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[James Sumners]

I've been with them for a little over three years. I've not had any
problems with uptime, and their customer support is excellent.
Whenever they upgrade the account features (more storage, etc.) you
can call and have them apply the changes to your account at no extra
charge. The one time I've done that, a directory ended up missing in
the transfer between boxes. I called them and they had the directory
restored from their backups before I was off the phone.

I can't really address your bandwidth concerns. I've never pushed my
limits. I'm still using the plan before the one you see listed on
their front page. It's way more than I have need of (400GB/mo). I'd
call and have them upgrade me, and I'm sure everything would go
smoothly this time, but I just don't need it right now.

Before I signed up with BlueHost I was doing all of my own hosting. I
signed up with them so I wouldn't have to deal with all the
maintenance myself. I've been quite pleased.

If you care, the president of the company has his own site at
http://mattheaton.com/ and they have community forums, read by the
company administrators, at http://bluehostforum.com/ .

On 8/16/07, David Tomaschik <ozone at webgroup.org> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> > I use BlueHost. $6.95/mo for lots of bandwidth and features (e.g.
> > SSH/SFTP access). Check them out --
> > http://www.bluehost.com/track/roomfull/charrigan_ale .
> >
> > If you decide to go with BlueHost, please use that link. If you sign
> > up through that link I get a referral credit. If you don't want to,
> > that's your prerogative.
> >
> > On 8/16/07, Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I know this has been beaten to death, so one more kick couldn't hurt.
> >> Do any of you know of a good (namely cheap) web hosting companies.  It's
> >> for personal, not commercial use.  Mostly for sharing pictures.  Don't
> >> wanna use sites like yahoo, etc.  I thought about running my own server,
> >> but decided against it because of the overhead.  You know security,
> >> power, etc.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >
> >
> How long have you been with Bluehost?  Good uptime?  This looks like
> something I might want to switch to... like I said, I've been looking
> for IMAPS, Secure SMTP, and Secure POP3 as well as SSH and SFTP.  I'm
> wondering if they really allow you to use that massive amount of
> bandwidth, or if they penalize like some other hosts do.  (I've heard
> stories of throttling, etc.)
>
> David

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James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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