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(ISF) Re: Changing Webhosts - Redux question
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2007-08-01 09:08:36

I'm very happy with dotable.com, the host I use for my nine or so web sites (including techcafeteria.com and nptech.info). I can't speak to streaming server capabilities, but they have everything else on your list with a wide assortment of plans at good (not bargain basement, but quite competitive) pricing. Note that the company and pricing are both Australian - the US value is less than the Australian dollars and the servers are all coloed in L.A.

My experience with Dotable has been that the support is excellent, the
uptime and responsiveness is great, the platforms are modern (recent Fedora or Centos 4) and the feature set is good (they use cPanel for managing and provide Fantastico - installing a Drupal or Joomla site is a breeze. But, for geeks like me, they also give me ssh access and nice things like Ruby on Rails support. They have a choice of webmail clients for your users.

I did a lot of research before deciding on them, and it was owner "Aussie Bob's"; reputation that won me. He's lived up to the good things I've heard about him.

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Peter Campbell
http://techcafeteria.com

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>> I've been doing a lot of reading on web hosts - our organization has been with MediaTemple for almost two years, which have been an unmitigated> disaster for us. Their customer service and technical support are horrific (taking days, if not weeks, to get back to us), the migration to the "Grid> Server" has managed to bring down our site and services at least once a month, and frankly, the feature set for site management is so-so - they actually cut services that our users need, such as the ability to self-manage out of office messages (this is now done through the main site> manager only - meaning, by yours truly). The most frequent response we get from MT tech support has been, "sorry, we're working on it." Other companies that have come to the top in what I've found so far include HostGator, ASO (A Small Orange), and Site 5. I'd include DreamHost in this list, but it seems to have also garnered a lot of mixed reviews.>>

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