I just registered a domain name and setup web hosting on Concentric. I was surprised at how easy it was, and how functional. This was their low-end CH-1 option, $25/mo. I get 20 mailboxes, 100M disk space and 7GB transfer per month. They have a nice browser-interface for reports and various administrative functions, plus "VDE" which seems to provide most of a Unix shell environment.
[Not 100%, e.g. CHMOD doesn't exist because they use ACLs so some ported scripts could fail but functionally it's about the same in the end, and easier for simpler things.]
Not something I'd recommend for the technical illiterate, but you don't have to be a Unix guru to do quite a lot, and you can always pick up more as you go. Sounds like you're well past the *nix-newbie phase so something like this would be a snap for you. Assuming you didn't have the college account; $25/mo is pretty good, but $0 has its appeal:-)
Perhaps you mean at the U.S. *federal* level. Here in Pennsylvania, state judges *are* elected. With all the usual problems you'd expect. Pick up a copy of the Philidelphia Enquirer any time pre-Election and you'll find plenty of editorials (rightly) railing against an elected judiciary.
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[Not 100%, e.g. CHMOD doesn't exist because they use ACLs so some ported scripts could fail but functionally it's about the same in the end, and easier for simpler things.]
Not something I'd recommend for the technical illiterate, but you don't have to be a Unix guru to do quite a lot, and you can always pick up more as you go. Sounds like you're well past the *nix-newbie phase so something like this would be a snap for you. Assuming you didn't have the college account; $25/mo is pretty good, but $0 has its appeal :-)
-- Howard
Perhaps you mean at the U.S. *federal* level. Here in Pennsylvania, state judges *are* elected. With all the usual problems you'd expect. Pick up a copy of the Philidelphia Enquirer any time pre-Election and you'll find plenty of editorials (rightly) railing against an elected judiciary.