Dreamweaver - OT: reliable, affordable Canadian web hosting

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OT: reliable, affordable Canadian web hosting

Kathie McLaughlin

2004-04-12, 4:36 am

My hosting contract is up for renewal at the end of this month and I'm
shopping around for alternatives. Currently I pay $15 a month for 15mb of
storage and a 1k bandwidth cap, no database support.

Because of fluctuating exchange rates, I prefer to deal with a hosting
service that will, at the very least, bill me in Canadian currency. And
obviously I'm looking for as near-100%-uptime as I can get.

I'd be grateful for any recommendations.
Kathie

Alan

2004-04-12, 4:36 am

they don't offer Canadian billing- but i'm happy with
http://affordablehost.com
Look in the resellers link, if you want to put other domains on the same
account, and ask for Web Host Manager to be setup.

only aggravation so far, they don't do recurring card charges, so i either
pay for a block of months ahead, or pay online each month.

offhand, you should be able to get tons more "stuff" for the same or not
much more than you are presently paying.

suggestion?

before going with a host- suggest doing a search on
http://groups.google.com using their business name or domain name, to see if
people have been yelling...

> My hosting contract is up for renewal at the end of this month and I'm
> shopping around for alternatives. Currently I pay $15 a month for 15mb of
> storage and a 1k bandwidth cap, no database support.
>
> Because of fluctuating exchange rates, I prefer to deal with a hosting
> service that will, at the very least, bill me in Canadian currency. And
> obviously I'm looking for as near-100%-uptime as I can get.
>
> I'd be grateful for any recommendations.
> Kathie
>
>

Dan Vendel *GOF*

2004-04-12, 4:36 am

Kathie McLaughlin wrote:

> My hosting contract is up for renewal at the end of this month and I'm
> shopping around for alternatives. Currently I pay $15 a month for 15mb of
> storage and a 1k bandwidth cap, no database support.
>
> Because of fluctuating exchange rates, I prefer to deal with a hosting
> service that will, at the very least, bill me in Canadian currency. And
> obviously I'm looking for as near-100%-uptime as I can get.
>
> I'd be grateful for any recommendations.
> Kathie
>
>

I use one up in Canada (I think?): www.100megswebhosting.com.
*nix, CPanel, 100Mb, "all" script languages supported, etc. Plus a
really, really good support 7/24.

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Joe Makowiec

2004-04-12, 4:37 am

On 09 Apr 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Kathie McLaughlin wrote:

> Because of fluctuating exchange rates, I prefer to deal with a hosting
> service that will, at the very least, bill me in Canadian currency.

Why? The exchange rate change over the past year has favored the
Canadian dollar. (http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxhistory - 04/03/2003
1.47060; 04/09/2004 1.32730) So for a US$20 hosting plan that you
were paying CA$30 for a year ago, you're paying CA$26 now.

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Kathie McLaughlin

2004-04-12, 4:37 am

Thanks very much for the suggestions, guys. I have indeed been getting a
bad deal with my current host!
-K.

"Alan" <dont_mail_me_period@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:BC9C7E0F.1838DC%dont_mail_me_period@macromedia.com...
> they don't offer Canadian billing- but i'm happy with
> http://affordablehost.com
> Look in the resellers link, if you want to put other domains on the same
> account, and ask for Web Host Manager to be setup.
>
> only aggravation so far, they don't do recurring card charges, so i either
> pay for a block of months ahead, or pay online each month.
>
> offhand, you should be able to get tons more "stuff" for the same or not
> much more than you are presently paying.
>
> suggestion?
>
> before going with a host- suggest doing a search on
> http://groups.google.com using their business name or domain name, to see
if
> people have been yelling...
>
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>

raizel

2004-04-12, 4:37 am

In article <c5701g$slb$1@forums.macromedia.com>,
"Kathie McLaughlin" <kathie.mclaughlinNOSPAM@rogers.com> wrote:

> My hosting contract is up for renewal at the end of this month and I'm
> shopping around for alternatives. Currently I pay $15 a month for 15mb of
> storage and a 1k bandwidth cap, no database support.
>
> Because of fluctuating exchange rates, I prefer to deal with a hosting
> service that will, at the very least, bill me in Canadian currency. And
> obviously I'm looking for as near-100%-uptime as I can get.
>
> I'd be grateful for any recommendations.
> Kathie

I pay $10/US for 500mb space and TONS of other goodies. Exchange hasn't
been that bad to want a Canadian host. http://dreamhost.com/ -- very
satisfied. Support via email, uptime usually 99.7%, great folks to deal
with.

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