[nylug-talk] [SPAM warning] I found a cool hosting facility <$10/month gives you 500GB Online storage.

[Brandorr]

On 10/25/07, Alex Pilosov <alex at pilosoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Brian Gupta wrote:
>
> > It is a virtual server that has FTP/SFP/IMAP/Web, etc access. (I am in
> > the process of loading all my email into the thing. It is very cool. (I
> > signed up for a ten year contract for $5.95/month, the price is hard to
> > beat).
> >
> > Signup here, and I get a tiny kickback.
> > http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?355817
> Very nice to post spam about just another virtual hosting company with
> shell access.
>
> Note that its only 5.95 a month if prepaid 10 years in advance...(say what?)
>
> Otherwise, it is 10.95 a month (month to month) plus 50$ setup. Hardly
> anything to write home about.
>
> This is not a virtual server. You don't get root. This is a plain vanilla
> virtual hosting account.
>
> I wish I could understand how companies like dreamhost manage to fool
> people into thinking their services are the best evar.
>
> -alex

Basically for ~$700 I got 500GB of online disk.  Considering what all
the X-Drives, S3s and Googles are charging for online storage, I am
very happy with this price... In addition to the low price, they have
a policy similiar to Google's, that the amount of storage allocated
for use has a time based counter that increases your quota with time.
(So in 10 years, my account will have multiple terabytes)

I finally have a place where I can take 15 years of email and put it
in one place. I don't have to waste time or money building and
managing my own infrastructure, and don't have to pay a lot of access
fees.

If I ever wanted to setup MySQL/Rails/Apache/etc... It's already there...

So for me it's a great deal. (And it has a fatter pipe than my home link.)

-Brian
>
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