On 8/7/00, Eric Dawson penned:
>I need a host. and I gather from cftalk that Intermedia is the winner. I am
>interested in hearing testimonials or other alternatives.
To be perfectly honest, when I signed on with them a year ago they
were wonderful. Their tech support and their console are still among
the best in the business, although to try and use it over the last 6
months is enough to make you lose your hair. It occasionally takes me
an hour just to set up an e-mail account. Click, go make a ham
sandwich, come back, still spinning. Click again, go off on another
project...
Their servers are far too overloaded with CF sites. Where html pages
will server right up sometimes, CF templates take anywhere from 30
seconds to load up until just timing out. The performance, in my
opinion, since around the first of the year has been abysmal at best.
Although I never host new sites with them any more, I do work for a
company it does. It's quite an embarassment when I have to walk a
client through the administration of a site i build only to have them
ask me "Why won't the pages load". I've gone so far as to finally
tell the company that I won't build any more CF sites for them to be
hosted there. I can't in good conscience lie to the customer and tell
them that it's their connection, or I don't know what the problem is.
I do know. Too many CF sites coupled with unlimited bandwidth and
datasources.
And although their 5.00 per month domains at unlimited bandwidth is a
good deal, you don't get your own domain setip. All the 5.00 domains
run off a main domain then are redirected to the site directory with
an asp or CF script. Tough to do search engines. Cleints want to know
why they have an additional directory tacked onto the end of their
URL. After awhile, when you do a search for a site, your site will
come up in the search engines... UNDER ONE OF THE OTHER DOMAINS ON
THE SERVER! :)
Just my experience. I still hear people saying they have good
experiences with them. I went from having over 20 sites with them
down to my current 2, and they'll be off of there soon.
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Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations
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