OT: Should I be Looking for a New Web Host?

[Alex Beamish]

Stephen,

My web provider is pair.com -- I've been with them for about five years or
so.

I host a couple of domains under one account and haven't had any significant
downtime, ever.

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.

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.

pair.com also hosts Perlmonks (http://www.perlmonks.org) at no cost, which
is great value to the community.

My two cents.

-- 
Alex Beamish
Toronto, Ontario

On 12/8/06, Stephen <stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> OK, I develop my web sites on a Linux box....
>
> But I am seeking thoughts from people who are likely on this list.
>
> I have a number of low volume web sites, non-commercial. Reliability is
> not mission critical.
>
> I had been with a US host for three years and had no known downtime. I
> switched last spring to a local company, and have had three significant
> periods of being down. Most recently noon yesterday and it continues as
> I write this 20 hours later.
>
> There is no telephone support. I sent emergency emails and got responses
> saying "it should be fixed, try it"
>
> When I pinged my domain, I received an error saying host could not be
> found. I figure the hosts DNS server  was the problem.But the support
> staff do not seem to have the skill set to resolve issues such as this.
>
> They use packages like VHCS or cPanel and can only operate within their
> GUI's.
>
> I am being switched to cPanel since it gets better support (and VHCS has
> poor support). These are from the hosting company. How to interpret is
> an open question.
>
> I am pissed. I was trying to organize an event for Sunday, but the
> interruption in email seems to have torpedoed  that.
>
> On the one hand I want to switch hosts, out of principle. On the other,
> I don't think that I will get any better service elsewhere unless I pay
> significantly more.
>
> Wish I paid some attention to the web hosting thread.
>
> All thoughts appreciated.
>
> Stephen
>
>
>
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