Find solution
What are the options for hosting a small plone site?

What are the options for hosting a small Plone site?

  • Possible Duplicate: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/20838/how-to-find-web-hosting-that-meets-my-requirements I’ve developed a portfolio website for myself using Plone 4, and I’m looking for someplace to host it. Most Plone hosting services seem to focus on large, corporate deployments, but I need something that I can afford on a very limited budget and fits a small, single-admin website. My understanding is that my basic options are thus: I can go with a hosting service that specifically provides Plone. I know of WebFaction, but what others exist? Also, I’d have two stipulations for a Plone hosting service: (a) It needs to use Plone 4, for which I’ve developed my site, and (b) it needs to allow me SSH access to a home directory (including the Plone configuration), so that I may use my custom development eggs and such. I could use a VPS hosting service. What are my options here? Again, I need something cheap and scaled to my level. I could use Amazon EC2 or a similar service (please tell me of any) and pay by the tiniest unit of data. I’m a little scared of this because I have no idea how to do a cost-benefit analysis between this and a regular VPS host. The advantage of this approach would be that I only pay for what I use, making it very scalable, but I don’t know how the overall cost would compare to any VPS host under similar circumstances. What factors enter into the cost of Amazon EC2? What can I expect to pay under either option for regular traffic for a new website? Which one is more desirable for when a rush of visitors drive up my bandwidth bill? One last note: I know Plone isn’t common for websites for individuals, but please don’t try to talk me out of it here; that’s a completely different subject. For now, assume I’m sticking with Plone for good. Also, I have seen the http://plone.org/support/hosting-providers—it’s twenty pages long, and the first page was nothing but professional Plone consulting services that sometimes offer hosting for business clients. So, that wasn’t much help. Thank you!

  • Answer:

    I use Webfaction for this purpose and love it. It works wonderfully. It is also super easy to use for multiple websites. It also gives full ssh access.

Tina Russell at Webmasters Visit the source

Was this solution helpful to you?

Other answers

I'm afraid I can't give a complete answer, but there is a free option on Amazon EC2 - http://aws.amazon.com/free/ so long as storage and bandwidth remain low. It lasts for 12 months. To calculate prices if your site gets popular, have a look here: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html. Other VPS hosts have a fixed monthly price and then bandwidth etc. is in tiers, so you'd need to pick some scenarios for usage and then just compare the numbers. I couldn't tell you what "regular traffic" would be. As for VPS hosts, there are many out there. I use asmallorange.com because they do very small normal hosting at a very small price, but they also do small VPS hosting.

paulmorriss

Rackspace is a good place to go for low cost cloud hosting. Their base Linux instance runs around $11 a month + bandwidth. More importantly their instances are scalable (Amazon EC2 doesn't support instance scaling). Bandwidth is also quite affordable. As for cost-benefit, use their cost estimate tool as a reference point. See http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/. Their tech support is also top notch in my experience. They certainly live up to their slogan "Fanatical Support". Bjorn

Bjorn Aadnesgaard

Related Q & A:

Just Added Q & A:

Find solution

For every problem there is a solution! Proved by Solucija.

  • Got an issue and looking for advice?

  • Ask Solucija to search every corner of the Web for help.

  • Get workable solutions and helpful tips in a moment.

Just ask Solucija about an issue you face and immediately get a list of ready solutions, answers and tips from other Internet users. We always provide the most suitable and complete answer to your question at the top, along with a few good alternatives below.