[CentralOH] WSGI Friendly Hosting

[Issac Kelly]

It's definitely possible to do that, but yeah, it's ~$50/yr. Maybe you can
just ask somebody @ the non-profit to donate it? $150/yr TOTAL for web fees
seems totally reasonable.

The other thing is that there is a little cognative dissonance between
switching URLs for the 'secure' site. to the point of it feeling less
secure for a lot of people to be kicked around between several sites, that
they may or might not know the source.

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Mark Erbaugh <mark at microenh.com> wrote:

> Issac,
>
> Thanks for the information.  I have one website for a volunteer non-profit
> where we sometimes need to submit the applicant's personal information. The
> only thing in that process that isn't public information is the SSN.  I've
> donated the hosting but didn't want to pay the extra if I didn't have to.
>
> If I do buy a static IP address and SSL certificate for a single domain,
> would it be possible to maintain multiple non-secure domains that link to
> webpages under the secure domain when they need secure transfers, or would
> that be a lot of work to save $4 a month?
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> No matter where you are, you need 1 static IP address per SSL certificate,
> your certicicate can cover either one fully qualified domain (x.you.com,
> or you.com) OR a much more costly wildcard SSL *.you.com
>
> $4/mo is about the standard, Rackspace will do it for $3/mo last I
> checked, but you're going to be managing everything about your server there
> (it's a VPS, not managed hosting) and it starts @ $9/mo.
>
> Sometime in the future the tech will be available for this not to be such
> a pain, but that's just the way it is right now.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Mark Erbaugh <mark at microenh.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for suggestions for an online hosting service that supports
>> WSGI, shell accounts and wildcard domain (i.e. *.microenh.com) HTTPS.
>>
>> I've been using Dreamhost for several years and I'm pleased with them.
>> While it's labeled 'experimental', I've been running a couple of small
>> Pyramid-based (WSGI) websites and they seem to work.  My problem is HTTPS.
>>  According to the Dreamhost docs, to add HTTPS, I need to obtain a static
>> IP address from them which is $4/month additional. Currently, my monthly
>> bill is only $8/month, so that's a 50% increase. Also, the HTTPS would only
>> apply to one domain. I currently run several websites using a sub domain
>> and it looks like I'd have to get static IP addresses for each of them
>> (another $4/month) if I wanted HTTPS.
>>
>> Mark
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