Need suggestion for a domain/email hosting solution

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Re: Need suggestion for a domain/email hosting solution

@NaMaan

What kind of app you are planning to host? List technologies.

@us1415

Can you do it on a local machine? That way you will only need a domain. The link below is for your web hosting and database. If you need help on setting up an apache2 config let me know. I am hosting about 6 django web apps and 8 postgresql databases on one machine.

Creating Your Own Webserver and Hosting A Website from Your Linux Box

This one below is for email alternatives:

How to run your own e-mail server with your own domain, part 1 | Ars Technica

@OYMWA

We host our clinic’s website on godaddy. It is a bit expensive, but for us it is a business expense. Promotional period we paid $190 for two years. WordPress webhosting, unlimited email, calendar ( was free as part of promotion ) and 2 GB storage. For the next 2 years, we paid around $400.00. We don’t use databases, but use webservices to integrate with our patient management system.

Can you use subdomains to do testing etc? Many of these plans offer free subdomains.

@OYMWA

:k:

Maybe you can make do with something like dyndns.org and not buy a domain.

@MustafaQuraishi

why do you need multiple hosting/domain names for testing ? you can setup your local boxes to do so … if not, then there are 10s of cloud vm’s that you can use. Not sure what technology stack you are using but lots of vm’s do provide you pure linux vm that you can setup for any purpose. checkout cloud9, nitrous, koding etc …

The software that i work on is a multi-region software and we test it by mocking the other regions. We mock it either using inmemory servers with inmemory db … or we set up temporary servers on our local vm’s … but again, it depends on what and how the software is designed.

Thanks for your suggestions. This is a whole new setup with less resources so more time will be consumed on other stuff so the less of a headache the better it is, atleast for now.

One domain is needed to host our own website. Testing websites are needed to host the client’s websites temporarily to show them progress. As far as technologies are concerned, it’ll be mainly PHP related solutions like magento, joomla, drupal etc. As a startup the cost is needed to be lowest and as i said, less of the other headache as a lot of focus will be on marketing. Hosting packages seem to be the way to go for now instead of having our servers setup.
hope that answers the questions, will keep you posted. :k: