If you click through, you'll find they don't offer the service yet, and they steer you toward <a href="http://slicehost.com">slicehost.com</a>, a VPS company they bought a while back.<br><br>Slicehost has a good reputation, and was my second choice the last time I was doing research on VPS hosting.<br>
<br>Sean<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca">gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
About a month ago, Montana was asking about inexpensive local hosting<br>
services. While this one isn't local, and may not be exactly what he<br>
wanted, some of you may find this useful. Their pricing for some of the<br>
services are not bad...<br>
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<font color="#888888">Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <<a href="mailto:gedetil@muug.mb.ca">gedetil@muug.mb.ca</a>><br>
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