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Hosting

I might be look­ing for a new host­ing com­pany. Cur­rently I’m with Pair Net­works and to be hon­est I have not much to com­plain (signed up with their “advanced” web host­ing plan). Their ser­vice is fine and their price is about right. The only thing that really annoys me is that I only have 1 SQL data­base — which is just not enough.

I have been look­ing around and so far Dreamhost seems inter­est­ing. Has any­one used their ser­vices? I’m will­ing to spend about $20 a month or so. I’m look­ing for all the usual things a web host has to offer and unlim­ited SQL data­bases is a big plus. So what are you suggesting?

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  1. Posted by Dustin on Friday, July 2nd, 2004.

    http://www.surpasshosting.com

    $19.99 per month; 15GB disk space, 150GB trans­fer, unlim­ited DBs

    I don’t use it myself, so I can’t tell you how the sup­port is and stuff. Half price of orange place, uh, plus more stuff.

  2. Posted by Tae on Saturday, July 3rd, 2004.

    i’ve been look­ing for a new host as well and i have to say that asmal­lo­r­ange looks really promis­ing. the prices are great and i espe­cially liked their Fan­tas­tico auto­matic script installer and reseller option. but sup­port and reli­a­bil­ity is extremely impor­tant — does any­one else have any expe­ri­ence with them?

  3. Posted by heath weaver on Monday, July 5th, 2004.

    Peo­ple, what are you doing?

    There is nowhere else to go except Right Design Web Hosting

    http://rightdesign.com/hosting/

    Brad Choate, the king of great MT plug-in’s offers web-hosting. I have recently switched from Registerfly’s host­ing to Brad’s and I couldn’t be hap­pier. Not only did he install MT for me (includ­ing some of this fan­tas­tic plug-in’s), but he has solved many of my prob­lems, when I wanted to cus­tomize my error pages he helped me through it and even sent me links to learn more about the sub­ject. He also helped me fig­ure out some tricks on using his plug-in’s.

    All of this and Brad prices very com­pet­i­tively (I should know I did a com­par­i­son of most of the top Host­ing com­pa­nies, if you want a copy send me an email), but I think access to Brad’s MT knowl­edge makes his the best deal on the market.

    Heath — A happy cus­tomer of Right Design Web Hosting

  4. Posted by Linda on Tuesday, July 6th, 2004.

    You gonna love this web­host­ing ser­vice u get unlim­ited every­thing at only 9.95 a month. Ive been search­ing for some­thing like that when I found this site i signed up right away.

    Free Unlim­ited Host­ing includes:

    • Unlim­ited Webspace

    • Unlim­ited Bandwidth

    • Unlim­ited Email Accounts

    • Unlim­ited Autoresponders

    • Unlim­ited MySQL Databases

    • Unlim­ited Subdomains

    • Cpanel 9x Online Con­trol Panel

    • Fan­tas­tico ($90.00 Value!)

    • Super Fast Servers!

    http://www.free-unlimited.com/free/show.php?adid=31&affid=26&stp=0&adtr=13

  5. Posted by Ben on Tuesday, July 6th, 2004.

    Rack my vote up for TextDrive too, DH. Like some have said, they’re still in ramp-up mode, but the level of per­sonal ser­vice is second-to-none. Jason and Dean are on a winner.

  6. Posted by Gabe on Tuesday, July 6th, 2004.

    Regard­ing John’s post about Dreamhost’s mas­sive DDOS attack that took them down for 36 hours. Dreamhost has made major changes to address even the most dif­fi­cult prob­lems by hav­ing closer con­tact with their upstream provider, and putting up an off-network sta­tus site to keep cus­tomer informed. Since then they’ve had another DDOS that didn’t even cause a blip in ser­vice (appar­ently some sites were slow for an hour or so til they squashed the problem).

    Dreamhost’s web panel is cus­tom built and is by far the most feature-complete I have ever seen. I’m a pretty hard­core PHP/MySQL devel­oper and I’ve never had need to con­tact tech sup­port for any assis­tance con­fig­ur­ing any­thing. Appar­ently for their shared host­ing they also have account load bal­anc­ing soft­ware that allows them to move users between machines auto­mat­i­cally to keep loads rea­son­able (I haven’t been moved since I signed up two years ago).

    My only gripe is that the web­mail is pretty slow, but since I use IMAP I can just use a real mail client most of the time.

  7. Posted by Chet on Tuesday, July 6th, 2004.

    Definitly go DreamHost. They recently added 60% more disk space and band­width. Also, with their new sale, you can get HUGE fea­tures for only $20/month. I have had no prob­lems except for one period of down­time because of secu­rity, but this was fixed by the com­pany so it won’t hap­pen again. Their fea­tures are phe­no­manol and their ser­vice excel­lent. They are very personal.

  8. Posted by randy on Wednesday, July 7th, 2004.

    ICD­Soft [http://www.icdsoft.com] offers 333 MB and 5GB monthly trans­fer for only $5/month! They don’t have unlim­ited data­bases. You only get one data­base to start, but you can add addi­tional data­bases for a $5 one-time fee. I have been with ICD­Soft for over a year now, and I love them! Their cus­tomer ser­vice is excel­lent — they always respond within ten minutes.

    They also have a plan that triples the space, band­width, and data­bases for only $10/month.

  9. Posted by Kees on Thursday, July 8th, 2004.

    Textdrive is excel­lent and very nicely dif­fer­ent! Sup­port team is great too.

  10. Posted by Dustin on Thursday, July 8th, 2004.

    Actu­ally, I use ICD­Soft too, Randy. I really like it. Ser­vice is the best in the busi­ness, mostly because they respond with in like 5 min­utes of every ticket you send in, even if it’s 3 in the morn­ing. It’s pretty amaz­ing, you must see it to believe it.

    My site (click my name) is located on a server in Hong Kong at the i-Advantage Data Cen­ter, the largest inter­net ser­vice build­ing in the world.

    I had for­got­ten that you could pur­chase addi­tional DBs. How­ever, surpasshosting.com has the best bang for your buck that I’ve ever seen. Some­one should check that one out.

  11. Posted by Nathan on Friday, July 9th, 2004.

    Check out TMax­Host at http://tmaxhost.com. I know their site is a lit­tle goofy — they’ve got gram­mat­i­cal errors here and there; I’m pretty sure they’re based inter­na­tion­ally but I’ve been very, very happy with them. I’ve had a reseller account with them for a year now and report the following:

    Good: no down-time yet, very fast response time on help tick­ets (always same-day, usu­ally a few hours), and $14/month gets me 4GB storage/40GB trans­fer, unlim­ited db’s, domains and FTP accounts.

    Bad: no 1–800 num­ber, no clear infor­ma­tion on their servers like where, what, etc.

    Any­body else have any expe­ri­ence with this com­pany? I real­ize I’m gam­bling on some level, since I can’t find any 3rd party reviews, but they’ve been totally reli­able so far and no host­ing com­pany on the planet comes close to their plans.

  12. Posted by Jeff Clark on Friday, July 9th, 2004.

    I would sug­gest look­ing at Ser­verSeed Host­ing. Incred­i­bly quick responses to help tick­ets, cPanel back­end, shell access, it’s just great all around.

  13. Posted by james on Sunday, July 11th, 2004.

    I’ve been with Dreamhost for nearly five years now. I’ve onlt scanned all the praise already heaped on Dreamhost, and I prob­a­bly agree, with this to add:

    WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG, THEY TELL YOU WHAT’ S HAPPENING.

    For exam­ple, they recently had some down­time due to a DDOS attack. In two instances, once tar­get­ing just a site they host, and another time their name­servers directly. Another time I recall, they upgraded their ver­sion of MySQL, and things went hay­wire till they reverted to the pre­vi­ous ver­sion. These are com­mon­place mishaps, but here’s the thing: as soon as the prob­lems devel­oped, they emailed us, not just wait­ing till it’s over to run dam­age con­trol. They’re pro-active, and you know they were up through the night nurs­ing the servers back to func­tion­al­ity, post­ing updates all the while.

  14. Posted by Daniel, medical transcriptionist on Tuesday, July 13th, 2004.

    I just switched to Sur­passHost­ing. It starts at only $4.94 a month!

    From the reviews I have read, they have great reli­a­bilty and fast servers!

  15. Posted by Jenni on Friday, July 16th, 2004.

    I know this topic is kind of old, but i’d like to add http://www.netrillium.com to the list.

    $14.50 a month (or $170 a year) will get you 600MB of space, 17GB monthly band­width, Unlim­ited FTP Accounts, Unlim­ited Sub­do­mains, Unlim­ited MySQL Data­bases, Cpanel 8.5.3, Unlim­ited POP3 Accounts, Unlim­ited Autore­spon­ders, Unlim­ited Mail­ing Lists, Unlim­ited Email For­wards, Web­Mail Access… I could go on but you can just read it all here: http://netrillium.com/plans.php

  16. Posted by David on Tuesday, July 20th, 2004.

    I’ve hosted a num­ber of sites with Dreamhost over the past two years. While I’m a big fan of their prices and ser­vices, I haven’t been ter­ri­bly impressed with their sup­port. It’s all e-mail and they promise a response within 24 hours… how­ever, some­times that response is just to say “we’re work­ing on it”. Nice peo­ple, but that kind of turn around time is mad­den­ing when you have a problem!

  17. Posted by Mandy on Wednesday, July 21st, 2004.

    Sim­ple and to the point:

    1 MySQL, and 10 data sources, 30 GB band­width, and 600MB disk space, Con­trol Panel Access, 50 POP3 email accts, exter­nal email for­ward­ing, auto respond­ing email, for as low as $19.95/mo

    or

    2 MySQL, and 15 data sources, 60 GB band­width, and 1000MB disk space,Control Panel Access, unlim­ited POP3 email accts, exter­nal email for­ward­ing, auto respond­ing email for as low as $32.76/mo

    http://IpockDesigns.com or

    http://ipockartandmusic.com/Enter.htm

    Just the facts! Loads of help­ful good­ies on site!

  18. Posted by Ryan Petrello on Saturday, July 24th, 2004.

    Some­how a web host­ing and design site that imple­ments the “blink” tag doesn’t seem so appetizing.

  19. Posted by Brady J. on Thursday, July 29th, 2004.

    http://www.ithium.net has been excel­lent — many of us mod­er­a­tors on http://www.codingforums.com use them, I have over 20 sites with them — and it’s cheap. his ithium site is on the redesign, if you would like his email, drop me a line — I’d post it, but who knows how much spam he’ll get.

  20. Posted by michael on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004.

    if your in asia you can try web host­ing provider in asia

    so far its been good host­ing with them.

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