[Discuss] Virtual hosting provider

[Bill Bogstad]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:
>> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
>> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Dave Peters
>>
>> Any suggestion for virtual hosting server provider? blueHost? Hostmonster,
>> Godaddy, inmotion or networksolutions?
>
> What do you want to accomplish?  I recently learned that certain Amazon
> micro instances are free if your usage is below a certain threshold and you
> meet some other criteria.  A micro instance is something like 8G hard drive
> and 640M ram and 1-2 cpu units.  More than enough to host some webpages, and
> various other tasks.  This is how I host nedharvey.com right now, and some
> other domains.

I looked at micro-instances at one point.  The only thing is that it
appears that it is only free for the first year:

http://aws.amazon.com/free/

Do you have pointers to anything which is free after a year?

Thanks,
Bill Bogstad