I think a lot of these places may be great if you are paying for a dedicated
box, collocation, etc. But for us little guys who can only afford a
$50/month shared account, I think most of these hosts don't value our
business very much. I've had experience with three hosts so far and have
been dissatisfied with all of them at one time or another. Media3 was
impossible to reach on the phone and when I could reach them their demeanor
was pretty unprofessional. The last straw was when they stopped logging our
site via webtrends and despite notifying them several times of the problem,
they never did fix it. Infoquest was a lot better, but I had a problem with
slowness communicating with my data source, and again the tech support was
pretty unprofessional. I'm now with Interland, and though I like their
control panel because I can do most of what I need myself instead of relying
on their support people, I have also had issues with them. A few months ago
when trying to get a CFX tag installed, it took a few weeks before I could
finally got it resolved. I gave them an executable install file and instead
of installing it on their server, they just renamed it to .dll and used that
as the file! But it took forever to actually find out they had done that
because they only had (maybe still do) one person who was trusted with
installing CFX tags and configuring the CF Server! This for a company which
I'm sure has at least hundreds if not thousands of CF clients! They would
not let me speak to him, so I had to rely on half a dozen normal support
people half of whom failed to enter a trouble ticket, or call back despite
promises to the contrary. I ended up having to retrieve the dll's myself
and send them these because they said they could not run the executable on a
shared server. I've also been noticing a lot of slowness, and when
addressing this their only answer is "oh well, you are sharing a box with
250 other clients, so the only way to solve this is by moving to a
higher-level account." Gee, thanks a lot. Unfortunately, I think this may
be the only way. The other option I've been playing with is one where
several of us smaller folk could get together, pool our resources, and get a
dedicated/collocated box somewhere and only have to deal with maybe at most
a dozen other people sharing the box for about the same price that we would
be paying otherwise. I don't know, what do you think?
Levi
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Levi Wallach - [EMAIL PROTECTED] P:(703) 237-0443 F: 703-237-3490 |
| Senior Webmaster, Tran Interactive Design Group - http://www.tidg.com |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Creator, DVDMON.com - http://www.dvdmon.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| DVD News, Views & Reviews, Music & Book Reviews, PDA Channel Content, |
| Contests, DVD Buying Guide and more! |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian L. Wolfsohn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 10:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: I need a host. Intermedia testimonials
>
>
> At 10:50 AM 8/8/00 , you wrote:
>
> we've use www.media3.net for over 3 years now. i can recommend them
> highly. we started out putting on individual domains, and now
> have 4 boxes
> co-located on their farm.
>
>
>
> >Here's www.america.net . They've had CF service since 1998, I
> believe, but
> >my wife and I are just now getting started with them on it for
> our personal
> >business, so I can't give you an eyewitness account of how easy it is to
> >work with them on this.
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Gavin Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 10:53 AM
> >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> >Subject: RE: I need a host. Intermedia testimonials
> >
> >
> >2 Months ago i would have said Interland... but they started to move crap
> >around and our database hasn't been put back on our server
> YET... its been
> >over a month now with no db, I'm pretty pissed at it, and maybe
> its just one
> >of those things. Their price is ok, the site is ok, they have sql.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Eric Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 9:04 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: I need a host. Intermedia testimonials
> >
> >
> >I need a host. and I gather from cftalk that Intermedia is the
> winner. I am
> >interested in hearing testimonials or other alternatives.
> >
> >1 client, 10 domains and growing.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Eric Dawson
> >________________________________________________________________________
> >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
> >
> >-----------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------
> >--
> >Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/
> >To Unsubscribe visit
> >http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/c
f_talk or
>send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in
>the body.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
>--
>Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/
>To Unsubscribe visit
>http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or
>send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in
>the body.
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
>Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/
>To Unsubscribe visit
>http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or
>send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in
>the body.
Brian L. Wolfsohn http://www.cus.com
CUS Business Systems Ft.Lauderdale,FL
Software for Auctioneers (954) 565-5600 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/
To Unsubscribe visit
http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or
send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in
the body.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/
To Unsubscribe visit
http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a
message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
