academy Training). Are these services the only two players in town or are there other ISPs out there that are, if not Slash friendly, at least not Slash unfriendly.

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you are wrong I meant slashhosting.com

[dfelznic]

Hello,
I submitted this question. The site i was refering to was slashhosting.com not the site you mentioned...
slashhost.com looks like a domain squatter for free academy.com

Slashhosting too expensive?

[delfstrom]

If slashhosting.com is too expensive for you, then I suggest that slashcode may not be the right program for your needs. Slashcode is perfect for scaling up to a huge community. It's more complicated, so it costs more to administer slash-based accounts.

If you need to be able to grow to form a huge community, then you'll need slashcode.

But if you are talking about a few thousand visitors per day, you should look into any of the following slash-alikes:

• PHPslash
• Squishdot
• ThatPHPware
• scoop
• SlashJ
• sips
• localecho
• twig
• ASPslash
• phpweblog

(the above was taken from the Slashalikes page on Slashcode.org)

Methinks this would have been a better question to ask on Slashcode.org instead of here on Slashdot itself.

Shameless plug for ServerVault (Again)

[lythander]

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question about slashdot (it's on topic, really)

[Tumbleweed]

How big is the database on Slashdot right now? I'm asking because I'll be needing some intense hosting service sometime next year, and I've no clue how to go about estimating how big the database will wind up growing to. I can see it getting as big as Slashdot's database as far as content goes, maybe bigger.

So - folks at Slashdot - how much diskspace is the database taking up these days?

Who cares about the OS underneith.

[bluGill]

Operating systems are not religion. You will not be dammed to eternal torrment by choosing the wrong one or using several. It is in fact good for your resume to learn multipul OSes.

Besides, which linux do you prefer? redHat, Debian, and slackware are three very different distributions that come to mind. All are nominally linux, and all run mostly the same code underneith, but they are very different to set up and work with. FreeBSD is just anouther one.

If someone gets slashcode working and stable on NT (2000), and they are cheapest, then use them. I don't like microsoft either, but if it works don't break it. If you need something that NT can't provide (remote admin) then don't use it. FreeBSD and linux are similear enough that there is no advantage of one over the other in features. (Linux supports more hardware, but freeBSD is generally slightly more stable on the hardware it is stable on - since you choose the hardware, you can choose what works best. a bad choice of freeBSD hardware and good linux hardware will make linux better, and vise-versa)