At 10:11 AM 11/9/06 -0500, Gerald Berg wrote: >I am embarking on building my own web page. Currently I am on CityMax >which charges 20 bucks a month with 50 MB of storage -- each additional >10MB costs another buck a month. How do these prices compare with you >all?
I use Pair Networks (http://pair.com/). They are one of the most reliable web hosts with tiers of service depending on your needs. I have a dedicated server for $100/month with 80GB space and 250GB/month downloads. They presently host 190,000 websites. Their main page has a link to their various services. If you're doing anything on which you depend for business, you need reliability. Pair is on several backbones and has insane reliability. I've been a customer for nine years, and was down once for a few hours when they moved the entire building to a new location. Other than that, downtime is occasional and only for major upgrades; I asked for a new hard drive, and it was in place and running in 10 minutes. (I just checked. The server has been up without interruption for 570 days.) The system is Unix-based and user-driven (with active and comprehensive newsgroups), but if you expect a kind of automated web-building system, you won't find it there. Other services are good, but I trust folks who have an actual telephone number answered by a real person, and an "urgent" email system that actually works. :) You know that this cynic doesn't usually wax enthusiastic about a product or service, but Pair Networks is a very rare exception. Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ My blog: http://maltedmedia.com/bathory/waam-blog.html Composer "buy local" bumpersticker: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/bumpersticker.jpg http://www.cafepress.com/buy/80570307/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
