Having linux preinstalled on a laptop is great. But a lot of these companies just uninstall the preinstalled Windows installation and install a Linux distro over top of it. Even though you are not getting Windows, you are still usually paying for it one way or another.
Someone asked a similar question a few weeks ago. This is somewhat what my answer was:
Me and a couple of friends share a co-located server from John Companies and have loved the service we received from them so far.
If you use a portion of your coloc to host your open source project, you can get the coloc for $45 USD a month. For that, you get the following:
root on your own server
Full Linux Filesystem
4 gigs disk - Up to 10 IPs
40 Gigs transfer / Month
Firewall access
Unlimited tech support
They supply the hardware
Having root on your own machine is one of the better features of this service. You install what you need, configure it to your needs. No hassle, no questions. There are a lot of services out there like this, but this is the cheapest, with the highest customer ratings that I have found.
One solution to this would be to get a coloc which would give you a static ip address and full root access to the server. Currently me and a few buddies are paying for a redhat coloc from John Companies and we all love it.
If you use a portion of your coloc to host your open source project, you can get the coloc for $45 USD a month. For that, you get the following:
- root on your own server
- Full Linux Filesystem
- 4 gigs disk - Up to 10 IPs
- 40 Gigs transfer / Month
- Firewall access
- Unlimited tech support
- They supply the hardware
Doing this, it is very easy to set up your own mail/web/etc server without many of the problems you get from hosting those services at home.
I've had great luck with First Tennessee. I havent had any problem using the likes of Mozilla/Phoenix and Netscape. Links even works fine as long as SSL and Javascript are compiled in.
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Having linux preinstalled on a laptop is great. But a lot of these companies just uninstall the preinstalled Windows installation and install a Linux distro over top of it. Even though you are not getting Windows, you are still usually paying for it one way or another.
Me and a couple of friends share a co-located server from John Companies and have loved the service we received from them so far.
If you use a portion of your coloc to host your open source project, you can get the coloc for $45 USD a month. For that, you get the following:
- root on your own server
- Full Linux Filesystem
- 4 gigs disk - Up to 10 IPs
- 40 Gigs transfer / Month
- Firewall access
- Unlimited tech support
- They supply the hardware
Having root on your own machine is one of the better features of this service. You install what you need, configure it to your needs. No hassle, no questions. There are a lot of services out there like this, but this is the cheapest, with the highest customer ratings that I have found.Just an idea.
If you use a portion of your coloc to host your open source project, you can get the coloc for $45 USD a month. For that, you get the following:
- - root on your own server
- - Full Linux Filesystem
- - 4 gigs disk - Up to 10 IPs
- - 40 Gigs transfer / Month
- - Firewall access
- - Unlimited tech support
- - They supply the hardware
Doing this, it is very easy to set up your own mail/web/etc server without many of the problems you get from hosting those services at home.Just an idea.
I highly recommend using LNX-BBC or LinuxCare for any type of rescue/administrative on the fly work.
LNX-BBC is small enough to fit on one of those business card cds and is aimed towards people who know what they are doing; (read: no man pages).
Linuxcare is another great linux toolkit for administrative work.
Check out this page for a list of other linux bootable toolkits. Cheers!
I've had great luck with First Tennessee.
I havent had any problem using the likes of Mozilla/Phoenix and Netscape.
Links even works fine as long as SSL and Javascript are compiled in.
-Dave