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A really good hosting for a medium-sized website

Nov 17, 2005 10:12PM PST

Hello everybody!

I desperately need a new GOOD ISP.

This is what I need:
-NOT very expensive;
-Unix\Linux\FreeBSD;
-PHP/MySQL;
-Cron support;
-Protected directories;
-Web-mail;
-High bandwidth;
-Good customer support, of course.

Reason? My site was down too often and the number of visitors was too unpredictable. It jumped from 400 to 60 within one week. I ordered a profound examination of my web-site at http://www.dotcom-monitor.com (website and network monitoring company). In their report the following reasons were mentioned:
-''Slow Website Response''
-''Slow Web Page Response''
-''Varying Website Response from Different Geographical Locations''

I'm sure it is Extcom's (my current provider) fault, but communication with the Customer Support brings only promises and excuses. This persuades me that it's high time to move my site to a completely different place.

Sad

Your advice? I have two companies in view but ALL your recommendations are welcomed Happy

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FYI. Your post is a form of SPAM we see.
Nov 17, 2005 10:37PM PST

Intended or not, your post is a form of spam we see. I'll have the link edited out.

Cheers,

Bob

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Try this...
Jan 5, 2006 12:01AM PST
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serverfly review
Jun 30, 2008 5:22AM PDT

I strongly suggest you not to try serverfly.com

I used to like it, recommended a few friends to user their service, we left one by one, serverfly will stop your accounts if you have some hits.. if you have zero hits, you still fine. they stop out my accounts without notice, take our db down without notice.

I only have 2 words for them.
Nightmare + Awful

Contact me if for reference. Happy I used to have 30 domains with them, moved out one by one...

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Serverfly AWFUL, UNRELIABLE, VINDICTIVE
Jul 2, 2008 6:40AM PDT

My site was being hacked and exceeded allowed bandwidth. They move my sites without implementing dns forwarding, thereby intentionally allowing all of my sites to go down! They sent me an email about this after changing the dns so I didn't get the email or know what was going on. Then, they blamed me for the it! : "Many of our customers who share your server were furious about the server's crippled performance" Also, constant service interruption and downtime in the past. Maybe five times for an hour to a day over the past six months.

They are unreliable, will intentionally let your sites go down and blame you for their issues! Stay away!!!! "

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any good hosters left?
Aug 13, 2008 1:06AM PDT

Hi guys! i see you know what you are talking about )). can you help me to choose a reliable hoster? i am now with ultimahosts.net, but they suck. my site was down for 7 hours without any sign of action from their side. so i'm quite pissed off now.
here are the requirements that seem to be met for my ideal hoster:
* ASP.NET 2.0 hosting with MicroSoft SQL Server 2005.
* Ajax.Net.
* better if it's Virtual Dedicated Server or Virtual Private Server with administrative hoster.
* i have several sites, so they all must be within one space. one of them is based on CommerceStarterKit, so it needs full trust.
* one SQL base should be 200MB, so are the others.
* there should be support access to SQL server through Microsoft Management Studio.
* and the most important - SKYPE or othere messenger 7/24 support.

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yes
Dec 3, 2008 10:01PM PST

Hello.

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Dec 3, 2008 10:58PM PST