Monastery Hosting

[ivor]

It has a 700 watt power supply so it should be okay with standard wiring.

Check here and see if FiOS is available in your area:

http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/FiOSInternet/CheckAvailability/CheckAvailability.htm

[Sibling Chatty]

No, it isn't.

Shoulda known...we iz in da sticks out here, with all the hicks.

[ivor]

Thanks for the offer though Chatty!

[Sibling Chatty]

If we get FiOS (hahahaha) here, I DID sign up for them to let me know.

*Sits, waits for Hell to freeze over.*

[Kaliayev]

I've used shared Dreamhost servers before and I'll certainly stand by the comment they are screwy as hell.

A private server, while certainly more expensive, is much better.  Another forum I help admin runs on one, and if it were not for our (previously existing and unrelated database structural issues) it would be perfect.  Also, you can customize usage somewhat when you have it, which should keep costs at a more manageable level.

[ivor]

I think the people at DreamHost have an amazing setup.  I think it takes some amazing smarts to run so many servers with so few people.  Their Achilles heal is the fact that there's too many sites on their servers running who knows what.  All it takes is some screwy software or a hijacked site to take the server down. 

[Kaliayev]

Yeah.  When we were on a shared one, we had to turn the forum search function off, because if more than two people used it at once, we'd take down everyone on the cluster, including us. 

And that got boring after a few days. 

[ivor]

That may be a problem here...   My biggest problem though is spiders.  Especially the ones that ignore robots.txt.

[Kaliayev]

I banned their IPs...but it seemed to have a tiny effect on bandwidth usage, at best