Goin' on an ISP Hunt...

[c9]

Well, http://www.Istop.com is having more legal difficulties with Bell. They're an Ottawa-based DSL reseller, and Bell has cut them off, second time in a year, and they've basically sold their customer base to cybersurf, whoever that is.

They provided me with free hosting since i used to buy a bunch of hardware from them. Now I need a new home. I don't need an ISP, but any suggestions for a new hosting provider? Cheapest is best, as the kitchen renovation has eaten all my available funds until at least 2006. :)

Specific needs: somewhere to put my shit. no domain (yet), no email addresses. CGI would be nice.

Comments

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to use space on metacon if you like. It's fairly fault tolerant now (RAID-1 mirroring, plenty of space, nightly network backups). The price is right :-)

[c9.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I thought it was still down. How much space can I have? (j/k, I only need 25 MB at the moment...)

That sounds cool. I shall check with you down the road as to what hardware I can donate to the cause. Do I still have an account?

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Should do. The outage last week was only about 4 hours long -- I restored the backup of the server to my desktop as a temporary measure for the weekend then moved everything to a machine I borrowed from work on Monday.

Donations of hardware or lines on discounted stuff are always appreciated :-)

I did find a store with crazy-ass prices right here in town (www.thrift-king.com), but the selection is pretty crap. I'm hoping he can at least order stuff in.

[c9.livejournal.com]

www.ncix.com (Vancouver) and www.robotnik.com (Halifax) have the best prices pretty consistently. The best is the weekly specials email from NCIX, it always has something insane.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know -- it's been the cause of too many insane purchases, too :-)

But I like the idea of a place in town with ridiculous prices -- it will make the purchase of bulky things (like the new Antec Sonata II case much more cost-effective. Drool!

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[petele.livejournal.com]

if you want Windows hosting, let me know and I can hook you up through a company I know... They're free, and well, you can get ASP.NET 2.0 or databases or all sorts of other things... And the connection they have to the internet is a good as Microsofts ;) hint hint.

Re: also

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

Hehe, that has to be some serious bandwidth available then... But they are also probably a big target for hacking/DDoS and those kinds of attacks are they not so you would want your code to be *very* tight...

Re: also

[c9.livejournal.com]

Meh -- these days I hardly have any time for fun stuff, so they'd just be attacking raw JPGs. :)

(I really wish I knew more about secure ASP and ASP.NET, actually. The code I write, on the rare occasions I get time, is probably basically swiss cheese.)