Loves me some [local] XMission!

Also, have you investigated the Amazon cloud? That grooves.

Stackable is a similar "cloud" service that XMission has partnered up
with that may suit your needs [again, to keep things closer to home.]

-Jim/Thin



On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Wade Preston Shearer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 17 Sep 2010, at 14:59, Aaron Luman wrote:
>
>> I know that this isn't specifically a php question, but I need to find a new
>> webhosting solution.  I have been using bluehost on and off for the past 10
>> years and have, in general, been VERY satisfied with them.  That is, until
>> recently.  I had my dad set up a new account for a website that we put
>> together and have consistently had problems with downtime and slow
>> responses.  Contacting customer service regarding the issue gets absolutely
>> no sympathy and in fact one agent told me that I should have read the terms
>> of service better before signing up as a response to me asking about the
>> 99.9% guaranteed uptime claim on their website.
>>
>> Anyway, as you can see, I am quite frustrated with the current situation and
>> would like to find another hosting solution.  There are multiple domain
>> names and three independent sites to be hosted, so it needs to be a company
>> that either allows for multiple domains or is cheap enough so that there
>> isn't a significant increase in the cost.  Other than that, the only other
>> concern is reliability.  The site needs to be up all the time as it is used
>> as a marketing tool.  We don't need a lot of storage space and won't likely
>> have huge bandwidth needs any time soon.
>>
>> Who do you guys use?  What suggestions do you have?
>
> I've set most of my clients up on Bluehost and have recommended them to many. 
> I generally have been satisfied as you have. I was pretty unimpressed last 
> night however when they took their entire data center offline for three hours 
> (no back up generators, nothing) during a _scheduled_ power repair with the 
> power company. Where was the notification? A scheduled outage should be 
> announced.
>
> My only other complaint is that you don't have an option of specifying a 
> sub-folder as webroot and sub domains have to be in subfolders of your 
> primary domain.
>
> Sorry I don't have any suggestions; I've never used anyone else.
>
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