Comments on: Chris’s Adventures in finding a Web Host

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:35:19 +0000

Chris: i fully expect that 1and1 does those horrible things because they’re replicating your data across a server farm. It’s the only way that I can explain their pricing.

I didn’t mention it when you were looking [because I was mainly worried about other things and also not really wanting to lose your business ], but Joyent/TextDrive is a good provider.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:34:36 +0000

Yeah, Ron, I’d say that’s a pretty sweet deal. Geof’s deal is pretty darn good, too, though.

I still just don’t get how any hosting company thinks you can get along without a file manager and the ability to unzip files. As long as you can absorb the “pay up front for a year” cost, LunarPages will be very usable and oh-so-much more powerful.

By: Ron Davis

Ron Davis — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:01:19 +0000

I’ve got a pretty sweet hosting deal with some friends. They have a rack in a data center down in Atlanta.

1. I pay nothing
2. No cares about disk space.
3. No cares about bandwidth.
4. Full access to the boxes.
5. I’m on the list of people allowed to get into the rack.

It pretty much doesn’t get any better than that.

Thanks for the mention of 1and1. I was actually going to be checking them out soon because of a project I’ve got “on the side” that would require a decent amount of bandwidth (more than I’d try to leech off of a friend).