Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 09/20/07 08:20

lawrence k wrote:
> On Sep 12, 5:28 pm, Herb <her...@mail.com> wrote:
>> Why do so many hosting services only offer PHP4? That's even true for
>> Yahoo.
>
>
> Another option is to find a place that offers you your own server, for
> cheap. Hostway.com is offering dedicated servers for as little as $99
> a month. I got a server from them with Ubuntu on it. I was very
> pleased to have my own server, for so little money. The last company
> that I worked at had their servers from (was renting) from
> RackSpace for $550 a month. Compared to that, Hostway seems cheap. Of
> course, Hostway is not offering the awesome level of customer service
> that RackSpace offers, but most of the time I don't need it.
>
> Once you've got your own server, you can do anything you want with
> it.
>
>
>
Given todays broadband speedss and the availability of 'no surcharge '
fixed IP addresses, why not do as I did and spend less than $350 on a
Linux PC and host it all from home..its more han enough for all low
traffic stuff, and if you are pushing gigabytes a day, why then host
your own machine in someone else's facility.

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