Comments on: Gallery & Web Hosting

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Page-zone has provided good service and a high level of technical expertise.

For under $20/mo I get 2GB storage, 10 GB bandwidth, and I can host as many other domains as I want.

I provide free hosting to family and friends (15 other sites) and never come close to using up the resources.

Jim Snape, who runs Page-zone, is sharp and understands the need to provide shell access, SSH, and help with installing mods on the server.

If you don’t choose, page-zone, be sure to get a reseller plan that lets you hosting multiple domains. You never know when you’ll need geekfood.com or refenestration.org.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Use apache and your computer! I’ve hosted ipickmynose.com, freshmaker.mit.edu and wheres-luke.mit.edu (with virtual hosting) for years and I’ve had very few problems. Zoneedit.com and Public DNS do DNS serving for free.

By: Josh Baugher

Josh Baugher — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve heard good things about http://www.cornerhost.com/.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Adrian: I’m wary about hosting off my own computer primarily because if the power goes out, my website goes down :(. And, it’s also contingent on my ISP allowing (or at least not disallowing) hosting a website off my connection (which might not always be the case).

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Blogomania has over 300 clients using MT, many of which use Gallery too. Plus you’ve met me live & in person and we’re both in Texas. ;) (Right. Those are the reasons you should pick a host. How about the rates are right, we can offer everything you need, and support - if you need it - rocks!)

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Oh - and the basic plan - 200mb of space - works out to $10 a month if you go quarterly - which is just $120 a year. If you need more space and want to pay the full year, we can work out a annual price point for you.

By: Josh Baugher

Josh Baugher — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Some friends of mine use http://www.phpwebhosting.com/ and http://www.he.net/hosting_prices.html (sorta pricey, but oh so fast.).

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Alex, I'm looking at hosting places myself recently, and here are my top two, based on ratings and personal recomendations:

ICDSoft servers in Hong Kong so they're ping time is sometimes slow, but transfers are quite fast (check out my friends page for example). Only offer one package: $5, 333mb, 5gig transfer, and their customer service, via email, is legendry; always responses within minutes 24/7.

Burton Hosting also highly praised by all their users. Offers a $7.50/month, 500mb 8gig transfer.

But I'll certainly check out some of those mentioned above as well... Was good to see you in Boston.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

cleverdot.com works for me

By: Tob

Tob — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using Logjamming for about a year now too. I’m switching to either Verve Host or OpenSourceHost. The LJ people never update their software, and every time I inquire about maybe upgrading to, say, a version of PHP that doesn’t date from the Clinton administration, I get nothing, not even a reply back. The IMP version they run probably predates HTML. Man that thing is ancient. That isn’t the only out of date software they use either. I don’t know if its simply laziness or ignorance to blame for this one.

And now, the server runs so god awful slow that doing a rebuild in MT takes ages. Probably 2-4 minutes for a moderately small blog.

Not to mention that the pricing really isn’t that great, given the other problems I have. It just seems like I get a lot of either a. confusion or b. attitude when I contact ’support’.