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Instead of buying a dedicated server (~$150+/mnth), am I correct in
thinking that I could buy several shared hosting plans at less cost
($7/mnth) through bluehost.com and just do a round robin DNS to load
balance?
I have a TurboGears project with an Apache webserver frontend.
Jorge Vargas
Sorry this is somewhat off topic, but is related to blueHost hosting.
Instead of buying a dedicated server (~$150+/mnth), am I correct in
thinking that I could buy several shared hosting plans at less cost
($7/mnth) through bluehost.com and just do a round robin DNS to load
balance?
you should ask them and don't say the dedicated part
I have a TurboGears project with an Apache webserver frontend.
this has nothing to do with TG for apache this is just another plugin to send/receive data from.
Kevin Dangoor
>
> Instead of buying a dedicated server (~$150+/mnth), am I correct in
> thinking that I could buy several shared hosting plans at less cost
> ($7/mnth) through bluehost.com and just do a round robin DNS to load
> balance?
That sounds like asking for trouble. With a purely shared hosting
plan, if you start creating any real load on the box they'll turn you
off.
I'd recommend using a VPS at least (the hosting page has a link to
Westhost which is as cheap as they come:
http://www.turbogears.org/preview/docs/deployment/hosting.html
)
If you're really anticipating traffic, I'd go for the dedicated box.
Mine is from NetSonic and I pay $130/month including a second hard
drive. Not the cheapest one out there, but they seem to know what
they're doing and have reliable power backup, etc.
BTW, I do also use cheap accounts for my high-bandwidth hosting (my
video files and the eggs). I have a little TG app that handles round
robin redirection between the servers (and gives me file stats at the
same time).
Kevin
Alberto Valverde
> If you're really anticipating traffic, I'd go for the dedicated box.
> Mine is from NetSonic and I pay $130/month including a second hard
> drive. Not the cheapest one out there, but they seem to know what
> they're doing and have reliable power backup, etc.
Just wanted to mention that I have a ded. server at Netsonic too and
I'm, so far (almost 2 years) very happy with their service. No
downtime yet, good bandwith and the "live" tech-support is really
competent.
My 0.2€ for Netsonic ;)
Alberto
dberger
them starting at $30 and although I haven't beat the thing hard, it's
served me well.
Kevin Dangoor
That price is insane.
Comparing apples to apples, they're actually about the same price as
Netsonic. But if you don't need as many apples, so to speak, as what
you get from Netsonic, that's a great deal. Their colo prices seem
quite reasonable, too.
Kevin