Waaah.

[beetiger]

I need to find some very-cheap-but-professional webhosting for my commercial sites. inaki, I am very very happy for the hosting at Dreamchaos this year, but I promised myself that the next time there was an outage of more than an hour or two I was going to have to find another option.

I need a dozen or so email acounts/domain, some reasonable but not huge traffic allowance, and FTP access. Anyone have any good ideas?

EDIT: All set up, though the transfer's being a little kludgy. Thanks for the help!

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[lapis-lazuli.livejournal.com]

We've been very happy using pair.com for.. wow. Almost ten years now.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to recommend them myself. And last I checked, they'll even waive the setup fee if you're coming from another provider.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

This looks promising -- they have multi-domain accounts at a very reasonable price.

[hlw.livejournal.com]

I've been using 1and1.com myself.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I just had Dreamhost recommended to me by misia, who has used them for ~3 years now, I think. They look pretty good, and affordable ($9.95/month for the basic level, which has Far More Space and Bandwidth Than I Will Ever Need).

[catgirlhunterc.livejournal.com]

I agree about Dreamhost. It's pretty good, at a fair price. And you can make me really happy by signing up via my referral link. ;;p

[varjohaltia.livejournal.com]

Second that. They've been doubling their data rates and storage space several times even to old customers at no extra charge!

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Yahoo webhosting is fairly decent. They have all the features you need in a business account and the price is reasonable. If there IS an outage, you have direct access to their help center as a business customer 24/7.

[beowabbit]

This is not what you’re looking for, but I thought I’d mention linode.com. They basically give you a virtual Linux box with an OS installed on it, and then you can run your own web server and mail server. I just signed up with them with the thought of moving some of the services off the server in my basement, and/or of having redundancy for things like DNS and mail.

But in that situation, they're not really a web hosting provider; you need to be your own system administrator, webmaster, and postmaster. (In my case, that’s exactly what I want.)

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Hee, no, totally not my thing. I just want to throw my files up on someone else's server and have them send me my email. ;)

[fferret.livejournal.com]

Um, I havge a Sun U10 box going spare at the moment. I'm on DSL, but I'd be glad to host your sites and admin for a fairly resonable price. We can haggle. (*grins, winking*)

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

That's the kind of setup I currently have at Dreamchaos. I need to move to something that's not a single-box operation. But thanks for the offer!

[inaki.livejournal.com]

Actually Dreamchaos is at a datacenter, but yes, its a single box. =/

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

Check with pholph, whose hosted domains include two different furry webcomics so far.

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

*cough* Five, actually :)

[inaki.livejournal.com]

I completely understand *hug* I'm really sorry the server keeps crashing ;_;

If you want, I can get you a complete backup of both your websites and any unread email, I'd be happy to tgz them up for you. I'm going down into the Bay today to try and fix the server locally..

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

If you want, I can get you a complete backup of both your websites and any unread email, I'd be happy to tgz them up for you. I'm going down into the Bay today to try and fix the server locally..

I'd really appreciate this. Also, send me your snail mail addy, I want to send you some thank you gifts. ;)

[inaki.livejournal.com]

Aww! You don't have to ^^;

I'll post my snailmail addy in a locked journal entry that you can see. =>

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Also, since I can't get there to look, could you let me know what amount of storage/bandwidth I'm using for hte two sites combined currently?

[inaki.livejournal.com]

I should be able to get into the machine tonight. I'm about 3 hours away at current, and still working out a ride down to the train station. I'll let you know though. It wasn't terribly much.. I'll say 200k hits a month at most..

[inaki.livejournal.com]

Okay Dreamchaos is back up, so archives of everything are now easilly doable.. Checking your stats, Lilpagans was pulling 60,000 hits and 4GB/mo, Mother's Hearth was pulling 20,000 hits and 300mb/mo

I'll tgz your stuff and put it up on your old FTP for you (just log into ftp.dreamchaos.net)

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[elven-wolf.livejournal.com]

I've been with MidPhase for almost a year and haven't had any problems.

[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

Although the language barrier can be frustrating, I'm pretty happy with FuitADnet. It's cheap, and I'm poor. I do really like the live help thing, it's good to know that I can "talk" to someone if I have a real problem.

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

While I can see you're already inundated with responses, I'd suggest seriously looking at TextDrive (http://www.textdrive.com). They're not the cheapest and if you compare their plans to other people's, your first reaction will almost certainly be, "Gosh, it's little bandwidth and little space." However, from working in the telecom industry for a while, I can tell you that's in large part because TextDrive is telling you what you're actually getting, and the other companies are telling you what they're oversubscribing their boxes to. It's very common to be selling 3x the space and bandwidth you actually have, because you know that most people will never use more than a fraction of what they're paying for. TextDrive doesn't do that.

The other thing TextDrive has is what I honestly believe is unsurpassed technical competence. They know their stuff better than just about anyone else out there, they're very easy to get support from, and nearly any wild thing you might want down the road, they can probably support. If you're sure you'll *never* actually need anything that involves programming, databases, etc., going with someone cheaper might be better, but for nearly anything that *does,* they're terrific.