I am planning to place an order with hostnexus for a windows hosting. I saw them first on whreviews and got impressed by their professional site and quick response to my queries via email.
But can any existing or past customers share their opinions about their uptime, suppor or any other issues? Is it comparable to hostgator for linux?
I have a Windows reseller account with HostNexus on one of their ColdFusion servers.
I have been having some issues for a little while now and thought I would share my experience with others.
I have never posted such a thread and felt compelled to share my experience with others as this is a highly respected client that we do a great deal of other consulting work with.
i have had some ongoing issues with ColdFusion performance on the server and I am extremelly unhappy with the way that the matter has been handled by support staff. Does HostNexus hire their own staff or do they outsource their support, does anybody know?
Since the uptime statistics that are published for the server I am on show that the server is available far more than it actually is. The uptime statistics measure the standard ports and web availability but in our case ColdFusion and/or MSSQL availability has been extremely poor and non existent.
I was going to post a shortened transcript of the issue here but now feel that this would not be the right thing to do so I have removed it, but with the issue continuing and no answers from HostNexus staff....watch this space.
Whilst I understand that their support is limited to email only, I think if a disgruntled client or a client that feels he has been poorly supported requests on more than one occasion to speak to a member of staff in a management capacity this request should be passed on and actioned.
When I try to change hosting type to "Forwarding" it changes ok.
If I change hosting type to "Website hosting", I get message "The hosting type for "website name" was successfully changed.", but hosting plan still stay "No web hosting"....
My account just got nuked by Cari.net, some spammer abused one of my mail servers (I didnt pick this up.. sloppy) So they decided to cancel all my servers. My entire account. No warning.
One of my sites on the server is a social network with 100k+ members
Im sure I will get my account back, dealing with overseas support staff is a ***** tho
In the mean time, im looking for a new dedicated managed server host? Im willing to spend 150-250$ per server..
I just counted 15 threads relating to Windows on the front page here. Is everyone shuffling over to Windows/.NET/ColdFusion or is it just a kowinky-dink?
I would like to compare what windows shared hosting is currently available to what I'm currently using as I'm getting charges for high bandwidth (20 gigs) for 40 websites which is not really high these days and I have to pay $1 every extra gig & its rising.
I don't want a VPS as I have tried them in the past and it is too much effort to set them up although I will use one in the future when I have the time to set one up properly. ALso with the ones I tried the memory couldn't cope and if I needed to get reasonable performance I would have had to pay a lot of $$$
My requirements are (all to be included in monthly price):
# must be unlimited or at least 50 domains can be hosted
# Offer Helm
# 50 gigs Bandwidth or more
# Clean host (no SEO banning or problems)
# Hosting Company Must not be a reseller - I want the real deal, proven & experienced host that has been around for at least 2 years. I will be doing a lot of research so please don't bother plugging your reseller business.
# I want at least 5 dedicated IP's with package
# Must offer AWStats with each domain
# Price: currently paying around $30 per month so something similar would be good
I am providing linux hosting for a while now, but want to expand my services to windows hosting as well.
I am looking to get a dedicated server, but could use some help in deciding what to chose.
What would be better for windows 2003 hosting? It would normally be used for asp.net pages, and people can use ms sql (but the free msde edition). There will also be mysql on the server.
some reliable hosts at nominal rates? I'm looking for maximum uptime and web space for my ecommerce based websites.
Requirements are:
At least 2 GB web space There are 5 domains to be hosted on one server (there will be more in future) Websites are developed in ASP MS Access databases (separate db for each website) Domain Alias
I am planning to move my hosting from SHARED to either VPS / Dedicated / Cloud Hosting(MOSSO) . I am quite confused because:
1. I tried lunarpages VPS, they dont offer multiple MSSQL DB. THey offer only 1 and LIMITED to 1 GB. 2. Dedicated from lunarpages also has some limitations. 3. I heard something called as "cloud hosting" from mosso - Cloud sites, Cloud Files, Cloud servers.. I really dont understand what it means..
Can you please help?
I NEED:
1. Windows hosting - ASP, unlimited MSSQL DB and atleast 10GB space. The site will have atleast 100K visitors / month.
a speaker at a meet-up stated that the only reason Linux is a more popular server platform is that kids starting hosting companies do not need to pay for the license...
whereas college educated techies prefer the windows platform for their servers..
So I thought I would get some opinions from the pro's... which is the overall best server platform
I am currently offering Cpanel Hosting, I was looking into offering a windows based hosting solution. I was just wondering if I could get some feedback on how it is and is it still profitable.
I would like to share discouts found today and looking reasonable. I suppose this information could be useful enough to be posted. so the provider is called 7host.com:
7HOST20LK: 20% off for hosting services 7HOST15DS: 15% off for dedicated servers 7HOST10HC: 10% off for hosting credits
I've been looking everywhere for a half decent, affordable, windows web hosting company. Everyone has CPanel/Linux, and I'm looking for Plesk + Windows. I'm gonna be buying a dedi soon that will run on windows, but I want some shared hosting too.
If you could refer me to some decent hosts, that would be great (and I hate oversellers)
I'm trying to find hosting that offers ASP, PHP, SQL and some kind of control panel (plesk or cPanel) and that accepts Paypal (credit card is okay but Paypal would make it 50% easier.)
Webresellers has taken a bashing on wht but I don't see anything recent so I thought I would share my experience and see if anyone else has input on this company.
I signed up for a windows hosting account a couple of months ago and have been very happy with their service. Support has been fast and competent, no canned responses or 'what problem?' replies. Uptime has been good so far. They offer quite a decent package for cheap windows hosting.
The only negatives might be windows hosting issues more than hosting service issues.
1. Spam filtering is terrible.
2. They offer MSSQL and have an online interface. I forget who developed it but it's nothing like myphpadmin. Quite crippled actually but it will let you create tables. Again probably not the hosting company's fault. Even Microsoft's remote sql server tool has limited functionality.
3. FTP uploads are throttled but it's not a show stopper.
IMHO definately a contender for windows hosting. I've slowly converting my asp sites to php but until I get that done the sites seem to be safe at webresellers.net.
I have been trying to figure out Windows hosting as described in my thread:[url]
To end off the saga and for the benefit of the WHT community, I will make 5 threads about some hosts that caught my interest to collect information and any thoughts/opionions/experiences/comments that anyone might have on each host:[url]I will add some posts on SoftSys for this thread.[url[url]Windows 2008
Excellent ASP.NET Community Support Forum 5 SQL Server 2005 at 3 gig total. 5 gig space 150 gig transfer 5 Domains no static IP
dedicated app pool is $4/mth extra (included above)
I have searched through WHT for Softsys
The amount is not a lot of useful info but everthing seems very positive
The SoftSys forums are new so if you want to investigate this good new SoftSys feature...[url]