I know Shiloh, we both started our hosting business at the same time,
obviously he got much larger then we did at a much quicker pace. He's a
great guy and has always helped me when I needed it, but you guys are
correct, over the last year his service has deteriorated greatly. Such a
sad thing to see.
:-(
jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: I need a host. Intermedia testimonials
> On 8/7/00, Eric Dawson penned:
> >I need a host. and I gather from cftalk that Intermedia is the winner. I
am
> >interested in hearing testimonials or other alternatives.
>
> To be perfectly honest, when I signed on with them a year ago they
> were wonderful. Their tech support and their console are still among
> the best in the business, although to try and use it over the last 6
> months is enough to make you lose your hair. It occasionally takes me
> an hour just to set up an e-mail account. Click, go make a ham
> sandwich, come back, still spinning. Click again, go off on another
> project...
>
> Their servers are far too overloaded with CF sites. Where html pages
> will server right up sometimes, CF templates take anywhere from 30
> seconds to load up until just timing out. The performance, in my
> opinion, since around the first of the year has been abysmal at best.
> Although I never host new sites with them any more, I do work for a
> company it does. It's quite an embarassment when I have to walk a
> client through the administration of a site i build only to have them
> ask me "Why won't the pages load". I've gone so far as to finally
> tell the company that I won't build any more CF sites for them to be
> hosted there. I can't in good conscience lie to the customer and tell
> them that it's their connection, or I don't know what the problem is.
> I do know. Too many CF sites coupled with unlimited bandwidth and
> datasources.
>
> And although their 5.00 per month domains at unlimited bandwidth is a
> good deal, you don't get your own domain setip. All the 5.00 domains
> run off a main domain then are redirected to the site directory with
> an asp or CF script. Tough to do search engines. Cleints want to know
> why they have an additional directory tacked onto the end of their
> URL. After awhile, when you do a search for a site, your site will
> come up in the search engines... UNDER ONE OF THE OTHER DOMAINS ON
> THE SERVER! :)
>
> Just my experience. I still hear people saying they have good
> experiences with them. I went from having over 20 sites with them
> down to my current 2, and they'll be off of there soon.
> --
>
> Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations
>
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