Jeepers
08-04-2002, 04:17 PM
Hi Guys
I currently have my business web site hosted by a UK (Cumbrian) company and they are garbage. They run IIS on WinNT (unable to CHMOD permissions), they are offline 20 - 25% of the time (Sundays, like now, for about 4 - 5 hours), only one person has any idea of the hosting and he is always busy with a 'customer' (the same one each time?). As you can see I'm pretty pi**ed off about it.
I have learnt my lesson now so I am doing a bit of research to try and find a new one.
I really need your recommendations --
In order of importance my new server must
1/ be reliable in terms of up time
2/ host my existing .co.uk domain name and not an alias (or whatever it's called)
3/ be able to FTP site changes directly to site etc etc (amazing how many don't allow you to do this)
4/ be on Unix running Apache (for .htaccess)
5/ have SSI, Perl 5+ (plus asp capibility for later on)
6/ a decent stats service and/or availability to logs
7/ half decent customer service who are helpful and know what they are talking about
8/ a minimum of 10 email addresses, pref unlimited
9/ a minimum of 10mb space (more important than bandwidth at the moment)
10/ off web space would be nice but in no way essential
Cost is not an issue, the service is more important. I currenly pay £120.00 ($200 approx) a year, unfortunatly I've just paid it but I'll argue that with them later.
I don't think the above is too much out of the ordinary or to hope for. Any and all suggestions please.
Thanks
ps if any body wants to know who this terrible host is then email me and I'll let you know (so that you can avoid them and I don't get sued for publically broadcasting it)
I currently have my business web site hosted by a UK (Cumbrian) company and they are garbage. They run IIS on WinNT (unable to CHMOD permissions), they are offline 20 - 25% of the time (Sundays, like now, for about 4 - 5 hours), only one person has any idea of the hosting and he is always busy with a 'customer' (the same one each time?). As you can see I'm pretty pi**ed off about it.
I have learnt my lesson now so I am doing a bit of research to try and find a new one.
I really need your recommendations --
In order of importance my new server must
1/ be reliable in terms of up time
2/ host my existing .co.uk domain name and not an alias (or whatever it's called)
3/ be able to FTP site changes directly to site etc etc (amazing how many don't allow you to do this)
4/ be on Unix running Apache (for .htaccess)
5/ have SSI, Perl 5+ (plus asp capibility for later on)
6/ a decent stats service and/or availability to logs
7/ half decent customer service who are helpful and know what they are talking about
8/ a minimum of 10 email addresses, pref unlimited
9/ a minimum of 10mb space (more important than bandwidth at the moment)
10/ off web space would be nice but in no way essential
Cost is not an issue, the service is more important. I currenly pay £120.00 ($200 approx) a year, unfortunatly I've just paid it but I'll argue that with them later.
I don't think the above is too much out of the ordinary or to hope for. Any and all suggestions please.
Thanks
ps if any body wants to know who this terrible host is then email me and I'll let you know (so that you can avoid them and I don't get sued for publically broadcasting it)