This is the first blog post on HostingFu, a new blog/website that is intended to document my experience with web hosting.

Hosting-Fu

It’s a weird name, isn’t it? “Fu” was derived from the Chinese word Kung-Fu which () means expertise or skills. I am hoping to eventually grow expertise in the scope of web hosting.

Site Platform

This site is currently running a vanilla copy of Drupal 4.7.0 with very small number of extra modules installed. It provides me flexibility to blog, and a room to grow if the site gets larger.

Current Hosts

I have been hosting various websites since late ‘99 on my home line (on the speedy 33kbps upload ‘til mid-2002), but has only step up to commercial web hosting in October 2005. Currently I have around a dozen or so websites hosted on:

• DreamHost — a popular LA-based shared hosting famous for their massive storage and bandwidth.
• Unixshell# — affordable Linux VPS hosting based in US east coast.
• Jumba — a cheap Australia-based shared hosting on cPanel.

I am still hosting some sites on my 512k/512k ADSL link at home on a static IP via Exetel. I am hoping to review these services in the future on this site.