N. Alex Rupp's Blog

Looking for a home for my SnipSnap

Here's a short list of general features I'm looking for, sorted by priority:

* Tomcat 5 (what sane person would pay for tomcat 4?)
* Dedicated JVM
* MySQL Database
* 200 - 500 MB disk space
* At least 2048 MB of bandwidth per month, though I doubt I'll need it.
* SSL Certs available
* At least 1 primary domain
* n Subdomains (not rocket science, here)
* Raw log access
* SSH / SCP / SFTP access for posting files.

At the price that some hosting providers charge for the above, I'd be better off to relax a little on uptime expectations, buy one of those sweet Mac Minis for a web server, load a basic environment into it and throw some money at a friend for a static IP and tell him to use the machine as a bookend. Does this sound familiar to the rest of you? Why is Java web hosting so poorly represented, or did I miss some brilliant dev mecca?

Please feel free to post suggestions, comments and flames below.

Comments

• KGB Internet works well for me, at a reasonable price too.

  Posted by: mraible on August 26, 2005 at 02:24 PM

• I just moved Getahead where DWR is hosted off SnipSnap and onto Drupal.

  From what I could see SnipSnap was at best in perpetual beta, and at worst dead - 2 posts in the past 4 months and all the talk is about re-architecting it into modules.

  I love to see SnipSnap move on and fix bugs but the blog never seemed to work properly, and I finally gave up when a crashed VM took out the file-store, so it refused to start again.

  Eventually I gave up and used Drupal instead.
  

  Posted by: joe_walker on August 26, 2005 at 03:26 PM

• Check out rimuhosting. They're linux/geek/java friendly people who focus on providing VPS hosting. In essence you'd be getting your own server for the price some other places charge for a shared host, which means you can customize it your way without going broke.

  Posted by: robogeek on August 27, 2005 at 11:32 AM

• Another recommendation for rimuhosting. Complete flexibility, great support, and I think the price is good.

  Posted by: detorres on August 30, 2005 at 08:16 AM

• Ditto Matt's comment - KGBInternet is well worth a look. That's where my blog is hosted.

  Posted by: simongbrown on August 30, 2005 at 08:17 AM

• Ditto on KGBInternet - Keith has answered every question I've had immediately and goes the extra mile. It's a great service, good price, and you can get JBoss too. If you want more control I found a $50/month "value server" that is a Pentium 1.4 running Fedora with 512MB RAM and 60 GB drive (fine for my needs) at Aplus.net. I have some custom PostgreSQL apps and wanted MySQL for blogging/etc., so I can set up both, plus have the gigs of space for my photo albums, etc.

  Posted by: michaelbushe on August 30, 2005 at 11:07 AM

• Well, sheesh--at least two long lost friends referred me to rimuhosting. It looks like we have a clear winner. From what I can tell, they're the Al's Breakfast of web hosting.

  I'll look into it right away. Thank you guys :-)

  Posted by: n_alex on August 30, 2005 at 01:49 PM

• Does anyone know of a hosting service in the UK? I cannot find one!

  Posted by: pkimber on August 30, 2005 at 03:14 PM

• Why do you care what country it's in?

  Posted by: tomdavies on August 30, 2005 at 07:33 PM

• And a third recommendation for KGB Internet - they've responded (usefully!) in less than fifteen minutes every time I've needed any support.

  Posted by: inigo on August 31, 2005 at 12:45 AM

• I have to do Talking Photo Album project
  is it available in this site?
  how i can download JAI documentation?
  please replay to me as soon as possiple :)

  Posted by: alaam on December 02, 2006 at 03:22 AM

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