Website Hosting

Mirwin has used a number of hosting providers in the past (from Dreamhost and GoDaddy to GNi and Host Virtual). We are currently running with Host Virtual and looking to expand back into an PDX datacenter and possibly in Texas. The added redundancy is for Mirwin’s new service offering: Web and data hosting for our customers. Starting at $6/month, we provide full-service administration and redundant website hosting. Our web design team has produced enough sites that the need for a hosting plan grew out naturally. More news to follow.

Setting up proper backup and redundancy for web hosts will be a source of many future posts. To get things situated, though, I’ll be installing GRSecurity, a hardening set of linux patches to minimize our security footprint. Next, an application firewall like mod_security, to proactively catch scans, XSS attacks and SQL injection attempts.

If all goes well, our Portland development machine might even house a semi-pro FPS gaming team.