Re: [Columba-devel] website page broken

[Claudio C. <pie...@pi...>]

Frederik Dietz wrote:
>>If i can, there's an italian hosting company started at the beginning o=
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>>this year that has very low prices and quality hosting.
>>You have a .it .com .net .org domain 200MB splitted like this:
>>100 MB for web pages
>>50MB for email (pop3, Imap4 and yopur own smtp account) and 50MB for SQ=
L=20
>>server (Mysql)
>>There's the limit of 2GB/month, but the beautiful thing is that if you=20
>>exceed it, the site won't be blocked with bad company pages, but simply=
=20
>>will be slower when reply to requests (i think that the max limit is 3=20
>>GB with a delay of 30 seconds). But 2 GB for a webpage only website (i=20
>>think downloads will remain on sf) is a high limit.
>>all for only =808,99/year!
>>Payment is made via paypal with credit card.
>>The bad news is that's only in italian :( but i'm available to help you=
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>>in translation.
>>The site is www.tophost.it
>>
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> Hi Claudio,
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> that's an amazing offer. But, are you sure that 8,99/year is correct. I=
sn't it supposted to be per month?=20

No, it's 8,99 for a year, i have a domain on it

> We currently have above 10 GB download traffic per month and above 5GB =
website traffic. So, 2GB limit is not enough.
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> The cheapest offer in Germany would be around 10 euro for a virtual ser=
ver, which you would have to share with many other users. For 30 euro you=
 get your own server.
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> Personally, I'd like to have not only the website but also many other t=
hings running on the same server. This includes nightly build snapshots, =
automated test run with results on our website, automatic javadoc creatio=
n for the website, better issue tracker, subversion based version control=
 system and better version control web-based viewer to track changes... e=
tc.
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> So, we would need root access rights on the server. We should to be abl=
e to install Java, database, etc.=20
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> Ok, ok... This is just my dream server setup, but that would be the 30e=
uro Timo was referring to.
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> It would be easy to just get a little server to host our website only a=
nd I would be more than willing to pay that on my own. But, I'm aiming a =
little higher here.

No, you can't do all these things with this offer. There's only=20
ftp/https access, no jsp, and you can't have root access neither more=20
bandwith (the secret of this low price is that they have the same choice=20
for all users, so they can have the sam server config for everybody and=20
less server problems.
However, i know that they recently became the hoster of mozilla italy=20
(www.mozillaitalia.org), i think for free or with low rates.
They say that supports opensource, so maybe you can try to contact the=20
staff here:=20
http://www.tophost.it/th/index.php?option=3Dcom_thcontattaci&Itemid=3D152
fields, from the top, are: name, surname, email address, message text,=20
and the button at the bottom is the send button.
I think you're looking for housing or for dedicated hosting, but prices=20
are higher than 30=80/year.
With tophost, you can register a domain (.it .com .net .org) and manage=20
DNS for 5,99=80/year.

> Cheers,
> -Frederik

Hope this helps.
BTW, if you find such hosting for only 30=80/year, tell me the name! :)=20
I'm interested too.

Bye,
Claudio