do you like your hosting company?

[guestcam]

I wasnt in the mood to goto the spam me forum, so I am hoping this forum will get me different results.

Is the company that hosts your sites a good hosting company?
Would you highly recommend them? (as oppose to 'they're ok')

Here's my checklist - if the company you work with (and love) hits this list - let me know!

live chat support - I'll settle for emails answered within hours.
nix box
ftp
ssh
control panel
MySQL
Perl, PHP
under $15 or under a month plans

Oh and NO TRICKS or hidden clauses like CPU limits - if the hosting company doens't want me to have cycles used by my scripts in cron jobs, I wanna hear about that upfront. Not find out after the fact that I violated paragraph 19............ pet peeve shady loophole conmen..............


So talk to me........

[Cash]

I love my hosting company, I've been with it since April 2000, you should take their basic virtaul hosting plan, and see for yourself.
Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/rewards.cgi?kiss) with $7.95/month for 120 GB bandwidth, and unlimited domains.

[Jeff813]

Yeah, I like my hosting comapny Acehost (http://acehost.com) Plans $49.5 to $19.95 C-Panel + Unlimited Domains

[Jeff813]

that was meant to say $4.95 - $19.95

[Mattinblack]

Yeah I like my hosting company cos its me! http://kwikfire.com has all the things you need plus a fellow adult webmaster as an owner....lmao

[Jim]

Wow, you are going to get screwed somewhere with your check list and your price cap.

Let me ask, are you making enough to pay a little more for a great host?

[Jim]

I am on the best host that I have ever been on. Most know that GGandJ is hosted with colo-cation.com and as you may or may not know, Chris (Sparky, cd34) posts here and keeps the board running the way it should. And, he made a few cool features like my sig file :)

[Mattinblack]

Yeah and whats more Co-Location sent me a christmass card so they are in my good books as well Jim...!

[guestcam]

Wow, you are going to get screwed somewhere with your check list and your price cap.

Let me ask, are you making enough to pay a little more for a great host?
And how did you come to THAT conclussion?
I made no mention of space nor bandwidth.

Those add ons are NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. they are available all over the place. I need to be sure they are there before I pick up and move, but finding them out there in the wild is NOTHING.

so what in your experience leads you to belive my checklist is gonna make things expensive??

[guestcam]

FYI - this is a forced move I have to do for ONE domain. Its a TGP, but its a starting over TGP so I am looking for reasonable BW allowances but nothing megga big.

That's why I am only going to buy into a new host with a cheaper package. One domain and not established traffic. AND I want to see how they are for a few weeks on support issues, uptime, etc before even thinking about making a move of more domains and buying co-lo's etc........

Make sense now?

[NinjaSteve]

I like my hosting companies and they offer what you need. They've given me great support and I have no complaints.
http://www.webair.com/
http://www.sagonet.com/ (sagonet is dedicated only, but their virtual plans are located at http://www.allmanaged.com/ )

[guestcam]

I am on the best host that I have ever been on. Most know that GGandJ is hosted with colo-cation.com and as you may or may not know, Chris (Sparky, cd34) posts here and keeps the board running the way it should. And, he made a few cool features like my sig file :)
thanks for the lead Jim. I signed up today with your guys. I am looking forward to working with them.

and thanks to everyone who posted their info.

Harry
PS: Found this great thread on starting up a TGP http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/showthread.php?t=17887