[ale] Cheap hosting with both shell and admin panel

[A LeDonne]

On 8/17/06, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
> Don't actually have it yet, he is waiting for me to get my ducks in a row.
> One part is a script that runs from cron. This checks ten diffrent news
> servers (with their permission) at some set interval for new groups. The
> other part is a simple search page that checks one group name at a time
> against the ten stored lists and returns a short list of results. It also
> checks for the presence of a control message at isc.org and unzips them.
>
> The tool is intended for proponents of new groups. Both to check if one
> already exists before proposing, and tell how well a new group is
> propagating after the fact.
>
> Once I get it up and running, if anyone knows of a news server that would
> like the free publicity of being included just let me know.

I can confirm that ASmallOrange allows cron jobs (can be administered
either through cPanel or the command line). Also, the forums indicate
that they are willing to open port 119 outbound on their systems,
again just for the asking.

Good luck!

-A