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Melchior



Joined: 19 Feb 2002
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Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:04 am    Post subject: Webhost recommendations? Reply with quote

Ugh, my current webhost, bluedomino.com, has given me nothing but headaches for the past 7 months (well, there've been a few good months in there, but not good enough to make up for the headaches in the bad ones...). The latest problems cropped up a month and a half ago and the frontline-support people tell me to email my server admins, and the server admins don't fix things or answer my emails. argh! I'm dead-tired of their "99.999% guaranteed uptime". Yeah, "prove" to them that your site's been down for an hour, and they give you a day's credit. Their entire system goes down for a week and corrupts email accounts because of an "emergency security update", and when it comes back up, no credits to my account. Bastards. (that was around the 7-months-ago mark, a bad time for me to change hosts).

I'VE HAD IT! SERENITY NOW!

My (monthly) hosting plan was auto-renewed yesterday, and I plan on moving to a new host before the month is up! I'm looking for about 500MB of webspace, at least 5GB/month bandwidth, mailing lists, SSI, PHP, MySQL, and the ability to host either two or three domains. Currently I'm paying US$19/month, and I'm looking to pay less.

Does anybody here have any suggestions on webhosting companies that you have experience with that might fit the bill for me? Actually, I'm pretty flexible on what I'm looking for, it doesn't even have to have everything I noted above, as long as the service is reliable! Argh, fricking configurations errors at every corner on Bluedomino, thanks to whatever clueless monkeys set up my account, or whatever clueless monkeys administer the servers, or the assholes who run the company...

SERENITY NOW!
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xo
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's been awhile since I've looked for shared hosting, so my information may be out of date.

At one time I've used Pair and csoft. Pair is one of the big ones and they are a bit pricey, but I think they have a good uptime rep. I was with them about 1.5 years, I left because of pricing and because the way they handled email (I think that's changed). Their advanced account seems to be pretty close to what you're looking for except it doesn't mention MySQL (?!?).

csoft is a much smaller outfit but I never had any problems other than a 2 day outage. I was with them about 2 years. I left because I moved to a dedicated server.

I track http://webhostingtalk.com/ for people's opinions and general trends on hot-or-not for hosting services. I'd definitely recommend spending some time looking through their forums to get a pulse on things.

-xo
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 8:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

www.phpwebhosting.com

Its $9.95/month.

They have 125mb and you can request more for free, they just do a check to see that you aren't hosting porn or licensed anime ;P

Has everything you mentioned and it is easy interface. I usually don't have problems with the site being down ever except when a neighbor got posted on slashdot.
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