[plug] hosting

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009, Gregory Orange wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I posted here a while back about a web shop, and got quite helpful 
> responses, thanks all. Now that we've settled upon Magento as a platform 
> and are paying someone to build the actual site, we're thinking about 
> hosting space. For the short term we'll use the people who are building 
> the site because that allows time for it to get settled and working 
> properly, and will be easy access for them to fix any problems.
> 
> After a few months, we'd like to at least consider other hosting, to 
> make sure we're getting a reasonable deal. So, my question - can you 
> give me an idea of hosting providers that are worth their salt, and how 
> much we should expect to pay to host a web shop. The business is 
> for-profit, but hardly any (and no income for the owners) - maybe in 
> time it will grow. I don't know where it should be hosted, but all of 
> the customers are in Western Australia, perhaps one day there will be 
> other Australian customers.

G'day,

My company (Xenion) provides a variety of services, including hosting,
colocation and content delivery stuff. I also put quite a bit of effort
back into the projects that I use - I'm contributing stability patches
back to Xen, performance patches back to Squid and all of the improvements
that my little company here develops will be open sourced.

My pricing list and more is available on the products webpage -
http://www.xenion.com.au/products/webhosting.html .

> If we do change hosting, I imagine migration will be a cinch? Dump the 
> MySQL database, tar up the entire htdocs (or whatever) dir; move over to 
> the new environment; change DNS, and all's peachy... right? Some down 
> time I suppose, so that would have to be publicised.

As patrick has said, it should be a cinch yes.

Good luck!



Adrian