[clue] Web host recommendations?

[Quentin Hartman]

I've used a lot of different hosts over the years. The _only_ one I've
found that I would recommend is Dreamhost. I _really_ like them. If I
wasn't getting a friends & family rate on some colocation, I would use them
myself. I do use them as my registrar and for DNS. I super hate GoDaddy.
Partially it's their politics / image, but every time I've had an issue
with them, the support people are like, "What do you want? We're cheap!".
That said, they usually work fine, but if something goes wrong, may god
have mercy on your soul.

For the record I've used (both personally and professionally):
-Dreamhost (yay! Recommended)
-GoDaddy
-1n1
-bluehost
-Media Temple
-superhost(? this may be wrong it was years ago)
-networksolutions
-qwest

QH


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Philipp Giddings <phil9x at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is true the sales department is incessant and every time you login the
> adds are relentless
> Fortunately with shell access there is not much reason to login
>
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:20 PM, M Paul Webb <hsechmvt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I have no idea where the last e-mail I sent went to. I just cannot
>> understand how to use this mailing list, and I'm never sure where the
>> e-mail is going. So let me try this again to be sure.
>>
>> I've always heard that GoDaddy was good for simple sites and domains,
>> but not for dynamic sites. They do make a bad impression due to extremely
>> hard sell marketing. However, I've never had a problem that could not be
>> solved with them. I had been having problems with a forum at 1 and 1, and
>> the support was crap, always with an explanation on how everything was
>> really my problem, which was why there was no solution. And talking about
>> marketing approaches, I do not even want to go over the stunt they tried to
>> pull on me. So I researched some other hosts for php and MySQL, and all had
>> negatives showing. So the other day I decided I would just put it with
>> GoDaddy. And it worked. So, dispite what they say about GoDaddy, they also
>> have good points. I just moved the forum into a static site that has always
>> just worked, and now I'm saving money, as there was no increased cost. They
>> are cheap. But watch out for their sales techniques... like any contact
>> with support results in including a sales approach, which has to be
>> recognized for what it is, in order for it to really mean nothing.
>>
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