Stephen,<br><br>My web provider is <a href="http://pair.com">pair.com</a> -- I've been with them for about five years or so.<br><br>I host a couple of domains under one account and haven't had any significant downtime, ever.
<br><br>They use FreeBSD which is a little different than the Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 4 and Mandrake 10.1 versions that I use at home and at work, but once I'm in a bash shell, no problems.<br><br>You can get an ftp-only account for under $10/month, and their web-based control panel works fine for setting up domains, E-Mail aliases, gathering statistics, all that stuff.
<br><br><a href="http://pair.com">pair.com</a> also hosts Perlmonks (<a href="http://www.perlmonks.org">http://www.perlmonks.org</a>) at no cost, which is great value to the community.<br><br>My two cents.<br><br>-- <br>Alex Beamish
<br>Toronto, Ontario<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen</b> <<a href="mailto:stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org">stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
OK, I develop my web sites on a Linux box....<br><br>But I am seeking thoughts from people who are likely on this list.<br><br>I have a number of low volume web sites, non-commercial. Reliability is<br>not mission critical.
<br><br>I had been with a US host for three years and had no known downtime. I<br>switched last spring to a local company, and have had three significant<br>periods of being down. Most recently noon yesterday and it continues as
<br>I write this 20 hours later.<br><br>There is no telephone support. I sent emergency emails and got responses<br>saying "it should be fixed, try it"<br><br>When I pinged my domain, I received an error saying host could not be
<br>found. I figure the hosts DNS server was the problem.But the support<br>staff do not seem to have the skill set to resolve issues such as this.<br><br>They use packages like VHCS or cPanel and can only operate within their
<br>GUI's.<br><br>I am being switched to cPanel since it gets better support (and VHCS has<br>poor support). These are from the hosting company. How to interpret is<br>an open question.<br><br>I am pissed. I was trying to organize an event for Sunday, but the
<br>interruption in email seems to have torpedoed that.<br><br>On the one hand I want to switch hosts, out of principle. On the other,<br>I don't think that I will get any better service elsewhere unless I pay<br>significantly more.
<br><br>Wish I paid some attention to the web hosting thread.<br><br>All thoughts appreciated.<br><br>Stephen<br><br><br><br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <a href="http://gtalug.org/">http://gtalug.org/
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