Comments | kickaha: They have seen the light.

kickaha

They have seen the light.

Aug 06, 2009 15:17

My family has FINALLY decided that golly, gee, maybe their bailing wire and spit mail and web system for the family business isn't worth the hassle. (Lesson learned: quality costs money. You don't get quality by piggybacking off of someone else's server, and relying on a friend of the family admin to let you use it ( Read more... )

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badger August 6 2009, 19:27:43 UTC

Avoid Dreamhost.

kickaha August 6 2009, 19:40:51 UTC

'k, thanks.

meep August 6 2009, 20:09:55 UTC

We've done fine with dreamhost, but mainly because Stu is the computer person.

kickaha August 6 2009, 20:41:48 UTC

Yeah, see, that's the problem I keep running into - these are two completely non-techie people. My brother has the capability, but not the interest, while my mother... let's just leave her out of the equation except as a highly demanding user from hell.

Reliable is good, inexpensive is good, but what would be BEST is "Call this number and have this person set it up for you."

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ginkgo August 6 2009, 21:09:59 UTC

Submitted for your consideration: S** B***. He seems to have figured out how to wrangle your family. :D I keed! I keed!

kickaha August 6 2009, 23:23:24 UTC

LOL As if! :D

tealynx August 6 2009, 22:22:11 UTC

We were fine with dreamhost, until we suddenly weren't. In a massive, site and email was down for a month with little compensation and no real help. I would recommend staying away from them, highly.

Unfortunately we don't have a great recommendation now. Liode is who L is using now, but they are more than a bit over the top tech for most. It's who he's using when he develops sites for others, but probably isn't want you are looking for.

But really, not Dreamhost.

kickaha August 6 2009, 23:23:10 UTC

*nod* Noted. This seems to be what I hear from others - it's fantastic, right up until the point it's not, and then it's tragically atrocious.

georgmi August 6 2009, 23:36:29 UTC

it's tragically atrocious

Great. Now I have cartoon leprechauns singing in my head.

kickaha August 8 2009, 03:59:42 UTC

Always glad to be of service. :D

jinasphinx August 6 2009, 23:13:21 UTC

On the DigitalEve Seattle mailing list, last time this came up it seemed like Pair.com was the hosting provider of choice. I have not used them personally for hosting, just as a registrar (PairNIC.com), and they're fine at that.

kickaha August 6 2009, 23:22:41 UTC

Cool, thanks.