Comments on: Crappy hosting company http://www.jacoballred.com/rants/crappy-hosting-company/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:11:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: tiffany http://www.jacoballred.com/rants/crappy-hosting-company/comment-page-1/#comment-74 tiffany Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:50:52 +0000 http://www.zulugrid.com/2006/06/16/crappy-hosting-company/#comment-74 i've used dreamhost. they're very good. but i use westhost now. they have a virtual private server setup, and they stay pretty current with regards to releases and upgrades (Although they *are* still on MySQL 4). with the vps setup, you can pretty much upgrade whenever you feel like it, as soon as it's available on your account. that's perfect, if, for some reason you have code that was built on MySQL 3.2.3 and are scared to upgrade. i’ve used dreamhost. they’re very good. but i use westhost now. they have a virtual private server setup, and they stay pretty current with regards to releases and upgrades (Although they *are* still on MySQL 4).

with the vps setup, you can pretty much upgrade whenever you feel like it, as soon as it’s available on your account. that’s perfect, if, for some reason you have code that was built on MySQL 3.2.3 and are scared to upgrade.

]]> By: miah http://www.jacoballred.com/rants/crappy-hosting-company/comment-page-1/#comment-73 miah Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:57:29 +0000 http://www.zulugrid.com/2006/06/16/crappy-hosting-company/#comment-73 so it is a little late in internet time( what like 4 days), but I can vouch for dreamhost, been using them for 2 years or now. They have a funky user control panel, but if you do everything via ssh then it doesn't really matter. Incidentally I am using their shared hosting plan, $8 a month for some crazy space and 1.2 TB bandwidth(both the space and bandwidth increase over time). Another company I like, is <a title="hostdime hosting" rel="nofollow">hostdime</a>, I host all of my business accounts there because they use cpanel for their user panel which is pleasant for my more non-technical users. Only problem with them is that their datacenter is in florida, which is all well and good, as long is there isn't a massive hurricane. two years ago, when one of the hurricanes hit, all of my sites went down for a day, which all things considered isn't too shabby since it pretty much wiped out the area they are in. So if it is for just yourself, and you aren't going to be hosting other people(or all the people are as technically savvy as you) then I would use dreamhost. You can resell the space (i think i have 75 accounts) but you will have to do all the installations and server side stuff (emails, subdomains, etc). If you are planning on selling off the space you aren't using, hostdime makes it easy with the webhosting manager (whm), so you create an account and send the client a username and password and let them have at it. Oh, and both support teams are good, sometime excellent. :-) And finally I have an account with 1and1.com (I got one of the free 3year developer accounts when they were just moving into the US market) but I don't use them for much other than domain registration($6/year). There support .. . has been lackluster, although that could be due to the fact that nearly all of my questions to them have been concerning obscure dns issues which most of the lowbie support people have no idea about, or possibly because my account was free, eh who knows. i don't know anything about wordpress, but do you think you could add <ul> and <li> to the allowable xhtml codes? and I totally dig the fake-person generator, haha, it is awesome, nice coding! so it is a little late in internet time( what like 4 days), but I can vouch for dreamhost, been using them for 2 years or now. They have a funky user control panel, but if you do everything via ssh then it doesn’t really matter. Incidentally I am using their shared hosting plan, $8 a month for some crazy space and 1.2 TB bandwidth(both the space and bandwidth increase over time).

Another company I like, is hostdime, I host all of my business accounts there because they use cpanel for their user panel which is pleasant for my more non-technical users. Only problem with them is that their datacenter is in florida, which is all well and good, as long is there isn’t a massive hurricane. two years ago, when one of the hurricanes hit, all of my sites went down for a day, which all things considered isn’t too shabby since it pretty much wiped out the area they are in.

So if it is for just yourself, and you aren’t going to be hosting other people(or all the people are as technically savvy as you) then I would use dreamhost. You can resell the space (i think i have 75 accounts) but you will have to do all the installations and server side stuff (emails, subdomains, etc). If you are planning on selling off the space you aren’t using, hostdime makes it easy with the webhosting manager (whm), so you create an account and send the client a username and password and let them have at it.

Oh, and both support teams are good, sometime excellent. :-)

And finally I have an account with 1and1.com (I got one of the free 3year developer accounts when they were just moving into the US market) but I don’t use them for much other than domain registration($6/year). There support .. . has been lackluster, although that could be due to the fact that nearly all of my questions to them have been concerning obscure dns issues which most of the lowbie support people have no idea about, or possibly because my account was free, eh who knows.

i don’t know anything about wordpress, but do you think you could add <ul> and <li> to the allowable xhtml codes?

and I totally dig the fake-person generator, haha, it is awesome, nice coding!

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