Basic web hosting

[bburg]

There is for some time now on the 'Our Services' page the announcement: Basic Web Hosting (coming soon!). Can you already tell us something more about it?
For instance:

1. When is it coming?
2. What features are you offering?
3. Price?

Maybe I'm interested.

[Seth]

Here's the notes I have as of today (still subject to change):

Shared Web Hosting Account: $9 MRC

Base includes:
One domain name (unlimited subdomains)
Two MySQL databases (MyISAM or InnoDB)
250MB disk storage
1GB monthly transfer
Process "nice" level of 19
Web process runs as user account: no "world read" or "world write" permissions

Additional Domains: $1 MRC each
Additional transfer: $0.20 per GB
Additional storage: $1 per GB
Additional IPv4 address: $15 MRC per IP
Additional IPv6 address: free


Shared Hosting Web Priority

By default all shared web hosting accounts operate at a default priority level.
You may choose to adjust the priority level of a shared web hosting account.
Accounts with a more favorable level will run with higher priority compared
to accounts with a lower (or no) priority level. Accounts with the same priority
as another account are treated as equal.

Priority 3 (nice 14): $29 MRC
Priority 2 (nice 9): $49 MRC
Priority 1 (nice 4): $99 MRC

We haven't had much demand for shared web hosting other than from people who like the way we do things. We don't plan on trying to compare with places offering "super ultra unlimited for $1" hosting. (And that's probably not the audience we want to attract anyway.) What we can add to the table is IPv6, our track record from our other services, and a more secure shared environment by running the virtualhost as the account UID. Although forking to the UID creates additional overhead, the benefit is being able to restrict file permissions to owner-only.

[bburg]

OK, thank you. And what about functionality?

cPanel? Directadmin?
FTP? WebDAV?
SSH?

[Seth]

WebDAV and FTP certainly, but no control panels (they lack critical IPv6 support anyway the last time I checked). SSH to a shell is still under consideration, but I'm leaning towards yes since that the kind of customer we attract is the kind that would find a shell useful.

[bburg]

.....SSH to a shell is still under consideration, but I'm leaning towards yes since that the kind of customer we attract is the kind that would find a shell useful.

Yes, please. How else do we get 'control' of the website? Only via FTP?

[Seth]

.....SSH to a shell is still under consideration, but I'm leaning towards yes since that the kind of customer we attract is the kind that would find a shell useful.

Yes, please. How else do we get 'control' of the website? Only via FTP?

Other configuration will be done through the existing account control center system.