Bird Hosting Windows VPS Positive, Thumbs Up Review
Dec 23, 2008
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We've been having trouble with uptime and a SQL box through Lunar Pages in the past couple months and we couldn't take anymore trouble. As such, we went looking for a new Windows VPS provider. Given I'm not a Windows person by default, my daily computer is a
Mac, I needed some hand-holding for the transition.
Through the research for a Windows VPS supplier here at WHT, I selected several firms to investigate and communicate with. Principally Host My Site, Liquid Web, and Bird Hosting. After conversations with each via email and phone calls, Michael of Bird Hosting [url] quickly rose to the top.
Michael, once we informed him of our intention to move to him, had our single-domain Windows VPS migrated from LunarPages to Bird Hosting overnight. Even when a SQL access issue rose up, Michael has been quick to respond and get our support system up and running again.
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Apr 28, 2009
I was hosting with Godaddy in the beginning, but their inflexible packages caused me to look else were. At the current time, my part time employer was hosting a dedicated server with bird hosting. Going back and forth between my VPS at GoDaddy and the VPS my employer had with Bird - I was amazed and also frustrated with the difference - the inability to expand my VPS at goDaddy. I had a 10gig / 512MB at godaddy with Windows.
I wanted more space and more memory but goDaddy's limit was 10gigs for windows - period.
I currently run longarmchat.com which has been growing over the past year and was right at the limit of 10 gigs with the photo storage and videos we had.
I got in touch with Bird and they offered me a windows 2gig mem / 40gig space VPS for just a little more then I was paying at goDaddy. On top of that - they even offered to back it up which I have used due to my own mistake a couple of times already. GoDaddy never auto-backed up my stuff which was another reason I had no hesitation of switching.
To date - I have 10 sites hosted on my single VPS (some using Coldfusion / SQL) and others just static. After a year in march - I feel comfortable with making my recommendation for BirdHosting.com as to where I can stand behind it. Their support is in English and straight forward. No need to have to work your way up the call rep levels - the first person you talk to can handle any issue you have right there from their desk. I always got the runaround or had to tell Godaddy I'm not stupid for them to push me up to a higher level of support.
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Apr 21, 2009
Initially, I was looking for a VPS to host my anime video streaming site. Then, I came across DotXM Hosting website through Hamza's MSN personal message.
I spoke to Hamza about my plans to host an anime video streaming website and asked him plenty of questions in which he answered all of them honestly and professionally.
I asked Hamza if I could start with the shared hosting plan. He said yes. After realizing that I could save alot instead of getting VPS, I decided to give DotXM a shot.
DotXM techs and support team were very efficient. They got my whole PHPmotion installed and working in just one day and for a very cheap and affordable fee!
Till today, my website runs so smoothly despite being on a shared hosting plan. Who says you need a VPS to kickstart a proper video streaming website? ^^
Thank you for DotXM and Hamza and his team for his support, understanding and professional attitude in serving customers.
In short, DotXM is a quality hosting with great value.
Tech Support: 5/5
Customer Support: 5/5
Reliability and uptime: 5/5
Space: 4gb
Bandwith: 40 gb
Price: $3.95! (Old Plan before DotXM Re-did everything a few days ago)
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Nov 8, 2007
Here's my review. I've been with them for over 6 months I believe. I am not sure of the exact date. So far my service with them has been fairly poor.
Everything started out fine, for about a month I had good speeds. I then I made the mistake and rm -rf * in the wrong directory. Ooops, my mistake, new to having root access... luckily I stop it before I do too much damage to the vps server. I open up a support ticket, ask them if they can reload my OS and back up my data before they do it.
They said okay, but it will cost me $30 to redo it and they *will* backup my data before they do it.. Well, they reload my VPS and they DON'T back up my data... I lost all my work and had to reload backups from a week before. I run a large forum, so I lost about 20,000 posts from this. My mysql databases, etc worked fine beforehand but I removed most of my system files.... Worst part about it I paid $30 for the OS restore even though they didn't do what they said they would do and back it up.. They basically said too bad so sad...
Fast forward a few months, decent service, okay speeds. It can be VERY slow at times and takes about 10 seconds to load my page most of the time. The server shuts down for no reason often, and can be down for hours at a time, this happens fairly often. (Every other week or so) About a week ago my site goes down for 3 days and I lose yet another 10,000+ posts because the raid array dies, okay... It happens... Well, since I leave daily backups on the server nothing I can do about it. Now, my site has been down for about another 2-3 days. It finally came back online today..
I also run my business site off the vps along side my forums, and with the constant downtime I have lost thousands of dollars in downtime and data loss. I know it's my own fault for staying with them.
I read good reviews about them, but so far my service has been less than great. I'm trying to find another VPS in the price range. I have been really busy going to school full time and working full time, so I haven't had time to find another vps host and to move my vps server over.
I don't recommend them. Maybe I don't have good luck with hosting, but others seem to do well with them.
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Jul 11, 2007
I have been with VT6 for one month now. I am going to write my one month review and let everyone on webhostingtalk know about their excellent service.
Pre-Sales:
The presales department were extremely helpful in answering all of my questions I had.
They didnt mind the many many questions I have and took time out of there schedule to answer them unlike other companies who couldnt be bothered to answer them and just ignored me. I give them 5/5 for Pre-sales
Service:
Overall the service has been excellent. Their nodes you can tell arent overloaded as the VPS's always run smoothly and theres never any lag in loading up websites because the main servers struggling. The VPS has been well optimized by them and has kept my servers load down even whilst running Vbulletin forums. I will also give their service a 5/5
Support:
Absolutely fantastic. Response times are unbelievably quick, I think the quickest response I had was just over a minute, That is an amazingly quick response time in my opinion. No more sitting around for hours waiting for your problems to be sorted. Their techs are very knowledgeable and know what they are doing and dont just say we will look into it, they tell you what the problem is and what they plan on doing to solve it.
Which is a plus for anyone wanting to learn as they go. They have done an excellent job in securing the VPS and installing various pieces of software to keep it secure. I cannot fault their support so I will give them another 5/5 for support
Overall:
VT6 is a fantastic company with well trained, knowledgeable staff and techs. After having tryed quite a few VPS hosts I would say that this is possibly the best host ive ever used as all of their service is flawless. 5/5 to VT6
If you need a VPS host and a custom solution, VT6 is the way to go.
I do not have any intentions of cancelling with them and I am looking into adding to my services I have with them.
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May 31, 2008
I have been with Atjeu for a little under 4 months now, and have had no issues what-so-ever. Their support times are amazing, and their employees have been nothing but friendly and helpful.
Atjeu's price may be more expensive, but I can attest to their skill and abilities. The price is worth it, 150%. The network has been nothing but fantastic. There has been no downtime attributed to the data center's power or bandwidth providers.
Their SAM interface is everything anybody could possibly want. I have a Core2Quad Q6600, 5GB DDR2 RAM, 500GB SATA II, 80 IP's. This being used as one of our VPS servers, we need to be able to easily update our PTR records. Atjeu is one of the few data centers I know that you can log into their support area, click on "Server Management">"IP management" and put in your own PTR records. WITHOUT having to open a support ticket.
The bandwidth graphs they use are very helpful, and their overall layout of their support center is nothing but fantastic.
Friendly, helpful, and amazing service. I would recommend this company 150% to anybody needing a decent server. It is definatally not a "budget" server provider, and it may cost more than the norm, but trust me; its worth it.
As they say, you get what you pay for. Atjeu puts a whole new meaning to this. I got what I paid for, and then some.
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Jul 20, 2008
I just realized it has been 4 years since I joined ServInt back in June of 2004. After coming to this realization I decided it was time to come back to this forum, where I first read glowing reviews of ServInt and post my 4 year review.
I guess a tribute to how well ServInt has worked for me over the years is the fact that I didn't have my login for this site anymore... easy to loose a login after 3 years of not needing to worry about, or look for a webhost. (A big thanks to Louis of the WHT community Leader fame for sorting out the problem). The last post I think I made was when I did my very long 1 year review here: [url]
Over the past 3 years my server needs have really grown. I now own and manage a portfolio of sites that generate 20 times more impressions (about 6.5 million per month) than I had when I first started with ServInt. In that time I've upgraded my hosting account multiple times to newer and better hardware. The upgrade process was super easy and seamless each time, one of the huge benefits of a VPS environment.
Support has remained consistently wonderful as has server response and uptime. Even with my limited server management knowledge, between their amazing staff and the incredible ServInt community forum I've been able to really grow my business without the stress that I would have dealt with had I chosen other options 4 years ago.
This review is considerably shorter than my one year review, but again, this is just a tribute to how well things have gone. I love being able to sleep peacefully at night knowing that things are covered.
Congratulations to Reed and staff for creating such an amazing company and business culture, and thanks to the great ServInt community for working together to answer questions and resolve problems. I think I've mentioned this before, but I've been amazed by Reed's demeanor as he deals with his staff and customers, and this permeates through all the dealings between ServInt employees and customers and between the community on the forums.
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Jan 2, 2009
It's been almost 3 weeks, more or less, since I signed up with XenVZ (xenvz.co.uk). Sean does a good job on support whenever I put in a ticket - fast responses, always.
As for network stability, it hasn't disconnected from Quakenet (IRC network) since I've gotten it - signon 17d 20h 40m 25s ago.
As for speed, 19:36:39 (10.80 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600] (from cachefly).
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Feb 11, 2009
I'm a VPS customer of Hostchum.
I found good customer support officers there.
They provide about 20 hours a day live-chat service .
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May 11, 2009
Now I'm about two month with sologigabit.com and want to share some impressions with you.
Sologigabit was extremely helpful to me. I needed server with custom config and they ordered some hardware for me. They take only two month upfront.
While they didn't have hardware required, they set up server for me and made it available, so I could familiarize myself with a system. That helped me a lot when I started to install system later.
They didn't offered FreeBSD as available OS to install but downloaded image for me and put installation media into dvd drive, so I could install it myself. They also were helpful providing information about system while I was installing system, as I encountered some problem with FreeBSD default kernel.
I have dedicated remote APC and KVM, so I could resolve almost all my issues myself.
Running for two month with them I didn't encountered any problems, so I probably stay with them for a long time.
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Sep 7, 2009
I am a current customer of Burst for more than 6 months already and so far I am loving their service. There are very, very minor issues but it gets resolved in a timely manner. I have 7 servers with them and looking forward to expanding more. Their sales support Shawn and Benj are very considerate and their technical support Brian is very helpful, knowledgeable, polite and treats customers the right way.
Burst live chat support (AIM) is also the best I have seen with a host.
I recommend them to everybody who's looking for a reliable network and good support!
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May 30, 2008
Thought I would share my recent experience with VertexHost.
I run a vBulletin forum and I had a VPS for over 2 years through PowerVPS. However, due to irreconcilable differences with them offering my current package at a lower price than what I was paying, then refusing to give it to me at "todays price" unless I canceled my service and transfer my data, I parted with them.
I had a "contacting spree" weekend where I contacted 23 different hosts and talked about what I was looking for (I wanted to move to a dedicated server since I figured with my community growing I might as well select a place that I could grow into)
I needed a managed server with decent specs since VB is a server intense application.
Some of the managed server "top players" I talked to were LiquidWeb, AxisHost, and RackSpace. Others were smaller companies that I had saw posted on the dedicated forum offers section.
AH took far too long to get back to me, quite a few days actually. LW would meet at a price for me (my budget was $150- about $170) at $150; however, gave me a very 'downgraded server' compared to what was being offered other places. Finally RS was just way overprices and couldn't come down to my range. Most companies gave me a round-about answer, seemed flaky, or just weren't interested in really helping me.
I had known about VertexHost because I used to host/use Infopop's Eve forum software and they were also on the forums there because they had used UBBThreads before developing their own forum software. Anyway, long story short, I decided to see what they were up to.
Billy from VH was very quick to answer all of my questions and made my sales ticket critical and a top priority. He not only told me what would need to be done in terms of transferring my forum and files (I was coming from Plesk to CPanel) but offered to do it for me.
I agreed that it would be best to have him do it, and he happily did it, free of charge I might add.
Along with transferring my forums over, he also made it so I lost no time while waiting for my domain to propagate. He set it up so the old IP from PowerVPS would send people to the database on my new server with VH.
It was such a seamless transition... my forums were down for only about 2 hours total. I might also mention those 2 hours were from a little before midnight until about 2 AM; a time when the forums are slow any way.
I don't want to get any more long winded than I already have, so in a nutshell VH not only met me on price, but they also transferred everything for me, made sure I had little down time, and were very knowledgeable about any question I had.
I cannot stress enough how highly I recommend them. I'm a loyal customer who likes to stick with what works and who appreciates my business. I do not foresee my leaving VH any time in the future. I can now sleep peacefully knowing my site is in good hands!
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Mar 18, 2009
In this thread i would like to recommend about this company.
I was looking for a good anualy package in respectable price, and then Host-monkey offered a cheap deal and i said why not.
I just want to say that after i joined i got alot of help, anything i wanted and anything i needed.
The site contain realy good costumer system that provide many services.
After few days i decided to upgrade my plan and it was fast and courteous.
The server is realy strong and fast for me, even that im from far away land from usa.
I hope you will choose it too, you wont dissapoint.
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Jul 17, 2008
I desperately need someone to trouble shoot and eventually fix a mySQL/PHP program we had a month ago. The problem was costing the company I do work for nearly $1,000 per day in lost money. I received 15 people contacting me off a post I made on WHT, and elected to work with Dingloo from auroinfotech.com. And what a great decision that was!
Dingloo and his associate from the get go showed great communication skills, professionalism, and most importantly... fixed the problem very fast!
I truly appreciated the work he and his associate did, and the speed in which they completed it. Our PHP script is 100% fixed (and its a very complicated PHP script) and is working great.
I love to give positive reviews, as I feel people who do an excellent job need to received praise. Thanks again Dingloo for your hard work, I truly appreciate it! You've made work around here a lot better, and we all thank you in the office!
We will continue to use your PHP/mySQL/Admin services in the very near future. I put this in the Ded. Server Forum as this included Admin work on 5 of my servers, and other Admin Duties beside programming.
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Apr 10, 2008
--An extremely positive review of 3DGWebHosting
We now have passed 60 days with 3dgwebhosting (3dgwebhosting.com) and what had started as a VPS only endeavor continues to expand based upon the incredible level of support and technical performance we are receiving.
If you would have asked me three months ago about 3dgwebhosting I would have been unable to respond...I did quite a bit of research when we decided to switch from a shared hosting offering with some large shared hosting providers to a VPS. I contacted close to a dozen providers and inquired regarding performance, packages, support, etc. and at the end of the day there was a level of comfort with 3DG that I did not have with the majority of other VPS Providers. Don't get me wrong...there were some shining stars in the bunch but something about 3dg (beyond the great pricing and flexibility) sold me on giving them a try.
Being a serial entrepreneur I have always been partial to working with smaller (at least those that felt smaller!) customer-centric firms for all of my support services from back office to technical. This was no exception. Performance is obviously critical in the technical space but I also view customer service and attentive vendors as critical factors in vendor selection.
Well the short of it is we have been on board with 3DG for over 60 days. Performance has been top notch and the level of customer support has been unmatched by any technical services provider I have used in the past. In addition, 3DG has become a strategic partner and has provided some great insight into how to globalize our technology and incorporate our clients’ needs into our technology platform (i.e. SharePoint). I truly did not expect to see this level of involvement on a consulting front and level of customization on a technology front from a hosting provider – a pleasant surprise! Kudos to David and the 3dg team. We have many sites on the VPS but our primary is glotegy.com.
If my business provides a level of service that is worthy of praise I always hope that my clients will speak their mind and help me spread the word about what I am trying to do. With that said I cannot recommend 3DG highly enough!
Since the inception of the VPS we have also put in place a dedicated server at 3DG that is running Office SharePoint Server and will be live with a hosted solution of Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 CRM with 3DG sometime next week.
Sorry for the long post but as you can probably tell I get pretty passionate about my business and those firms who help me with my global endeavors! To sum it up...finally...3DG is attentive, customer-centric, and a valued business partner.
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Jun 12, 2008
After trying out GoDaddy shared web hosting for 2 months now, I am confident to give you a good review.
Purpose
I got Web Hosting from GoDaddy in order to get ASP.NET. I looked at other hosts but they are just more expensive. So I decided to go with GoDaddy since they provide quite a lot of storage space, bandwidth and of course ASP, ASP.NET 1, and 2, IIS 7 and quite cheap as well. Since HostGator didn't have that option, I didn't have any other choice.
Server Speed & Uptime
I monitor my website using SiteUptime, and there have been 0 downtimes in two months. Not sure how closely SiteUptime monitors a website, but that's what the stats read.
Server speed is very good. For example file upload/download speed is good and doesn't lag.
Scripting Support
Since I chose Windows Hosting, it comes with ASP.NET support, and the ability to create Virtual Directories via the mini web based IIS Manager.
I was actually surprised to see this but they also have PHP 5 . On their windows web hosting package they don't advertise PHP, but after testing a simple file I was just surprised and happy .
Data Base
They give you MS SQL Databases, Access and MySQL. What I really like in their database management area is, it gives you examples of different connectionstrings for your database.
Support
It usually takes 2-3 hours to process each ticket. The support representatives are kind and really helpful.
In a nutshell, GoDaddy really surprised me with their web hosting features, support and just wow .
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Feb 5, 2009
Just wanted to say a thumbs up to HostechSupport.com for giving me a hand with Drive Warning: /dev/sda3 (/usr) is 84% I had for the past 2 weeks or so.
Surprisingly I had problems in the early get go finding someone to help me clear this up. Initially most were giving me quote of $60 an hour to $37 for half an hour of work. Even my old monthly server management ppl, jonesolutions.com, would only offer to clean it up for me for $60 too.
I had to cancel them 2 months ago because I lost my job and couldn't afford $40/month from them. Not sure why they would think I could afford $60 hourly work fee.
So it was nice to find some friendly help and offers when I made this topic:
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May 24, 2009
Been with hostatree for 3 months now and very excited to say how great they are. I have never had to use there support as so far I have had no problems.
My website [url] does use quite a lot of bandwidth and at times can get alot of visitors and I've only heard good things from them about the speed.
I still currently have my old hosting plan as well, but I am in the process of organizing a move all my websites to hostatree.
Good price, very reliable. I was one of the earlier people to sign up so I got a very good hosting deal with one of the coupons.
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Feb 6, 2009
Just wanted to drop a quick review on my current host iMountain.com since I have been so pleased with them and tonight they really went above the call of duty.
First a little background. Been with iMountain since November 2007 on Shared, Luxury and now Dedicated. I run custom DNS with a rollover solution so if my dedicated server with iMountain goes down, my blog will show a splash page that is hosted on another server.
Tonight for some reason the DNS thought my site was down and it rolled over to the backup server. iMountain staff happened to drop by my blog and noticed I was loading the rollover server and fired me off an email to tell me that something was amiss with my DNS since my server with them was in fact up.
How often would a host email you with a problem? Unless it is to suspend you, not very often I would think.
I give the guys at iMountain 2 thumbs up for going above and beyond the call of duty each and everyday. They truly are a great hosting company. I hope to be with them as long as I am in need of a server.
The only big thing I would like to see different at iMountain is having them install a user forum. most hosts these days have them and iMountain should too.
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Mar 9, 2007
Just wanted to take a minute and write up a review for CorporateColo.com (they certainly deserve it )
NETWORK: 10/10 - Fantastic bandwidth, haven't had a single network issue yet
SUPPORT: 15/10 - The support staff would probably be my favorite aspect of CorpColo. They're all awesome, dedicated people who actually care - something you really don't find every day in this industry. Victor, Jon, & Dima really go out of the way to make sure that customers are satisfied.
PRICING: 10/10 - They have some amazing rates and were able to offer me a great deal based on my specific requirements.
BUILDING: 10/10 - DRT is undoubtedly one of the most secure buildings in Los Angeles and CorpColo's suites absolutely reflect this. The policies and structure of the building take away all of the worry, and I have, personally, always felt that my and my customer's data was always safe.
They're really an A++ in my book; I hope to do business with them for a long time!
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May 23, 2007
Although I only ordered my VPS a couple of days ago I felt compelled to make known my initial thoughts on cheapvps.co.uk.
My main reasons for going for cheapvps was not only the cheap prices, but also the fact that a2b2 (a sister company of cheapvps I believe) and Rus appear to have very good reps here on WHT. I spoke to Rus initially via live help to ask a couple of questions and he was extremely helpful which convinced me to make my mind up there and then.
The VPS was set up and going within about 3 hours which is very fast in my book (I didn't get access to it for a couple of hours more but that was just because of an e-mail hiccup causing me not to receive the welcome e-mail). The speed is amazing - especially for a budget VPS. The network is also extremely fast, and the fact I got the choice of it being in the UK was also a big bonus for me.
One of the things that really impressed me though was when I started hitting a couple of snags when running a couple of programs, including Postfix (whose developers decided it would be useful for it to use literally about 90 unix sockets). This caused a problem for the resource limits in the VPS for sockets. Also the kernel memory limit was causing memory allocations to fail as well.
No sooner had I contacted Rus again than the resource limits had been raised to something a little bit more suitable. This also needed to be done for the process limit and file limit.
Tickets are answered very promptly and you can also contact them through MSN which I have made use of a couple of times.
Through this initial phase of getting the VPS running nicely Rus and the guys have been incredibly helpful and accommodating in getting things sorted. I would highly recommend them to anybody looking for a low price VPS, and although I know this is only after the first couple of days I'm sure things will continue this way.
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Jan 16, 2007
We recently migrated our internal data center into Galaxyvisions as a colo customer.
Initially we leased a server from then to review and understand how they truly operate and respond to issues. I must say we have been nothing short of amazing on the support side.
Based upon this we decided to colo some of our equipment and have been equally impressed. The sales people worked with us to avoid the fear of a huge bill at the end of month and proactively reviewed our bandwith usage and requirements.
Staff onsite was great, courteous and very knowledgeable.
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Jun 16, 2007
I just thought id let users know of my excellent experience so far with VT6, I ordered their diamond VPS plan along with cPanel and management. Setup was swift and took 12 Hours including server optimization and hardening.
Ive only been with them since wednesday. They were very friendly with answering all my presales questions. Support tickets are answered within 15 Minutes and one of mine was answered in 3 Minutes which is impressive. They have sorted out a few issues for me ive had after initial setup swiftly.
The server is not oversold and the VPS runs nice and quickly.
So thumbs up to VT6, So far so good. Ill be giving my 1 Month sometime in July
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Jun 26, 2008
Namecheap.com offers PositiveSSL certificate for free at the moment
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I was wondering what is its encryption ability compared to RapidSSL certificate?
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May 12, 2009
Is Godaddy cool for the casino review/sports betting review site?i searched a lot and submit Godaddy a ticket,still dont dig out.
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Sep 26, 2009
Any one have any thing to share with us regarding the one.com hosting company (located in UK)?
According to their awards page:
"#1 UK Budget Web Hosting Provider - UK Web Host Directory - June 2009"
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Apr 22, 2008
I did a search on this site, and read a lot of negative things about site5.com
Is it still a 'bad'company or has their service changed?
Is it better to take a hosting with hostgator.com
Because aren't they overselling their packages: 1500 gb (storage) and 15.000 gb (bandwithe)
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May 21, 2008
After few days of not getting even "one" spam out of average 70 messages a day...the company manager got angry! He thought the mail system is down.
Our provider - a VDS subscriber who rent us shared plan for a website - said: we changed nothing. I confirmed: did you install any new anti-spam software on the site...they said: NO.
In a next conversation with the company manager, they told him they installed a new anti-spam software on the whole server and cannot make it off for our site specifically.
The problem is, they already had a kind of anti-spam software which only "marks" spam-like messages with "**SPAM**" in the subject line, and doesn't mark others. I am afraid some customers' emails get marked and deleted with this new software they claim implemented, based on false positives.
Many times I get my emails in Yahoo and Hotmail go to Spam/Junk folder for some not-widely known reasons, like sending to myself, while putting recipients in CC, and other strange reasons like just using CC in an auto-reply!
something any non-tech person might do.
I am thinking in switching to a new host where we only host mails (mx record), so we don't have "any" email deleted without our check.
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Jul 27, 2008
I used Web Hosting Talk to help me choose a shared web server and the choice I made was Hawk Host.
I just want to say I have had nothing but positive experiences with Hawk Host in the two months I have had it. No down times, no slow downs. Nothing.
Today (a Sunday afternoon) I had a problem with a Moodle course I am running on Hawk Host. This turns out to be a problem not with anything at Hawk Host, but with Moodle itself. I didn't know that at the time, though, so I turned in a trouble ticket at Hawk Host.
Within an hour -- remember, it's a *Sunday afternoon*, Tony had not only gotten back to me via e-mail, he had implemented a solution that is going to solve the biggest aspects of the problem until I can get things resolved with Moodle itself.
I had to come back here to share my experience. I don't post a lot of forum messages at any of the forums I visit, but I read a lot. This time, however, I simply had to write about this. I do not think it is possible to provide better customer service than I have received at Hawk Host.
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Mar 11, 2008
I don't really know much about how mod_security rules work, I've just clicked on default configuration in WHM.
Anyway one user on our vbulletin board has pmed me saying he can't access the board. He gave me his fixed ip. And I noticed it is in CSF denied ip list as:
lfd: 5 (mod_security) login failures from xx.xx....
I've checked mod_security log and it has like twenty entries for this ip saying: ....
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Dec 15, 2008
MonkeyWrench Hosting review - Three year review
I've been hosting my personal sites with MonkeyWrench Hosting for around three years now (coming up in January I believe), and I figured I'd share my experiences with them!
I've gone through a few hosts in my time, and some of them have been pretty rough. After using paid hosts, a niche free host started up that I stayed with for around a year before they eventually closed down.
I switched to MonkeyWrench Hosting at that point as a place to host my sites and store my files, and I have to say that I've been impressed throughout the time I've been with them.
Uptime/speed:
Fantastic! The sites have been perfectly reliable and speedy whenever I've gone to access them, and I haven't had any complaints from users. I did come across MySQL going down on one of the servers (I have two accounts for different purposes that are on seperate servers) in the past, but it was resolved quickly before I even needed to get help.
Support:
I've used the support a few times, but not for anything critical since there's not been the need. However, everything that I have asked was answered promptly in a professional manner.
Pricing:
Again, no complaints here. The pricing is pretty cheap, especially for the quality of service receieved. They aren't the cheapest on the Internet by any means, but you generally get what you pay for. I'm aware of what my realistic space/bandwidth needs are anyway, and I'd rather pick a host that clearly advertises what you'll receive over an 'unlimited' host.
All in all, MWH have been a fantastic choice and I couldn't have hoped for anything better.
So, thumbs up to Jonathan, and keep up the good work!
I'll report my domains for the moderators to check them out. =)
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