On Thu, Aug 30, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Joe Wronski wrote:
> If it's OK to piggyback a new question on this one:
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> Any recommendations for one that is reliable, cheap, and...
> o Runs Linux
> o Allows shell access (for things like installing new packages, or=20
> wget-ing files rather than downloading / uploading).
> o Allows cron jobs
> o Other commodities like Apache server, PHP, MySql.

If you install packages in your user directory then shared hosting from
Dreamhost would be OK and should cover everything you mentioned. But all
the packages related to anything webserver-related will already be
installed system-wide, if you need something specific that isn't already
there you should check the package to see if it can be installed and run
from a user account.

But if you need root access then you'll need a virtual private server.
And then your choice of provider offering Xen or OpenVZ or whatever
depends on whether you need custom kernel modules because the
virtualization models are different.

Best regards,

Bob

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