[ale] [OT] Webhosting site

[David Tomaschik]

Interesting.  My only concern at this point is their pricing scheme...
seems like you have to do 1 year minimum to get the advertised price and
no setup fee, which works out to about $100 all at once.  Not something
I can likely do in the short term.  I guess I can't blame them: it's
advantageous to have longer prepaid customers, and I understand where
they're coming from.  It's just like the cell phone carriers.

David


James Sumners wrote:
> 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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