Dreamhost offers unlimited diskspace and bandwidth. However, if your website is a static site, you could try hosting off Amazon S3. At $0.15/GB/month for storage, it’s pretty cheap. The other pricing component is the bandwidth cost at $0.17/GB.
Per my comment, I don’t believe there is an equivalent to the “packages.debian.org” central package archive (with web interface) in CentOS. It’s something I think is really missing!
Here’s a breakdown of the major players in the external performance monitoring space: Top Shelf Webmetrics.com – largest network, great monitoring technology, fun UI Keynote.com – focused on mobile, long time player in the space Gomez.com – lots of different products, product life cycle focus Middle AlertSite.com – does a lot of things, nothing extremely … Read more
According to the FHS, /usr is for shareable, read-only data – not where you want to put the website. This is where you should put your code (for example Fedora does this for WordPress). See also the web assets packaging guide for Fedora. /var is “variable data files. This includes spool directories and files, administrative … Read more
It depends on whether you want to delegate hosting the subdomain off to a different DNS server (or to the same server, but in a different zone file). You delegate a zone when you want some other entity to control it, such as a different IT department or organization. If you do, then you need … Read more
If you have installed the nginx package from the Ubuntu repositories, you will have two directories. /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and /etc/nginx/sites-available. In the main nginx configuration, /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, you have the following line: include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf; So basically to list all available virtualhosts, you can run the following command: ls /etc/nginx/sites-available To activate one of them, run the following … Read more