Title: Web Hosting
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Right now I use/need about 3-7gigs of data storage (10 preferable) and up to a gig/month bandwidth for my personal and project websites. I like using dedicated operating systems with full root, either virtual or dedicated hardware; operating system must be open source unix, BSD preferred, openBSD best. I would like to support a coop or more community run service but reliability and trust are big issues. I increasingly would like to have everything physically hosted in an open and trustworthy society (netherlands, switzerland, etc), and looking forward having resources to run cryptographically secure filesystems and email service will be important.
Currently running with quantact with the 128 meg openVZ at $10/month with a 12% discount for 1 year contracts. Doubling storage and ram doubles the cost, additional ip's are $2. Right now running a bit unstable, probably due to overloading ssl certificates (my fault); apache is also a bit tight on the 128 megs, could switch to lighttpd? quantact provides very good support, good VM control, free DNS hosting, community wiki, and some other nice features; they have gone down once or twice over the year i've been with them, less than 12 hours total. Biggest problem is it's all linux, I run debian. Xen plans also available. Hosting is in california.
[Update Dec 2009] Shifting to rootbsd.net. Also found memset.com which looks good; generally things have gotten a lot cheaper/more powerful since writing the above and below.
tech.coop offers xen hosting for about $20/month, not much bandwidth; plans scale up. seems like a cool company, hosting is in canada.
hcoop is a really cool cooperative, they charge on a sliding scale by bandwidth and resource use, around $5/month minimum. very active community, they develop hosting and systems software and release it open source. linux, probably not enough resources (2 servers for many accounts)
compartment.se seems to offer $55/month high performance dedicated servers with openbsd in sweden.
gplhost has offshore cheap xen hosting; netbsd is an option.
NOTE: http://www.red-pill.eu/freeunix.shtml lists free unix shell accounts.