I just remembered.. hostican.com hosted someone's blog that was on the
Digg.com frontpage a few days ago with some post about "getting into
the webhosting business", but it was down after just a couple hundred
diggs, showing some error page regarding bandwidth. Pure irony.
Anyway, I wouldn't put too much weight in those words saying
"UNMETERED BANDWIDTH" at the top, or unlimited anything anywhere for
that matter. Often what (far too) many webhosts do, including a few
popular ones, is -oversell-. They offer -big- numbers for -little
money- and then when you do get the traffic that requires those
resources, turns out there was some fine print in the TOS regarding
CPU load usage and you find out it's "technically impossible" for your
site to fully use up those bijillion terabytes of promised bandwidth
because doing so would increase the server load to unacceptable
levels.
A good thing to do is do a Google search for "<insert hosting company
here> sucks". ;)
(Try this one: "dreamhost sucks".)
Cheers,
-- Alan
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/hosting.php
> is what I use and they have been a fantastic host.
>
> Extremely affordable, too. :D (Cheap but awesome, like a hobo with
> mad ninja skills.)
>
> -- Alan
>
>
> ps: If you're into serving large files that use a lot of bandwidth, I
> recommend serving them from Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
> http://aws.amazon.com/
> $0.15/GB stored and $0.18/GB of outgoing bandwidth.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Eric Thivierge <eric(at)xsidatabase.com> wrote:
> > Hey Bernard,
> >
> > I use hostican.com for XSIDB. It's probably the best server I've run on
> > so far. They keep their servers up to date in terms of the CPanel
> > functions and the webmail software too. I also hear that 1and1.com is a
> > popular one.
> >
> > Hope that helps a bit.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Eric Thivierge, XSI Database Admin
> > www.xsidatabase.com
> > eric(at)xsidatabase.com
> > Forum Username: EricTRocks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Bernard Lebel wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Sorry for OT. But I'm having problems every once in a while with my
> > > mediawiki (which contains technical material for XSI users that took
> > > me time to put together), and now am seriously considering changing my
> > > site host.
> > >
> > > Any good recommendation?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Bernard
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