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Where are you hosted and why?

desbest

2007-03-15, 7:24 pm

Where are you hosted?
And why have you chosen to be hosted there?
I'm hosted with http://www.hostsgeneric.co.uk. because i like hosts
generic

SpaceGirl

2007-03-15, 7:24 pm

On Mar 15, 3:34 pm, "desbest" <afanintheho...@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
> Where are you hosted?
> And why have you chosen to be hosted there?
> I'm hosted withhttp://www.hostsgeneric.co.uk. because i like hosts
> generic

Two place;

My dedicated servers are with Sago Networks (http://www.sagonet.com/)
and have been great. My domains & reseller accounts are through
EasyCGI (www.easycgi.com), who have never given me issues either. For
both; a balance between great service, low cost and good reviews took
me to them in the first place, and have kept me with them for years.

DoobieDo

2007-03-15, 7:24 pm

"desbest" <afaninthehouse@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:1173972860.943518.13240@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> Where are you hosted?
> And why have you chosen to be hosted there?
> I'm hosted with http://www.hostsgeneric.co.uk. because i like hosts
> generic
>

IFL2 'cause it's only 25 miles away.... in case I ever need to kick arse.

Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk ;¬)

2007-03-15, 7:24 pm

desbest wrote:
> Where are you hosted?
> And why have you chosen to be hosted there?

http://www.your-name-here.co.uk

Why? Been with them since 2000 and just recently moved to their
"pro-hosting" package/server as I can now set up any domains I want and
set up DNS for any domain name I have registered by easily.co.uk

Good space, good bandwidth, fantastic support and a great package for a
great price. with 2 available I.P. addresses included!

What more is there to say?

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Scott Bryce

2007-03-15, 7:24 pm

desbest wrote:

> Where are you hosted?
> And why have you chosen to be hosted there?

ServInt.

I outgrew budget hosting (Page-Zone) and was looking for a better
solution. Dedicated was more than I needed. A VPS was a logical choice.
After checking out options, I narrowed it down to ServInt and PowerVPS
based on recommendations here and at WebHostingTalk.com. ServInt costs a
little more, but does a little more hand-holding with tech
support/server management. I was willing to pay the extra for the extra
support.

DoobieDo

2007-03-15, 7:24 pm

"desbest" <afaninthehouse@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:1173972860.943518.13240@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> Where are you hosted?
> And why have you chosen to be hosted there?
> I'm hosted with http://www.hostsgeneric.co.uk. because i like hosts
> generic
>

hmm... is the question about "where" you are hosted or with whom?
A geological location or a host that may be reselling space from some cheap
corner of the world?

????? and ? (just to be sure)

Matt Probert

2007-03-15, 7:24 pm

On 15 Mar 2007 09:16:23 -0700, "SpaceGirl"
<nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> wrote:

>On Mar 15, 3:34 pm, "desbest" <afanintheho...@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
>
>Two place;
>
>My dedicated servers are with Sago Networks (http://www.sagonet.com/)
>and have been great.

Their AUP is rather odd, to say the least!

>My domains & reseller accounts are through EasyCGI (www.easycgi.com),
>who have never given me issues either.

They advertise "dedicated" servers which are actually VPS, most
confusing.

Eg "Dedicated" --> "Easy CGI's VPS (Virtual Private Server) solution
provides a logical upgrade path for customers looking for advanced
hosting solutions on a dedicated system. Each VPS is fully segmented
from other VPS servers on the same hardware system, preventing any
possible problems with resource distribution. If you require a fully
managed server solution, then a VPS is the right choice for you."

But hey, if they do the job for you, that's great!

Matt

--
Documenting the banal to the bizarre
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com

Matt Probert

2007-03-15, 7:24 pm

On 15 Mar 2007 08:34:20 -0700, "desbest" <afaninthehouse@XXXXXXXXXX>
wrote:

>Where are you hosted?
>And why have you chosen to be hosted there?
>I'm hosted with http://www.hostsgeneric.co.uk. because i like hosts
>generic
>

www.tera-byte.com

The site was a hobby, once upon a time (roughly when dragons still
roamed the earth, and maidens had manners rather than attitude) and
then it was hosted with "Spaceports" which was a free service. Having
outgrown spaceports I paid for the paid hosting with the same company
(tera-byte), progressed to a VPS, and now have a dedicated server.

Along the way I got burned by endless resellers and con artists who
didn't grasp the implications of the traffic my site gets<g>

Many years later, tera-byte do the job, and if it aint bust, why fix
it?

Matt

--
Documenting the banal to the bizarre
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com

Ken Sims

2007-03-15, 7:24 pm

Hi -

On 15 Mar 2007 08:34:20 -0700, "desbest" <afaninthehouse@XXXXXXXXXX>
wrote:

>Where are you hosted?
>And why have you chosen to be hosted there?

I host myself. My websites and email are on a server that is about
six feet away. I do this for reliability. My server and my router,
both of which are Linux-based systems that I built, have been running
continuous for about 2.5 years. They were down at that time for
hardware upgrades, not because of any kind of problem. I've never
gotten that kind of reliability of any of the hosting services that
I've used, neither virtual hosting nor virtual server.

Even with the recent change in the DST start and end in the United
States, I didn't have to reboot the systems, I just had to end and
restart certain services to make sure that they picked up the changed
information. So my websites were inaccessible for some five to ten
_seconds_ and my email the same.

My main issue is connectivity failures, so I have two separate
broadband connections from two unrelated companies and I use round
robin DNS to provide crude load balancing and failover.

--
Ken
http://www.kensims.net/

E-Star

2007-03-15, 7:24 pm

Ken Sims <ng3122@kensims.#nospam#.net.invalid> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> On 15 Mar 2007 08:34:20 -0700, "desbest" <afaninthehouse@XXXXXXXXXX>
> wrote:
>
>
> I host myself. My websites and email are on a server that is about
> six feet away. I do this for reliability. My server and my router,
> both of which are Linux-based systems that I built, have been running
> continuous for about 2.5 years. They were down at that time for
> hardware upgrades, not because of any kind of problem. I've never
> gotten that kind of reliability of any of the hosting services that
> I've used, neither virtual hosting nor virtual server.
>
> Even with the recent change in the DST start and end in the United
> States, I didn't have to reboot the systems, I just had to end and
> restart certain services to make sure that they picked up the changed
> information. So my websites were inaccessible for some five to ten
> _seconds_ and my email the same.
>
> My main issue is connectivity failures, so I have two separate
> broadband connections from two unrelated companies and I use round
> robin DNS to provide crude load balancing and failover.

What distribution of Linux do you use? How do you manage both the
broadband connections using Linux?

Kim André Akerø

2007-03-15, 11:16 pm

desbest wrote:

> Where are you hosted?

Since you're asking, ProHosting. Has been a steady customer since
October 1999 (on the same hosting account).
http://www.prohosting.com/

> And why have you chosen to be hosted there?

I used them once before (about a year or two before i rejoined their
customer base in 1999, I'm not entirely sure), and back then, I believe
I found them at random. Since it was a long time ago, I can't even
remember how I found them in the first place.

I've stayed on because I've always received great service whenever I
had problems, and they've kept their own uptime guarantee so far (way
above keeping it, actually).

--
Kim André Akerø
- kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com
(remove NOSPAM to contact me directly)

Toby A Inkster

2007-03-15, 11:16 pm

E-Star wrote:

> What distribution of Linux do you use? How do you manage both the
> broadband connections using Linux?

You just need a router that has multiple WAN ports. I rather like the
ZyWALL 70 UTM, but there are probably cheaper ones that do the job; or you
could always create your own router with three Ethernet cards and an old
200 MHz Pentium II running Debian.

--
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Ken Sims

2007-03-16, 4:17 am

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:14:59 +0000, Toby A Inkster
<usenet200703@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

>E-Star wrote:
>
>
>You just need a router that has multiple WAN ports. I rather like the
>ZyWALL 70 UTM, but there are probably cheaper ones that do the job; or you
>could always create your own router with three Ethernet cards and an old
>200 MHz Pentium II running Debian.

I didn't see E-Star's message (possibly in my killfile) but I'm still
using RedHat 9. It was being an active distribution when I first set
these systems up and they're still running rock solid. I'll switch to
a newer distribution one of these years.

Four ethernet cards: WAN1, WAN2, DMZ, and LAN, with a slot for a fifth
card.

All of the routing stuff I put together myself. iptables commands to
set up the DNAT and SNAT stuff, etc. ip commands to set up source
address routing to make sure that packets to external client
connections go back out the same interface that they came in on. There
is an IP address alias on the server for each WAN IP address and
separate DNATing so that the router system knows which interface the
request came in through.

--
Ken
http://www.kensims.net/

Roman

2007-03-17, 7:22 pm

desbest wrote:
> Where are you hosted?
> And why have you chosen to be hosted there?
> I'm hosted with http://www.hostsgeneric.co.uk. because i like hosts
> generic
>

I just joined this group by recommendation. I am hardly a webmaster, a
greenhorn, but dangerous enough ;) Please bear with me.

Anyway, I just moved my online store to 1and1.com from BlueHost and the
reason is that BlueHost has only one generic package and 1and1 offers 4
levels of hosting, where most of hobby sites stay with the cheaper
versions I assume.

My store gets between 10-30 UVs a day. I know this is nothing, but is
growing. Sometimes I spent hours updating inventory and I noticed
website was slowing into crawl, I suspect some other website was
monopolizing the resources. According to domaintools.com this server had
950 websites on it. My 1and1 business hosting has 107 websites, while I
myself have about 13 domains and subdomains there. So I guess there
could be some 20-40 customers hosted on that particular shared server.

BlueHost had fast support but irrelevant uselless responses. Control
panel was kind of stupid because it used non-standard ports, which may
be blocked if you are trying to get there for quick fix from unusual
place. I think they grow faster than they expected and their servers are
overloaded more than they admit. I am still in transition to 1and1 and
they just changed IPs, which is no biggie if you use their own
nameservers, but if you have DNS elsewhere (some of my subdomains are
elsewhere and I needed generic DNS) - then it is a 48hr problem.

1and1 has fancy control panel on regular port 80 and you get well
secured SSL access. I tried to browse other's accounts on that disk
array and altrhough I could see the account numbers (which are 9 digit
numbers) I could not access anything.

Before 1and1 I was with StartLogic for 2 years. It may have been ok
cheap hosting, but security was non-existent. I wrote a PHP script for
browsing the disk and was able to get to other people's accounts and
read the database passwords in their PHP files. Then I quickly
backed-off to BlueHost.

Charles Sweeney

2007-03-24, 7:20 pm

desbest wrote

> Where are you hosted?
> And why have you chosen to be hosted there?
> I'm hosted with http://www.hostsgeneric.co.uk. because i like hosts
> generic

servermatrix.com

Good prices, good service.

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

nc7070

2007-03-26, 7:21 pm

On Mar 24, 6:08 pm, Charles Sweeney <m...@charlessweeney.com> wrote:
> desbest wrote
>
>
> servermatrix.com
>
> Good prices, good service.
>
> --
> Charles Sweeneyhttp://CharlesSweeney.com

I was using ipowerweb.com, for 4 years, the first 2 years I had good
luck, but it is getting steadily worse. In the past week, the website
has been down 4 times, at least an hour, today it is 6 hours. I can't
get my emails either. A month back, I could not send any emails, they
would bounce back, because the host I am on, was blacklisted. But
since I use Verizon dsl, I was able to use their outgoing mail
server. Everytime I call ipowerweb, they say they are sorry and
working on it. But there is a very big disconnect, between the people
that talk to you and the people who actually maintain the servers.
Now I am looking for a new hosting company. I would not recommend
this one. It has become one of the largest ones, and it looks like
the quality has gone down.

Carole

2007-03-26, 7:21 pm

nc7070 wrote:

> I was using ipowerweb.com, for 4 years, the first 2 years I had good
> luck, but it is getting steadily worse. In the past week, the website
> has been down 4 times, at least an hour, today it is 6 hours. I can't
> get my emails either. A month back, I could not send any emails, they
> would bounce back, because the host I am on, was blacklisted. But
> since I use Verizon dsl, I was able to use their outgoing mail
> server. Everytime I call ipowerweb, they say they are sorry and
> working on it. But there is a very big disconnect, between the people
> that talk to you and the people who actually maintain the servers.
> Now I am looking for a new hosting company. I would not recommend
> this one. It has become one of the largest ones, and it looks like
> the quality has gone down.
>

Seems a lot of hosting companies are going downhill. I used Hostway for
years and was always very happy. One of the sites I designed and now
maintain is for a well known composer/pianist. We have an email list
with close to 4,000 people on it. Because of this, they accused us of
sending out spam, which we were not. The email addresses on the list are
there because people signed up so that they would know the concert
schedule, new CDs being released, etc. I tried talked to them but it
was like talking to a wall. They took our email list offline so I could
not use it. I not only moved this site off their hosting, but also moved
4 others that I had on there. Their loss.

Carole

Zane

2007-03-26, 7:22 pm

Hostdepartment.com because they are extremely cheap & domains for
life. been using it for 3 months and so far its been good.

Gwin

2007-03-26, 11:18 pm

On Mar 26, 3:53 pm, "Zane" <shadowsquirrel...@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
> Hostdepartment.com because they are extremely cheap & domains for
> life. been using it for 3 months and so far its been good.

hostdepartment?
good choice
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/searc...earchid=2172099

hansBKK

2007-03-27, 7:17 am

Carole <SeattleCarole@hotmail.com> wrote in news:56qlntF28am33U1
@mid.individual.net:
> maintain is for a well known composer/pianist. We have an email list
> with close to 4,000 people on it. Because of this, they accused us of
> sending out spam, which we were not. The email addresses on the list are

Carole (or anyone)

Can you recommend a host that is OK with large-volume bulk emailing (NOT
spam)?

I work for a school, and the boss wants me to send out a regular newsletter
to all students and parents, like you around 4000 at a time. Also for
emergency notifications even more, as quickly as possible, can't stage them
200/hour or something.

I also want to get reports of un-delivereds, many hosts stop sending after
you reach their limit/hour and don't even let you know, you think they were
sent but they weren't!

leader@congress.hotmail.com

2007-03-27, 7:17 am

On 26 Mar 2007 17:07:13 -0700, "Gwin" <gwin@mindless.com> wrote:

>On Mar 26, 3:53 pm, "Zane" <shadowsquirrel...@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
>
>hostdepartment?
>good choice
>http://www.webhostingtalk.com/searc...earchid=2172099

"If it sounds too good to be true, it generally is"

and -

"You get only what you pay for"

and -

"There is nothing in this world that some man cannot make or sell a
little cheaper than his neighbour, and those who consider price alone
are this man's lawful prey".

I'm with
www.httpme.com
Three-and-a-half years in and happy as Larry.

(Larry's *really* happy; dunno what he's taking, but it's working...)

Carole

2007-03-27, 11:25 pm

hansBKK wrote:
> Carole (or anyone)
>
> Can you recommend a host that is OK with large-volume bulk emailing (NOT
> spam)?
>
> I work for a school, and the boss wants me to send out a regular newsletter
> to all students and parents, like you around 4000 at a time. Also for
> emergency notifications even more, as quickly as possible, can't stage them
> 200/hour or something.
>
> I also want to get reports of un-delivereds, many hosts stop sending after
> you reach their limit/hour and don't even let you know, you think they were
> sent but they weren't!

With the host we have now, I can send out my mailing list, but I have to
do it a few states at a time. It takes me about 10-15 minutes to do the
whole of the USA, plus foreign countries. I get autoresponders from
people who have them, but I don't get un-delivereds.

We use http://www.websitesource.com because of their low price and it
works for us.

Carole