Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Evaluation of new web hosting plans

Since my current web host is giving me the runaround about some firewall issues (I'm no longer able to use FTP PASV mode to publish to my site), I'm evaluating new hosting plans. My criteria are as follows:

$6-$12/mo
1GB of space
25GB of traffic
PostgreSQL support

The last item naturally leads me to look at PostgreSQL hosting providers for North America.

A 2 Web Hosting - Either the "Discount" or the "Small Biz" packages include oodles of disk space for a reasonable price. In addition, the Small Biz account would allow me to combine multiple domains into the same hosting account.

pgHoster - The plan that I would want is $15/mo, which is a pity because I'd love to pay a company that prominently promotes PostgreSQL.

VirtuosoNetSolutions - The basic package is ~$60/yr for 3GB/50GB or the eCommerce 5GB/100GB for ~$110/yr. Both packages allow additional domains to be hosted from the same account.

JTLnet - This looks like a good plan. The Linux '06 promo package is $10/mo for 2GB of space, 24GB of traffic, SFTP transfers.

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