What's your hosting company? Do you like it?
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- Sean Downey
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I use Network Solutions myself.
It's nice to have all of my domain names registered with them as well as my hosting. One easy-to-use control panel to manage everything from adding new email to renewing services. Great customer support and extremely rare server down times. They also continue to update their service and pass the savings on to me. Since starting with them, my number of databases has double along with my available storage, and my email quota as almost tripled with no additional cost to me.
Competitive pricing as well:
www.networksolutions.com/web-hosting/compare.jsp
Hope this helped someone.
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- GollumX
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Andy Miller wrote:
For what it's worth as most of you know, RT is currently hosted on a dedicated server with server4you.net. Overall i've been pretty happy except some issues with email sending. Anyway due to increased load and general degradation in performance i've got a new beefy server with theplanet.com (which is where rochen.com got there machines previoulsy) and am very pleased so far. I've not moved over RT yet as it will require some downtime as IP's move over and due to the nature of the forum/accounts, I can't afford to have both systems operational at the same time or it will be very confusing.
I've had lots of people (you know who you are) approach me with questions about RT doing hosting, and I'm thinking about it. Just need to find the right people and determine if it's a viable move.
cheers.
I know this is not being put to the vote, and my opinion may not count, but here's my two cents anyway.
I do not think rockettheme should diversify. I believe you should stick with what you're great at, themes. Sure hosting may rake in more greenbacks in the short term, but your core business (themes) will suffer as a result.
If you were to sell hosting, even with additional hired help, you would still need to dedicate a lot of your time overseeing this new venture. Having to divide your efforts, skills and TIME between two very different operations would surely have a negative effect on both.
Personally, I would hate to see that happen.
If you were to... say... release more themes and extensions per month(i'm more than satisfied with your current output) or even go into wordpress themes(yuck) etc... that would surely grow your membership and earnings.. while not having to move away from your core business... which seems to be very very successful.
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- Stew Thompson
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GollumX wrote:
Andy Miller wrote:For what it's worth as most of you know, RT is currently hosted on a dedicated server with server4you.net. Overall i've been pretty happy except some issues with email sending. Anyway due to increased load and general degradation in performance i've got a new beefy server with theplanet.com (which is where rochen.com got there machines previoulsy) and am very pleased so far. I've not moved over RT yet as it will require some downtime as IP's move over and due to the nature of the forum/accounts, I can't afford to have both systems operational at the same time or it will be very confusing.
I've had lots of people (you know who you are) approach me with questions about RT doing hosting, and I'm thinking about it. Just need to find the right people and determine if it's a viable move.
cheers.
I know this is not being put to the vote, and my opinion may not count, but here's my two cents anyway.
I do not think rockettheme should diversify. I believe you should stick with what you're great at, themes. Sure hosting may rake in more greenbacks in the short term, but your core business (themes) will suffer as a result.
If you were to sell hosting, even with additional hired help, you would still need to dedicate a lot of your time overseeing this new venture. Having to divide your efforts, skills and TIME between two very different operations would surely have a negative effect on both.
Personally, I would hate to see that happen.
If you were to... say... release more themes and extensions per month(i'm more than satisfied with your current output) or even go into wordpress themes(yuck) etc... that would surely grow your membership and earnings.. while not having to move away from your core business... which seems to be very very successful.
Consider this .
Very well put. Strictly speaking, if it is about money, I agree that more themes are the best way to go. - www.bentonhighschool.com/
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- John Sanchez
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What a bad day to wander into this topic. I have people getting bouncebacks when they send email. So I called my webhost (who I shall not name, but it rhymes with "iTowerVeb") to get it resolved. "Yes, I see that there is a problem with your email server, but I do not have the resources to fix it. I have submitted your trouble ticket and you should hear back from someone in about 12 hours."
And now my site is down completely. Heh. When it rains, it pours.
Time for a new webhost.
What is your experience with reseller hosting? Was thinking about hostgator.com's reseller account. Just have the group pay me for it... I guess that would be kinda cool. Do they charge per domain that's hosted? Or is it just a flat fee and you pay for the amount of bandwidth and storage space you want?
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- Natalie D.
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- FYI, for anyone still following this thread... I was looking for a hosting company in Germany and have found one that looks quite good: http://www.joomla100.com . I did what i often do in "checking out" an online company before I order services -- I emailed their support dept a total softball easy question to see how long it would take them to respond. Joomla100 staff took exactly 9 minutes to respond and it wasn't canned blah blah (like what I usually get from Lunarpages) -- it answered my question directly and simply. On the basis of their service offering, the overall helpfulness of their website, and the quick response time, I recommended them for my current project. Oh - also - the company founder is a moderator on joomlaportal.de.
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- Jordan
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all those "Joomla" hostings look soo pathetic why would you join anything like that.
I mean im fine with Dreamhost and that Joomla100 shows the starter kit for 200mb space and 10gb bandwidth... while dreamhost gives you 200gb space and 2tb of bandwidth..
Whats so damn special about any of the Joomla Hostings... all they want is people who think "omg hosting especially for joomla!" and pay so much for the same amount of features I can give someone for free.
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- Natalie D.
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Well... I've recently had the experience that a web host completely blocked access to files that are key to Joomla security settings and refused assistance with the issue because they said they didn't offer support for Joomla (even though they did in fact offer automatic installation of Joomla). This means that the only way I can make even a modest attempt at preventing this site from getting hacked is to switch web hosts. As far as country-specific hosts go, some of my clients require it, that's all, and sometimes that limits your choices.
On a more upbeat note, while we're still (maybe) on the general subject, I contacted Siteground today and they said that they no longer have a limit of 7 support contacts per year after which you have to pay. Their current policy is apparently unlimited support contacts. - Last Edit: 17 years 9 months ago by Natalie D..
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- Joe Halleck
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These reasons above are why having your own VPS is a great solution.
Shared hosting will be cheaper of course but you get what you pay for.
Since I have been admining my own server I would never go back to shared.
On those hosts that give you big disk space quota's and BW quota's...they are betting that you never will get to that point and usually over subscribe their servers and BW limit to boot.
Most BW numbers they give you on your site would never get there as most of the shared hosts limit the overall BW to each site.
Read the fine print - big numbers are not always what they seem.
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- Jordan
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Hm... could you tell me precisly what VPS is in a simple way?
As I wrote before in thsi thread, I subscribed for Dreamhost another 2 years beccause they have great bw quota and space quota and I needed it for my upload system but now I dont use an upload site anymoer/./
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I have used LunarPages, Dreamhost, BlueHost, and even GoDaddy. This is how I rank them (I am currently hosted with BlueHost)
1. Bluehost
2. Dreamhost
3. Lunarpages
4. GoDaddy
That's from my experience with them.
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