Needed: 1x New WebHost
Thanks to the super reliable Dreamhost, you may have noticed I had no blog yesterday. Or email. Or Jabber. It took them over 12 hours after contact them that, yes, my site has mysteriously vanished, as have all the automagic backups.
In all fairness, you pay peanuts, you get monkeys – that sort of thing. Given DreamHost’s last year has been abysmal, I can no longer ‘afford’ to defend them.
I’ve finally got the site back, so I’m backing it up like crazy and will be moving the blog to another host as soon as I can. I’m looking into VPS’, spending about AUD$50/m. Any suggestions?
In the meantime while I’m hunting around for a new host (I’ll have one by the 11th), I’ll probably not be blogging so it is less effort to continuously backup.
Shared hosting is getting a bad reputation because of oversellers like DreamHost.
One host that really tries to restore faith in shared hosting is WebFaction ( http://www.webfaction.com ). These guys try hard to provide a quality service with undersold servers which are fast and stable.
I use AussieHQ, they’re pretty good. ;)
http://aussiehq.com.au/business/hostingplans
@pete definitely agree that they’ve tarnished my view of shared webhosts. The real pity is some of the stuff they have setup is damn clever. Their webpanel for example, kicks the arse off cPanel.
@Rowan, thanks, but I should have mentioned I’m more after a ASP.NET capable host, because of where (I think) my career will be headed.
@pete definitely agree that they’ve tarnished my view of shared webhosts. The real pity is some of the stuff they have setup is damn clever. Their webpanel for example, kicks the arse off cPanel.
@Rowan, thanks, but I should have mentioned I’m more after a ASP.NET capable host, because of where (I think) my career will be headed.
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@pete definitely agree that they’ve tarnished my view of shared webhosts. The real pity is some of the stuff they have setup is damn clever. Their webpanel for example, kicks the arse off cPanel.
@Rowan, thanks, but I should have mentioned I’m more after a ASP.NET capable host, because of where (I think) my career will be headed.
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Hey Paul,
If you haven’t found a new host already, check out Crucial Paradigm (http://www.crucialp.com/client/aff.php?aff=002)
I’ve had my website with them for years, they’re the cheapest provider I’ve seen, with the best value for space. They’re also extremely reliable and have the best support I’ve seen.
They have both US and Aussie-based hosting. I use their unix-based hosting, but they offer Windows/ASP.net hosting also.
–
Chris