Hello, I have an app that is no longer available through my self hosted control panel... for over the air distribution and I found out it's due to Godaddy's new policy of charging for this capability. The same goes for push notifications, Godaddy wants me to "upgrade" to allow this to occur. It's expensive though! How easy would it be to migrate my host solution over to a more affordable (free?) and better host provider and who would that provider be? Any suggestions?

Hostgators!

Move to Hostgator, plain and simple.

Yep - Hostgator is the cheapest way to go. You'll have to ask them to open up the necessary ports for push notifications. asmallorange.com also has affordable hosting. If you need scale, though, then look at Rackspace.

Thank you everyone.

I just use the hosting that comes with my main domain, 1and1.

I used to use a British hosting company, but since building my own server in my cupboard, it's given me 2TB of space with all the controls I want.

Thomas, you're on a static IP? I would do that, but I've only got a dynamic IP.

>with all the controls I want And potentially with all the headaches of an independent server administrator. Many times I thought of going that route, however, when I reset something and see how many things Hostgator does behind the scenes, I give up.

@Dusko... You couldn't be more wrong. If it's only going to be yourself using the thing, there is zero maintenance involved. Obviously when you get these massive hosting companies, they will have multiple servers, and inevitably (about two times a year) a hard drive will fail. They host thousands of sites - I host one. It's fine. If you don't muck about with things, it doesn't go wrong. People seem to think that anything involving an Ethernet cable or two will be nothing but problems. So I'm happy to prove those people wrong and say it was easy to set up (about 20 mins once I had everything). Plug it in... Bobs your uncle! Obviously if there did come a point where something took more than 15 minutes to fix, I'd just buy hosting, so I'm not ruling any options out. I think these day I can get about 100GB hosting for something like £120/year, which isn't bad, but at the moment I'm happy with my deal: 2TB for £5 (domain) per year. @Ed... I've got dynamic. It's no problem, like people think. It's actually a benefit because it gives you better secuirity online.

Hi Thomas.. I'm intrigued! I heard somewhere (about 10 years ago, I might add) that in order to set up your own server 'under the desk' that if your server was ever turned off, you would be pulling your hair out to get it online again? Also, if you're hosting your own domain, and you get say 100 visitors a day, have your server got the bandwidth to stop it falling over? -Jon

Sorry... I forgot to post the question as to why i came here... I'm trying to do over the air distribution for an app but the instructions seem to be iOS based. Did anybody manage to successfully do OADB for an Android App? I successfully loaded my app.apk file to my bt server in the following location: http://www.mydomain.com/BT-server/files/applications/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/install-android/app.apk ... which means i can just send people that link via email and they can download it there. But I get this error: There was a problem processing your request. This applications download directory could not be found? when I use the install screen: http://www.mydomain.com/BT-server/download/?id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXB&platform=android what's up with that!? -Jon