[nmglug] WWW service provided

[Aaron Birenboim]

I need to find a new Internet hosting provider.
All I used them for was:

  * e-mail forwarding
       - forward the vanity domain addresses to appropriate
              yahoo/google mail accounts
  * DNS management
      - use their DNS server to point some sub-domains
         to the static IPs at our office
  * WWW/storage?
        We really did not use WWW,
        We just used the WWW storage area
        for on-line backups.

Both godaddy and 1and1 offer WWW hosting plans
with 150-250 GB storage for around $10/month.
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*** Anybody know if we will be able to get away with
*** using them as detailed above?
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i.e.  We really didn't use the WWW hosting,
      but we pushed some cyphertext up there for backup.

Both claim some sort of ssh access.
It is my hope that we can find a way to run
something like rsync over that ssh,
and perhaps make our cyphertext non-readable
to the WWW server.  Worst case, put
it in a folder that is shut off using
  .htaccess?

The off-line storage will be just for a few critical things,
like source code repositories.
I think we can keep it to about 10-40GB (depending on pruning),
with very little storage update bandwidth.

  Thanks for any advice,

         aaron