[plug] [OTish] Hosting for Large Website with DB.

[Trevor Phillips]

We have a client for whom we are researching costs of hosting a website 
externally. The client is a pretty large organisation being a conglomeration 
of businesses, Govt & Education, and the Website is a mix of static and 
dynamic content, with potentially a large amount of statistical info stored 
in a DB, and presented in fixed views and searchable forms dynamically.

Can anyone recommend a Hosting provider who may be able to cater to these 
requirements at a reasonable price? Preferrably the server would be Apache, 
the DB would be MySQL, and they'd not have a problem with mod_perl and normal 
CGI support.

One option is to go the full Co-location way, but this site could probably 
quite happily coexist on an existing box with other sites, and it would be 
preferrable if someone else could maintain the Operational aspects of the box 
(OS, security patches, backups, etc...)

iiNet has a Web Affiliate deal for $1200 (for a measly 50Mb hosting) but only 
alludes to DB access, and "CGI Support" could mean CGIs (whereas a dynamic 
site really needs at least FastCGIs, and preferrably mod_perl or sim...)

WestNet's excuse for DB hosting seems to be MS Access. Ugh!

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