[DGD] Pro's and Con's of <insert favorite hosting strategy here>

[Noah Gibbs]

  One option worth considering is something like SliceHost.  It's professional, but what you're renting is a virtual server so it can be as cheap as $20/mo for a server you have full and absolute control over, including console access (via remote app) and full root access.  Even their cheap options may be more resources than you'll need for a MUD, so it may not be able to compete with shared hosting for price (BlueHost is about $7/mo, IIRC, and offers shell accounts).  But you get much better control of the system, including choosing your own OS distribution and reinstalling as often as you like.  And SliceHost, unlike most shared hosting setups, are very unlikely to object to you running random custom servers as long as they don't send spam.

--- On Sun, 5/24/09, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Shentino <shentino at gmail.com>
> Subject: [DGD] Pro's and Con's of <insert favorite hosting strategy here>
> To: "All about Dworkin's Game Driver" <dgd at dworkin.nl>
> Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009, 9:03 PM
> After finally beating my router into
> submission and making it play nice with
> dyndns.org (read: rtfm'ing for the zillionth time and
> finally hitting D'oh
> point), I can now reliably get stuff inbound to my
> desktop.
> 
> So, I thought I'd take a little survey and see if anyone
> has opinions about
> hosting strategies, pros, cons of anything.
> 
> Strategies include but not limited to:
> * Self hosting
> * Borrowing a shell account from someone else's server
> * Professional hosting, such as at a datacenter
> * Make this one up.
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