Yes, very few hosts survive getting dugg. Mine's probably no different.
My point was that I dislike the terminology "UNMETERED BANDWIDTH",
which to me translates to "Unlimited Bandwidth" and that is almost
always a lie. I'm not dissing anything else about them ;) and I
haven't been a customer of theirs so for all I know they could be an
awesome host.
Cheers,
-- Alan
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Eric Thivierge <eric(at)xsidatabase.com> wrote:
> Hey Alan,
>
> Nearly all hosts these days will cave under a severe Digg unless you've
> got a dedicated server (who has that kind of money?). Just because
> someone's page got dugg a few hundred times doesn't mean that it wasn't
> getting slammed with 1,000s of visitors. One thing about digg is that
> you can surf the stories and not have to digg them. Either way, they've
> been a great host for me so far without any problems.
>
> Later,
>
>
> Eric Thivierge, XSI Database Admin
> www.xsidatabase.com
> eric(at)xsidatabase.com
> Forum Username: EricTRocks
>
>
>
>
> Alan Fregtman wrote:
> > And a nice, free webmail solution any Gmail lover will appreciate is
> > Google's "Google Apps for Your Domain":
> > https://www.google.com/a/
> >
> > You just need to edit your DNS records to point to Google's servers.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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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