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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: jiji on November 18, 2008, 01:39:24 PM

Title: I need a new webhost.
Post by: jiji on November 18, 2008, 01:39:24 PM

Any recommendations? I've gone off recommendations I've found on the web for the past two webhosts I've used, and both have ended up having poor security and bad practices.  First was Hostony with the way they'd consistently redirect domains registered with them to their placeholder "squatted" page, even though registration and payments were up to date. Then with IX Webhosting, there's the default 403 and 404 pages that make my site look squatted, and today I found out that a week or so ago, all of their users' FTP passwords were compromised and some scum had modified most every user's .htaccess to redirect to a malware site when users came in from search engines.

So yeah, it's time to move.  This is for my news/blog/personal site and for an artist fansite, and for an eventual photo portfolio site. My bandwith and space requirements are nothing huge.

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: GilloD on November 18, 2008, 01:44:45 PM

Laughing Squid is awesome.

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: jiji on November 18, 2008, 03:30:46 PM

They look pretty good. I'll make them first on my list of candidates.

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on November 18, 2008, 03:46:50 PM

DO NOT use Dreamhost
I'm on Lunarpages and they're okay

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: Eric P on November 18, 2008, 03:49:05 PM

i use dream host and have never had a problem

apparently i am in the minority

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on November 18, 2008, 03:51:09 PM

I had a terrible experience with Dreamhost, both in quality of hosting and in customer support when things went wrong

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: Ecrofirt on November 18, 2008, 03:53:55 PM

I've been using SurpassHosting for years now, and I love them to death.

My only slight complaint is that you have to keep an eye on them to make sure that what you're paying for still matches up to what they're offering in their front page. They don't seem to automatically update existing sites to their new plans.

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: littlemathletics on November 18, 2008, 03:54:48 PM

Inmotion Hosting are pretty good.

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: Eric P on November 18, 2008, 03:58:04 PM

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on November 18, 2008, 03:51:09 PM

I had a terrible experience with Dreamhost, both in quality of hosting and in customer support when things went wrong

yeah, again, i hear that a lot but have never had issue myself

but then i use them predominately as a file hosting service and don't demand anything more complex than ftp upload and http download

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on November 18, 2008, 04:22:19 PM

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on November 18, 2008, 03:51:09 PM

I had a terrible experience with Dreamhost, both in quality of hosting and in customer support when things went wrong

Yep same here. Not having phone support sucks ass.

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: demi on November 18, 2008, 07:03:34 PM

I use DemiHosting, which is what this place is on right now

Title: Re: I need a new webhost.
Post by: littlemathletics on November 18, 2008, 09:56:08 PM

Quote from: Ecrofirt on November 18, 2008, 03:53:55 PM

I've been using SurpassHosting for years now, and I love them to death.

My only slight complaint is that you have to keep an eye on them to make sure that what you're paying for still matches up to what they're offering in their front page. They don't seem to automatically update existing sites to their new plans.

Goddamn. These guys look awesome. Plus, they accept PayPal, which is fucking rare for a good host.