I'm thinking of creating a political parody website that may step on some toes and/or trademarks. I have a few technical and legal questions about how best to go about this. [more inside]
posted by Riki tiki on Dec 22, 2009 - 6 answers

Help me choose a webhost for my small business. Details on the inside. [more inside]
posted by Iteki on Nov 8, 2009 - 13 answers

How would the new Mac Mini server compare to a cheap shared hosting account? [more inside]
posted by sindark on Oct 20, 2009 - 28 answers

How can I change to company Y for domain registration and hosting when I can't contact unreliable original company X to do the change? In the UK. [more inside]
posted by Not Supplied on Oct 16, 2009 - 9 answers

Why does the domain I just registered and added to my existing hosting account (with 1and1) contain the same files and folders as a domain that was already on that hosting package? [more inside]
posted by entropic on Jul 8, 2009 - 9 answers

I need a web-hosting company and I know bugger-all about what to look for. Bonus: I'll need to re-register my domain soon. Can someone please hold my hand and gently point me in the right direction? I am in Australia. [more inside]
posted by ninazer0 on May 3, 2009 - 12 answers

I need an inexpensive ($20 or less a month) webhost that allows multiple domains and Movable Type installations and can handle OK & occasionally large traffic... I've gotten dugg 3 times! Any suggestions? [more inside]
posted by aristan on Nov 3, 2008 - 10 answers

I work for a small web development company. As we are growing, I have been tasked with looking at a few pieces of our business: - Version Control (Currently we don’t do it. We’re starting to use Subversion at my recommendation) - Development Environments (We don’t exactly have formalized dev/stage/production right now, more like just dev/production…) - Hosting (How we host our different clients varies… too much… we need a good solution) - Infrastructure (i.e. how we host our own email, how we back up our data) I already have some thoughts and recommendations, but they’re based on my personal experiences, so I thought I’d see what other experiences are out there and find out what other people/companies are doing… [more inside]
posted by twiggy on Jun 5, 2008 - 10 answers

How do you find good shared web hosting, aside from word-of-mouth? Is there a "Consumer Reports" (or Ars Technica?) of the hosting world? [more inside]
posted by mr. creosote on Mar 25, 2008 - 12 answers

HostingFilter: I need to move two web properties, two active domains, and some parked domains, and I'd like to it to be as economical as possible. [more inside]
posted by micawber on Mar 17, 2008 - 7 answers

Recommend a reseller web hosting company! [more inside]
posted by Meagan on Nov 15, 2007 - 8 answers

Has anyone used knownhost.com's VPS service before? [more inside]
posted by friedbeef on Aug 4, 2007 - 0 answers

I'm looking for honest views/reviews of UK/European web hosting. I know it's easy to google, however there is so much spam and disinformation regarding hosting that I got sick of trying to find anything regarding it. I need your help! [more inside]
posted by thelost on Jun 7, 2007 - 12 answers

I need to buy a server for around $800 ($1000 as an absolute maximum). It will be hosting a website with a (PostGres) database that will start at around 4GB and grow slowly (so would like at least 2GB of RAM). It must be able run Linux, preferably Ubuntu or Debian. [more inside]
posted by phrontist on May 10, 2007 - 9 answers

I need a recommendation for decent shared hosting (NOT Dreamhost.. see inside). [more inside]
posted by zek on Mar 24, 2007 - 19 answers

What's a good free, semi-anonymous Web hosting service that isn't quick to take down content? I want to post some satirical artwork I created, but not get canned because of some overreactive corporate legal department. I've heard Dutch sites are good for this. Any thoughts? And does Google do a good job indexing free servers?
posted by hodyoaten on Nov 9, 2006 - 7 answers

Looking for a dedicated server hosting provider [more inside]
posted by strawberryviagra on Oct 27, 2006 - 14 answers

Dreamhost alternatives? [more inside]
posted by shannymara on Aug 7, 2006 - 14 answers

I've had it with the intermittent email service that I (and many others, apparently) have been experiencing with Dreamhost. [more inside]
posted by runningdogofcapitalism on Mar 13, 2006 - 15 answers

Yet another request for help selecting a web host - but this one's a little different. I'm not trying to move a small personal site but something bigger. [more inside]
posted by mikel on Jan 26, 2006 - 16 answers

Textdrive seems to be a good hosting company for my Ruby code, but I'm rather put off by their no dev/tinkering sandboxing policy. Any alternate suggestions?
posted by furtive on Jan 24, 2006 - 40 answers

I'm looking webhosting with these features: (1) will let me host and manage dns mappings for an unlimited number of domains (2) will let me create and manage an unlimited number of MySQL number of domains (3) ssh access (4) PHP/Perl/Python and maybe even Ruby and (5) Reliability. [more inside]
posted by weston on Jan 24, 2005 - 8 answers

Looking for a good, free web hosting service.

Ideally, I'd love to have FTP capability (100 megs or so), but beggars can't be choosers. I have run across a few, namely: free prohosting, 50 megs.com, and maybe even geocities (although I'd like to stay away from that if possible). I own my own domain name, and basically, just want to have a REALLY basic presence on the net. 1-3 pages max.

any suggestions?
posted by getupandgo on Nov 30, 2004 - 5 answers

A family member of mine wants to set up a simple site for his home business - schedules of classes, some photographs, contact information, links, etc., and I have suggested that he use Typepad, which I use for a number of projects. However I think he'd prefer a non-weblog format, which leads me to my question: are there combined hosting/construction tools out there, like some of these weblog services, that have a good and very easy-to-use back-end, lots of design/format choices, but are more focused around a more heirarchically structured, top-down site structure?
posted by luriete on Aug 25, 2004 - 6 answers

I was just about to sign up to a quite nice looking hosting deal with 1and1, when I discovered it's available to US and Canadian Residents Only. This, of course, completely pissed me off. Does anyone know of any packages comparable to their Linux Business Hosting that are available to poor Aussies like me?
posted by Jimbob on Jul 19, 2004 - 12 answers

What's a good host for providing both a lot of storage (1 GB+) and bandwidth?
posted by drezdn on May 23, 2004 - 8 answers