On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jason Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, CrystalTech has been nothing but great for me. Solid beta of CF9 before > they released it commercially, too, so they are definitely on the ColdFusion > train. Not sure why you got a bad tech there, but that has certainly never > been their attitude to me, and I've hosted with them for years.
Definitely a YMMV issue since I've had bad experiences with CrystalTech with more than one client site over the years. Mostly stability problems with their servers (and occasionally very slow and/or uninformed responses from support). GoDaddy are very much a case of you get what you pay for and their support is *awful*. I host a number of HTML sites with them and their cheap Linux hosting is pretty good but their CFMX7(!) offering is heavily restricted (sandbox security) and they know zero about ColdFusion. I had everything with HostMySite but their service has gone dramatically downhill lately (under Hosting.com) so I moved all but one site to Edge Web Hosting who I love to bits. Vlad Friedman and his team are very knowledgeable and responsive. I've also heard good things about Vivio (who also offer a "true root VPS" with Railo for $180/year). Most of the hosting companies will tell you - sometimes off-the-record, over a beer - that shared hosting is just plain ol' going away. They've been saying it for years. The margins are too small and the stability problems are pretty much insurmountable due to software out of their control (a customer's poorly written app) - regardless of technology. VPS is the new shared hosting and there's already a move to cloud-like configurations with some hosting companies. One of the cheapest shared hosting offerings around at the moment is Alurium's "mini plan" at just over $3/month: https://alurium.com/clients/cart.php?gid=1 It's Railo-based - which means you get full Web Administrator control, even on shared hosting, and they offer a free trial so you can see how your code runs. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333879 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
