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Web Hosting
« 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.)
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Re: Web Hosting
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2016, 02:24:37 AM »
I agree to skip Godaddy. I've had Hostgator 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]
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Re: Web Hosting
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Web Hosting
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2016, 03:10:46 AM »
directNIC (2006-2012) and NameCheap (2012-). [tup]
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Re: Web Hosting
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2016, 03:42:01 AM »
NameCheap looks good. Thanks
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Re: Web Hosting
« Reply #5 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. =)
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More ideas?
« Reply #6 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.
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awilltx

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Re: Web Hosting
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: Web Hosting
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2016, 05:15:13 PM »
https://www.hosteurope.de/en/

More than satisfied with their performance.

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« Reply #9 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
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awilltx

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Re: Web Hosting
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2016, 08:59:39 PM »
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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
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« Reply #11 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!

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Re: Web Hosting
« Reply #12 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.
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awilltx

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Re: Web Hosting
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2016, 04:22:33 PM »
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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.


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« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2016, 04:23:54 PM »
+1 for Transmit

Even more geeky fun may be had with Transmit iOS wth TouchID security.
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