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Re: Hosting Suggestions - No. 702376

freemont

2007-01-30, 9:58 am

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:34:35 +0000, Blinky the Shark writ:

> So what's today's best bets?

I signed up with this place upon a friend's recommendation after Moose went
belly-up, and they've been good for my modest needs. I've never seen
them mentioned here. No complaints so far.

http://imhosted.com/

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Blinky the Shark

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

freemont wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:34:35 +0000, Blinky the Shark writ:
>
>
> I signed up with this place upon a friend's recommendation after Moose went
> belly-up, and they've been good for my modest needs. I've never seen
> them mentioned here. No complaints so far.
>
> http://imhosted.com/

Thanks!

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Paul Watt

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

"Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
news:slrnerndpb.umr.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net...
> I'm finally fed up with Page-Zone, suffering some *new* issues after the
> server changes that I mustered the patience to bear.
>
> Naturally, I went back through thousands of posts here, looking for
> recomendations. Oddly, while it *feels* like there's a thread on that
> all of the time, I only found a few, and they don't work for me.
>
> So what's today's best bets?
>
> Rather than make this tedious for you with my specific needs (which
> aren't huge: a few domains, PHP, cPanel...), just toss me a name or two,
> and I'll do the shopping.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> PS If you *do* want a better idea of my needs, here ya go. I signed up
> for the Standard package, here, yesterday, but had all kind of trouble
> accessing my account *and* support (example: I couldn't create a ticket
> without registering at Support, and the registration form wouldn't let
> me register there). Features and multiple domains were good and space
> and bandwith were more than I need; price seemed excellent:
>
> http://www.cirtexhosting.com/shared.shtml
>
>

Hey,
I've been really happy with www.heartinternet.co.uk. Been hosting with them
for a couple of years, NO downtime that I can see.

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Cheers

Paul watt
http://www.paulwattdesigns.com

Blinky the Shark

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

Paul Watt wrote:

> I've been really happy with www.heartinternet.co.uk. Been hosting with them
> for a couple of years, NO downtime that I can see.

Thanks, Paul.

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fiatlux5762

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

My suggestion is that you consider actual performance data in your
quest for a new web hosting company. Visit http://uptime.netcraft.com/
perf/reports/Hosters. The page gives you near-real-time (15 minutes)
performance information for about 50 top web hosting companies. Since
these companies are allowing public posting of their performance data
it seems reasonable to say that they will do everything in their power
to avoid outages and to keep top notch performance going. I wish this
type of information was available for all web hosting providers.

>From the companies listed you should have no trouble finding several
that support your specific technical requirements. I hope this helps!

Jason
http://itechguide.com

On Jan 27, 3:34 pm, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:
> I'm finally fed up with Page-Zone, suffering some *new* issues after the
> server changes that I mustered the patience to bear.
>
> Naturally, I went back through thousands of posts here, looking for
> recomendations. Oddly, while it *feels* like there's a thread on that
> all of the time, I only found a few, and they don't work for me.
>
> So what's today's best bets?
>
> Rather than make this tedious for you with my specific needs (which
> aren't huge: a few domains, PHP, cPanel...), just toss me a name or two,
> and I'll do the shopping.
>
> Thanks!
>
> PS If you *do* want a better idea of my needs, here ya go. I signed up
> for the Standard package, here, yesterday, but had all kind of trouble
> accessing my account *and* support (example: I couldn't create a ticket
> without registering at Support, and the registration form wouldn't let
> me register there). Features and multiple domains were good and space
> and bandwith were more than I need; price seemed excellent:
>
> http://www.cirtexhosting.com/shared.shtml
>
> --
> Blinky RLU 297263
> Killing all posts from Google Groups
> The Usenet Improvement Project:http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

saz

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

In article <slrnerndpb.umr.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
no.spam@box.invalid says...
> I'm finally fed up with Page-Zone, suffering some *new* issues after the
> server changes that I mustered the patience to bear.
>
> Naturally, I went back through thousands of posts here, looking for
> recomendations. Oddly, while it *feels* like there's a thread on that
> all of the time, I only found a few, and they don't work for me.
>
> So what's today's best bets?
>
> Rather than make this tedious for you with my specific needs (which
> aren't huge: a few domains, PHP, cPanel...), just toss me a name or two,
> and I'll do the shopping.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> PS If you *do* want a better idea of my needs, here ya go. I signed up
> for the Standard package, here, yesterday, but had all kind of trouble
> accessing my account *and* support (example: I couldn't create a ticket
> without registering at Support, and the registration form wouldn't let
> me register there). Features and multiple domains were good and space
> and bandwith were more than I need; price seemed excellent:
>
> http://www.cirtexhosting.com/shared.shtml
>
>
>
I left Page-Zone and went to a VPS at Servint. It's more expensive than
the others mentioned here, but I have had ZERO downtime in the past two
months.

I now have the same attitude I heard often in this forum - when it comes
to hosting, you get what you pay for.

saz

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

In article <4e2b2$45bc3a32$471eef5e$27881@ALLTEL.NET>,
freemont@spammenotfreemontsoffice.com says...
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:34:35 +0000, Blinky the Shark writ:
>
>
> I signed up with this place upon a friend's recommendation after Moose went
> belly-up, and they've been good for my modest needs. I've never seen
> them mentioned here. No complaints so far.
>
> http://imhosted.com/
>
>
Not to start a new thread, but one of my clients had a very bad
experience with ImHosted. I got involved and found them to be less than
helpful in fixing THEIR problem in regards to a script I had written
that suddenly stopped working on their servers (it worked on mine).
They spent 2 days insisting it was my fault until I finally got a
technician to look further into the problem. It took another 5 days to
get it resolved.

Just a "heads up".

freemont

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:24:37 -0600, saz writ:

> Not to start a new thread, but one of my clients had a very bad
> experience with ImHosted.

<shnip>

> Just a "heads up".

Thanks! :-)

Although I bet somebody, somewhere, has had a bad experience with every
hosting outfit in existence, at some time. ;-)

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Karl Groves

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

saz <saz1958@nospammersexcite.com> wrote in news:MPG.2026a4da2dcd52709898c9
@newsgroups.comcast.net:

> I left Page-Zone and went to a VPS at Servint. It's more expensive than
> the others mentioned here, but I have had ZERO downtime in the past two
> months.
>
> I now have the same attitude I heard often in this forum - when it comes
> to hosting, you get what you pay for.
>

Servint was my second choice, after PowerVPS. I'm happy with PowerVPS at
the moment, but if things go sour, Servint will be my next move.

--
Karl Groves
http://karlcore.com
http://chevelle.karlcore.com

Scott Bryce

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

saz wrote:

> I left Page-Zone and went to a VPS at Servint. It's more expensive
> than the others mentioned here,

I made the same move, and am very happy about it. But a VPS is probably
more than the OP needs, and it will cost him about 10 times what he was
paying at Page-Zone.

> but I have had ZERO downtime in the past two months.

I wish I could say the same. I will say that ServInt's tech support has
been excellent.

> I now have the same attitude I heard often in this forum - when it
> comes to hosting, you get what you pay for.

Agreed. I wish I made the move sooner.

Alex

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

> "Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
> news:slrnerndpb.umr.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net...
> I'm finally fed up with Page-Zone, suffering some *new* issues after the
> server changes that I mustered the patience to bear.
> So what's today's best bets?

Look at Hostgator.com. I recently posted a gripe about one aspect of their
operations (a somewhat slow introduction to existing customers of a big
boost in space and bandwidth, at no increase in cost.) But I've had terrific
service from their support staff, and essentially zero downtime for the past
several months. Since new customers immediately get the benefit of the
larger capacity, you might want to include Hostgator in your shopping.

Alex

Blinky the Shark

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

saz wrote:
> In article <slrnerndpb.umr.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
> no.spam@box.invalid says...
> I left Page-Zone and went to a VPS at Servint. It's more expensive than
> the others mentioned here, but I have had ZERO downtime in the past two
> months.

Thanks. I looked at them last night.

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HostSearch.com

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

Blinky the Shark

I am sure you will get good advice from the group, but if not, please
visit http://www.hostsearch.com - this is the biggest pool of
information about web hosts currently available and what is good about
it is that people can leave comments so you get a feel for the type of
service a host provides. There are a number of other web hosting
directories on the Internet as well as HostSearch.

HostSearch.com

On Jan 28, 3:34 am, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:
> I'm finally fed up with Page-Zone, suffering some *new* issues after the
> server changes that I mustered the patience to bear.
>
> Naturally, I went back through thousands of posts here, looking for
> recomendations. Oddly, while it *feels* like there's a thread on that
> all of the time, I only found a few, and they don't work for me.
>
> So what's today's best bets?
>
> Rather than make this tedious for you with my specific needs (which
> aren't huge: a few domains, PHP, cPanel...), just toss me a name or two,
> and I'll do the shopping.
>
> Thanks!
>
> PS If you *do* want a better idea of my needs, here ya go. I signed up
> for the Standard package, here, yesterday, but had all kind of trouble
> accessing my account *and* support (example: I couldn't create a ticket
> without registering at Support, and the registration form wouldn't let
> me register there). Features and multiple domains were good and space
> and bandwith were more than I need; price seemed excellent:
>
> http://www.cirtexhosting.com/shared.shtml
>
> --
> Blinky RLU 297263
> Killing all posts from Google Groups
> The Usenet Improvement Project:http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

tendim

2007-01-30, 9:59 am

On Jan 27, 3:34 pm, Blinky the Shark <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:
> Rather than make this tedious for you with my specific needs (which
> aren't huge: a few domains, PHP, cPanel...), just toss me a name or two,
> and I'll do the shopping.

I've been with TotalChoiceHosting (http://www.totalchoicehosting/) for
a few years, and haven't had many problems. Their cPanel seems to go
down every once in a while, but the actual webpage doesn't. I once
had a problem with eMail which was corrected within 1/2 hour thanks to
their "live" online chat support.

For their online mail they have both Horde and SquirrelMail. SM
hasn't worked in a few weeks but I've been too lazy to contact them
and see if it is something on my end or their end.

Given the price to bandwidth/storage/accounts ratio, they are really
good IMO.