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jiji

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I need a new webhost.
« 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.
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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2008, 01:44:45 PM »
Laughing Squid is awesome.
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jiji

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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2008, 03:30:46 PM »
They look pretty good. I'll make them first on my list of candidates.
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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2008, 03:46:50 PM »
DO NOT use Dreamhost
I'm on Lunarpages and they're okay
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Eric P

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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2008, 03:49:05 PM »
i use dream host and have never had a problem

apparently i am in the minority

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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #5 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
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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #6 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.
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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2008, 03:54:48 PM »
Inmotion Hosting are pretty good.
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Eric P

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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2008, 03:58:04 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
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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2008, 04:22:19 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.
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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2008, 07:03:34 PM »
I use DemiHosting, which is what this place is on right now
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Re: I need a new webhost.
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2008, 09:56:08 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.
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