A client of mine insists that his friend is doing great with Netfirms, however I hear a lot of conflicting opinions.
Please, give me the good, the bad and the ugly so I can give some more rounded advice to my client.
What are the cons and pros of using UNIX or Windows? Or maybe even Novell. Also, which UNIX distro is most efficient and secure for web hosting?
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhat sort of things make you avoid a company? Personally, it's when they either start their introduction with "Unlike other company's..." and/or they won't be open about who they are.
what are the things that instantly put you off?
I'm trying to understand more the Pro's and Con's for having an Addon Domain vs Separate domain.
Here's my use for it. Site1.com holds all the files, Site2.com holds all the video and images. When it comes time to add a second server (end of this year) I could move Site2.com to a second server and nfs mount it. Thats of the site is separate. PROBLEM: separate site means permission problems, when write code ie.php you can unlink / move files without permission which means setting up special groups.
Addon domain doesn't have the permission problem from what I can see, since the domain gets the group access of the Mainsite. so no extra configuration required. now the problem would be how do I get that addon domain to a second server to offload some of the resources.
I work for a design/ad/development firm that started offering shared hosting several years ago. We purchased some rackspace and started co-locating servers in a big data-center.
As we're growing, we're beginning to out-strip our capacity to manage all these FreeBSD boxes.
How do the pros do it?
- What sort of hardware do they buy? Big beefy machines or banks of disposable 1Us with ghosted OS images, and just swap out ones that break? Are blade servers a good idea here?
- How do they manage redundancy? At the bargain prices most hosts charge, I don't see how they can keep redundant machines
- Does anybody know of a good firewall that can keep up with traffic? We tried deploying a NexCom box with pfSense, and while the management interface is great, it can't keep up with what we need it to do.
I am currently wanting to add a cache engine that eases the apache server for my php scripts. I just wanted to make sure there weren't cons; bugs with certain pages that need to be reloaded very quickly? Has any of you already experienced such bugs with these progs? Which cache-accelerator would you suggest for php-mysql apache?
View 3 Replies View RelatedThey have over a million sites hosted with them. I reckon they must be fairly reliable and good.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have just found the webhost netfirms.com .They ofer great plans but maybe they're too good to be true? What do you think?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI got a website hosted with Netfirms now, But i want to start another website with GoDaddy (i found out they were cheaper). But, to avoid multible billings, i want to transfer my netfirms website to Godaddy. Before i want to start an account with GoDaddy i want to know how to do this.
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently ran into some problems:
- They doesn't support custom installation of PHPMyAdmin on their servers (You MUST use their own admin panel/pre-installed PMA or activate remote connexions)
I'm not sure to understand why PMA doesn't work, but when you create a PHP Script, you must use "MYSQLHOST" as the server host, instead of the usual "localhost". I think that PMA doesn't use the mysql_connect way to connect to the database. So maybe they doesn't allow TCP or Socket connection.
Anyway, that said, if you don't need a custom installation of PMA, you're OK for that point.
- They doesn't support the PHP FreeTypeLib, if you plan to generate image with the GD lib and add some text into it, it may be hard to get a decent result. ( Here I'm thinking of anti-bot confirmation code )
- They doesn't offer any uptime guarantee, and they have no policy in case your server will encounter sporadic down time (just the one I used did for the past 2 weeks)
... And it would be so much a problem if they where offering a reliable service and/or if they where standing behind their costumers. For that, I've been a little deceived.
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More about the down time experience:
So we have contacted the support team, who said that the site is working well at the moment where we called. They doesn't seem to understand what an intermittent problem is.
They said that, as they doesn't see the trouble at the time of the call, they canot do anything (I was expecting them to place an http probe/monitor or something)
They asked us to take a screenshot of our browser next time that we encounter a down time. ( yes, I'm NOT kidding... a screenshot ! That's what I call technical support
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I'm not ready to say that they are a bad hosting service, but, they are a little special as you see.
I saw Netfirms new promotion 250 GB Host with two free domains for $20 1 year. I just wanted to ask you guys what do you think of there hosting service? I've tried there domain for couple of years and they were incredible. Did anyone host with Netfirms yet? or does anyone took there promotion?
View 14 Replies View RelatedIm having bandwidth problems with NetFirms. Using FTP I can get 700KB/sec but when I download from my website using http, it seems to be capped at 160KB/sec. Has anyone else had this problem?
This is ridiculous. I should be getting the same speed, or at least close.
Anyone having first hand review of Netfirms ....
They are offering 250GB storage , 2000GB transfer ( Sure, Overselling ) at :
netfirms.com/max
The above link will give me a whole year for $10,
Just want to inquire about "first hand review of Netfirms" and no criticizing on there price's and overselling plans.
Hey guys... Not sure if this was posted yet, couldn't find anything on a first-glance search.
Netfirms has finally added mod_rewrite capabilities as well as better .htacces support! Now I'm completely happy. I was considering switching over to Dreamhost due to the fact that I've started running blog software and messy URLs = crap. Now there's no need. That was pretty much the only thing that was holding me back from a full endorsement, so if anyone's looking for a good cheap hosting plan, here's some of the stuff that I'm really happy about for $5 a month:
- quick, personal customer service (I think there's only 1 or 2 guys, and they always seem to be able to answer my questions on the spot)
- mod_rewrite
- .htaccess
- reliable clean FTP (no _vti files or other annoying folders like so many companies these days)
- good online knowledgebase
- nice online site stats viewer
- a bunch of other great stuff that I probably have forgotten about or don't use
- only $5!
Just thought I'd share in case the news hadn't spread yet. Not sure when they added it, but I noticed the "NEW" sticker today.
Hi, I'm going to open a site (visitors outside US) using tons of space and data transfer.
It's something need lots of space like file hosting (but most file less than 10 mb each)
So i need an affordable dedicated (or semi-dedicate) with less than $100 a month to host my site. Until it grow and i can move site to local provider (better speed, more expensive)
Currently i aimed to netfirms enterprise 2. it's $69 a month, 100 GB Space/2000 Data Trans.
Do you recommend this to me ? Or other's are better.
I am wondering how to set up a nameserver on my new VPS with 1and1.
I have all my domains hosted on netfirms.
This is what I have done, but doesnt seem to be working:
i have a domain ex: mycompany.com on netfirms and i created an A Record that is ns1.mydomain.com that points to the ip of the VPS ex: 55.55.55.55
I have also created an ns2.mydomain.com. I did this through the netfirms control panel
Is there anything else i need to do?
I have short-listed the hosting services I initially liked down to the following:
1. FatCow
2. An Hosting
3. Host Excellence
4. Netfirms
5. StableHost
6. A Small Orange
Which of them would be most suitable for me. I am about to start a small online business: two websites and a couple of blogs.
I am after proven reliability, 24/7 support, no down time and many resources (which most do anyway).