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Some of us aren't heavy web programmers.
by mrcharles 17y ago
Some of us aren't heavy web programmers.
- dotBen 17y agoHonestly, that doesn't matter. Anyone who is the slightest bit technical would gain a lot from managing a VPS for their site. Even if you just want to host a bunch of wordpress blogs, or even static files.
- mrcharles 17y agoYou discount the power of being lazy.
- dotBen 17y ago^_^
- pyre 17y agoYou're glossing over the complexity of configuring email solutions. Though I'm not entirely certain if you're only advocating web hosting on a VPS with mail through something like Google Apps for Domains. Things like Exim and Postfix are non-trivial to setup correctly and very easy to screw up the configs, at least in my experience; though most of the time that I've tried to configure them I was trying to get them to do non-standard things (like redirect all outgoing emails to non-whitelisted -- through a pattern/regex -- email addresses to a specific mailbox).
- whatusername 17y agoSo you pay twice as much and have to do more work? Keeping my blog up-to-date is challenging enough as it is.
- hkuo 17y agoI can vouch for dotBen's recommendation. I recently signed up with a VPS for the first time a year ago for a site I'm still in the progress of building. There are a ton of step-by-step guides and how-to resources that make getting up and running relatively easy and painless. You'll be overwhelmed by the options you'll have access to, but there's really only a handful of decisions you need to make to get started. Go for a Managed VPS and you don't even have to worry about keeping up with system upgrades and such. There's of course, the added reward of having learned and accomplished something new.