On 8/28/11 10:23 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Stephen Hansen > <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote: >> Get a new webhost. ... >> >> But I don't know if they have a warehouse in Australia, if their latency >> with any of their various data centers is suitable for you. Maybe, maybe >> not -- but there /has/ to be a better option then this site... Good >> hosts these days are not all that uncommon and are fairly competitive. > > Having burnt my fingers with a couple of web hosts, and finally > decided to host my own web site, I have one major piece of advice > regarding this: > > Get a personal recommendation.
This is good advice, though with prices as they are in many cases -- provided you don't need to start out immediately solid and have some development wiggle-room -- its not a bad thing to experiment. Just don't get too tied to a certain host until you feel them out. Sending them emails with detailed questions before you sign up is a good thing, for example. Good hosts will respond with detailed, specific answers, from real people. Bad hosts will point you to a vague website or stock reply. Real people, reading your real questions, and answering with real answers is a major, major sign of the kind of company I want to do business with. (Bonus points if they respond to complex, technical and legal questions with specific answers within 24 hours -- bonus++ points if the non-legal questions usually get responses in 1, at absurd times even). > BTW, don't take the fact that I host my own site as a negative > recommendation for every hosting company out there. My requirements > are somewhat unusual - I want to host a MUD, not just a web site. > Hosts that let you do THAT much are usually quite expensive :) Hehe, I don't want to get overly advertising in my comments (so I'm so not including a referrer link anywhere), but amusingly enough, my first Webfaction account was signed up for the MUD reason. They officially don't give a rats ass what you run in the background, provided you're just not using more then your RAM allotment and that its not spiking the CPU to a point that affects the rest of the system. I have one account that runs a mud, one that does often semi-significant background processing regularly via cron jobs (which they mailed me about once when it got out of hand-- but they were entirely professional and nice about it, and I fixed it with some controls so it behaved in a more friendly way towards the rest of the system), and one for my personal site where I run an IRC bouncer on, and all is cool. (Why three accounts? One is paid for by a client, one half by me, one by me -- it was just easier, and no way it all would fit under a single plan) Anyways. I shall not further ramble as a satisfied-customer. -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/
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