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WeatherCat => WeatherCat General Discussion => Topic started by: TechnoMonkey on January 05, 2016, 01:49:44 AM

Title: Web Hosting
Post by: TechnoMonkey on January 05, 2016, 01:49:44 AM: Any recommendations for a decent web hosting package? Apparently WeatherCat eats up a bit of bandwidth for any 'realtime' weather posting. I could upgrade my present one, but I have to cancel the account and start a new one and if I am going to cancel the account and start a new one, I might as well shop first.

(not godaddy. first issue was the website only went to september on the credit card dropdown and the second issue was a lack of response from them on issue number one. two for two, not interested.)
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 05, 2016, 02:24:37 AM: I agree to skip Godaddy. I've had Hostgator (http://www.hostgator.com/) for the last 3+ years. Had Dogbark before that and they were great, but not cheap. However, like many small, personal services, they were bought out. As a matter of fact, 'consolidation' has been rampant for several years, making service of secondary importance to the merged companies. I do not get domain names from the hosting company, if you try to leave for another host, you may find you've never really 'owned' the domain. [rolleyes2]
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: TechnoMonkey on January 05, 2016, 03:51:40 AM: I own my domain name. I only used it to register but never transferred. I use no-ip.com to put my domain anywhere I like.
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 06, 2016, 03:10:46 AM: directNIC (2006-2012) and NameCheap (2012-). [tup]
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: TechnoMonkey on January 06, 2016, 03:42:01 AM: NameCheap looks good. Thanks
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: staze on January 18, 2016, 12:30:36 AM: I signed up for www.qth.com a bit ago, and love them so far. Not as cheap as name-cheap, but the owner Scott, is awesome for support. =)
Title: More ideas?
Post by: dfw_pilot on February 04, 2016, 05:40:53 AM: May I bump this thread for any more ideas on a good shared host?

As I type this, my host, blueHost, has been down for hours (just my server) and there obviously is no backup server. I don't mind paying $10-$15/mo if it means more reliability, but I can't play with the big boys on a VPS, dedicated, or AWS Instance.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: awilltx on February 04, 2016, 11:51:07 AM: DFW_pilot

I've been using Hosting Matters for a year-and-a-half with no problems. They have three shared packages, I use the middle one which is $8/mo.

http://www.hostingmatters.com

Alan

p.s. I tried blueHost a couple of years ago and my ISP blacklisted them shortly after I signed up.
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: wurzelmac on February 04, 2016, 05:15:13 PM: https://www.hosteurope.de/en/

More than satisfied with their performance.

Cheers,
Reinhard
Title: Update
Post by: dfw_pilot on February 04, 2016, 07:29:06 PM: Thanks guys.

As an update, when the server came back up, my access was black-listed because of WeatherCat! After a few hours on the phone/hold, it was discovered that I was automatically blacklisted because of my 5 minute website updates, and my 30 second "live gauges" updates from the realtimegaugesWC.txt file. They saw it as a script that was malware or attempting to log in to the shared server. This WeatherCat hobby is addictive and causing me stress! Now I $pend more money running my computer 24/7 and may now have to change web hosts. What's next?

Anyway, thanks for the links. awilltx, I see you have 30 second updates with the steel gauges, too. May I assume that HostingMatters hasn't objected to your rapid updates? If so, I may give them a try when my contract is up. Thanks again,

dfw
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: awilltx on February 04, 2016, 08:59:39 PM: Quote
awilltx, I see you have 30 second updates with the steel gauges, too. May I assume that HostingMatters hasn't objected to your rapid updates?

Never had a problem or complaint from them about 30 second updates. They also don't count ftp uploads against your monthly bandwidth usage. Kind of nice.

Alan
Title: Fantastic
Post by: dfw_pilot on February 04, 2016, 09:01:17 PM: Wow, that is very nice. I'm going to bookmark them and look them up in a few months when my hosting account is up for renewal. Thanks again!

dfw
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: TechnoMonkey on February 06, 2016, 03:14:13 PM: I decided to go with Hosting Matters and had trouble FTPing from CyberDuck. It was about 2100hrs and I sent an email about the issue and their response was quick and adequate. Happy camper! Up and running.
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: awilltx on February 06, 2016, 04:22:33 PM: Quote
had trouble FTPing from CyberDuck

Wow, I didn't know CyberDuck was still going! I had some problems with it and switched over to Transmit for ftp a long while ago.

Glad you're liking Hosting Matters so far. I've only dealt with support a couple of times, but they seem to be on top of things.

Alan
Title: Transmit
Post by: dfw_pilot on February 06, 2016, 04:23:54 PM: +1 for Transmit

Even more geeky fun may be had with Transmit iOS wth TouchID security.
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: TechnoMonkey on February 06, 2016, 04:57:34 PM: Quote from: awilltx on February 06, 2016, 04:22:33 PM
Wow, I didn't know CyberDuck was still going! I had some problems with it and switched over to Transmit for ftp a long while ago.

Yep! Still going and still free.
Title: Re: Web Hosting
Post by: monymony on March 15, 2016, 11:41:38 AM: I know a bit late posting on this but I have been very happy with GreekGeeks.

With my one account I am actually supporting two separate WeatherCat webpages each with frequent realtime updates. Additionally GreenGeeks support is always there with most issues being able to be resolved with a chat session. I know they are not the cheapest but still priced reasonably well and I will certainly be staying with this based on the great service I have received.