I looked at the Dreamhost.com offer and all I can say is WOW! They are offering an enormous amount of disk space and bandwidth. I am almost tempted to sign up with Dreamhost. I just have one problem: When hosting companies start offering more and more bandwidth, they tend to attract users who are consuming those huge amounts of bandwidths. And this being shared hosting, you are forced to share the same server with all those bandwidth hogs! The server performance must surely suffer.
I remember the time of dial-up service. My dial-up provider used to be IBM precisely because they offered only 100 hours per month of connection time while all others were offering unlimited time. With IBM, I never had any problem getting online, since they discouraged people who wanted to surf a lot. I never had any need to surf more than 4 hours per day so it suited me just fine. Some of my friends who used the "unlimited" services were always complaining that they had trouble connecting. My site is not a bandwidth hog. Heck, I am lucky to get a few hundred visitors per week. The same is true of most other sites. I love the personalized service offered by Zentrifugal and I am not willing to give it up for bandwidth that I am never going to use. Cornelius -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [php-list] Looking for new php hosting service For $100/year, a 100MB account with 2GB transfer isn't much. I have an account at jiffynet.net for $100/year with 1G storage and 100G transfer. It allows 50 add on domains, 50 databases, unlimited email/ftp accounts. I have another account on dreamhost.com for $120/year 2.4G 120G transfer. I got the account when they had their 7 years old sale, the first 777 people got 77 cents a month accounts for a year. Their current sale triples the disk space and bandwidth you get as long as you keep your account. They also have a community atmosphere, with forums, voting on new hosting features, a newsletter, and dreamhost site of the month. Brandon Cornelius Engelbrecht wrote: >I absolutely loooooooooooove Zentrifugal. > >I use Zentrifugal to host a database-driven site. Their hosting service >costs only $99 per year, but is relatively feature-rich and reliable. >Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.... you get the picture. > >I've recommended them to so many of my friends & family members (who are >nearly all hosting with them now), that Zentrifugal should just hire me as >their evangelist. > >Their customer support is "enlightened". They not only answer the question >that you asked, but anticipate other related questions that might crop up; >and answer them too! > >The URL is: www.zentrifugal.com > >Cornelius > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jim MacDiarmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:33 AM >To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; >[email protected] >Subject: [php-list] Looking for new php hosting service > > >Can anyone provide recommendations? I currently have a plan with >http://www.webhost4life.com however I'm becoming quickly unhappy with them. >Sometimes I wonder if they have the janitor doing tech support. I'm looking >perhaps going with http://www.10000mb.com/Hosting.html >but I was wondering if there was anything better? I'm looking for a decent >plan that I can host a PostNuke site with pnPHPbb2 and a classified ads >package I purchased recently. > >Thanks much, >Jim > >Northern Virginia Community Classifieds >http://www.nova-classifieds.com > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > >Community email addresses: > Post message: [email protected] > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Shortcut URL to this page: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------- >This message has been processed by Firetrust Benign. > > > > > > >Community email addresses: > Post message: [email protected] > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Shortcut URL to this page: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > -- --------------------------------- * Brandon Smith * programmer / web designer * http://sproutworks.com Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
