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Message # 27454.2.2.1

Subject: Yes!

Date: Thu 15/02/07 11:13:52 GMT

Name: leonmoomin

Email: leon@mostwet.com

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Just take a very quick look around, how many wam sites use themothership?

There are good reasons for that!!!

leonmoomin

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No thanks

By Graham (Styx) - Thu 15/02/07 06:29:05 GMT

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Thanks for thinking of me, but I have a core of happy customers already and they get a really reliable service. I offer very reliable hosting and that comes out a bit more expensive than the discount/cheap offerings. Too many people were looking to save a few bucks rather than considering reliability for their services, sites and members. I therefore decided to pull out of hosting new WAM projects, but I continue to provide services to my longterm customers. I also host around 300 commercial websites, but it was becoming too time-consuming trying to match the discount hosts out there. You get what you pay for and that's why I recommend Mothership to anyone that asks me for hosting.

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Re: Web hosting suggestions?

By AnthonyX - anthonyx@jowc.net Wed 14/02/07 20:54:15 GMT

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What about grayhost (Graham of the Styx folks)? They've apparently been hosting a number of WAM sites.

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Web hosting suggestions?

By Telcontar - mrnemesis@ntlworld.com Wed 14/02/07 00:04:21 GMT

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WetInRed.com (as well as LL, REG Productions etc) is hosted with Globat, who are a bunch of complete monkeys. The hosting is due for renewal at the end of the month, and I want to jump ship and go with a decent host.

Before he died, Steve was set on IX, but I've been reading up on them and they get some pretty terrible reviews. My own host (ICDSoft.com, for my personal site) gets nothing but endless glowing reports, but they're not cut out for large sites like Steve's, else I'd go with them instantly -- they're wonderful.

WetInRed.com has just over 15 GB of files, and uses about 200 GB traffic each month. The site needs PHP 4 and mySQL 4 (all Globat offer!), and Apache hosting (since I'm familiar with Apache).

So far, LunarHost looks to be good bet, maybe Host Gator (but "Gator" as a name instills fear in me ;) -- anyone else have a better suggestion? Obviously, we need plenty of headroom past our present 15 GB/200 GB usage.

I am perfectly happy reconfiguring Apache by hand: all I need is reliability! A host that won't accidentally wipe the site (as Globat did with Steve) or break the stats or the FTP go down for hours in the middle of a big update, or the back-up system settings get wiped by server faults ...

After all, who needs 24/7 live and phone chat (which I don't have with ICD and never desired) when the site works properly in the first place? :P

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