Announcing PowerShellGroup.org – A home for PowerShell User Groups
I’ve just created PowerShellGroup.org — a new site for PowerShell user groups (starting with: Rochester, Syracuse, Atlanta, Ottawa and of course, the Virtual Group). It’s open to any PowerShell user groups or script clubs. If you’re running a PowerShell user group and want simple web-hosting with: top-of-the-site billing for your group (with a url like [...]
Wikia says: Forget Free … we’ll PAY you
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that his for-profit company, Wikia Inc., is ready to give away not just MediaWiki (the software which runs Wikipedia) but also the hosting you need to run it. And even further, if you run what they consider to be a popular website, you can even have the advertising revenue from [...]
Searching for a new webhost
So, for nearly three years this site has been hosted on a free promotional account from 1&1, but that account expires sometime in October, and I’ve been looking around at the usual places trying to figure out what my best option is. It’s really hard to decide to spend even $7 a month on something [...]
1and1 $5 hosting
Well, it’s cheap … and I’ve got no complaints about 1and1 (at the time of this writing, they host huddledmasses.org). $4.99 for 120GB of space, and 1200GB monthly transfer volume. You even get 25 MySQL databases, 10 FTP accounts, and the usual scripting languages (Perl, Python, PHP). You have full ability to host multiple domains [...]
Best hosting deal?
Netfirms has a coupon code that gives you a year for under $10, but that still might not be the best deal, long term.
BlueHost $7 hosting
So, I’ve been looking for a hosting solution for my church’s website … we need to grow, and our current host is just not positioned to make that affordable. I was looking for something over 500 MB of disk space, with over 15 GB of monthly network traffic, and in particular, for a host with [...]