Week in Review

[kate_nepveu]

Wednesday: file brief with the Supreme Court that I researched, helped draft, and helped recruit signatories for.

Thursday: file brief with the Second Circuit that I wrote and then re-wrote at the last minute (see Wednesday).

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: collapse and recover. Have sinus headache. Do laundry, watch anime, curse at web host.

So I've had it with my web host (Affordablehost.com) and I'm getting a new one. I understand that sometimes servers go down, even repeatedly—but when I submit a support ticket saying, "24 hours ago, you put up a bulletin saying, 'this problem should be fixed with 15-20 minutes.' It's still not fixed for me, and the bulletin hasn't been updated. What's the status?" Then I do not want to get a response saying "check the bulletin," especially when that bulletin still hasn't been updated from yesterday's 20-minute estimate!

After looking at several review sites, I've narrowed it down to BlueHost, Lunarpages, and HostGator. All offer the features I want and far more bandwidth, storage, etc., than I'll ever need; all appear to have very good reputations for service. HostGator is more expensive, but otherwise I don't seem much to choose between them. Anyone have any experiences with these three that they'd like to share?

(Tomorrow I will test their support by contacting them with a question about transferring over, but that's for tomorrow.)

Comments

[indigowombat.livejournal.com]

No comment on (or experience with) any of those. I've been using Warped (http://www.warped.com/) for going on 6 years, and been very happy with them. Not everyone's heard of them; their business expands mostly by word-of-mouth, I believe, so I like to pimp them when I get a chance. If you've already looked at them and discarded them, please disregard. Just spreading the word in case you hadn't come across them.

[aor.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about those three, but I've been with pair.com for years, and have never had a problem. I get no traffic of any consequence, though. Mainly my email redirects through them. The appear to be more expensive than average.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

You might want to stop by Webhostingtalk.com (http://www.webhostingtalk.com)--it's a huge forum site for discussing webhosts.

[jorrie-spencer.livejournal.com]

I'll be following this with interest. I need to make some webpage decisions. Although when I see stuff like 2500 emails I think that maybe I can go with smaller!

[gtrout.livejournal.com]

I've been very pleased indeed with tigertech.net (http://www.tigertech.net/). Very cheap, plus excellent support that invariably goes way, way beyond the terms of service.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

I have hosted with Lunarpages for going on three years. I do not recommend them. (The reason it has been three years is complicated. I should have quit after the first year, but Real Life got in the way of me migrating my site each time annual renewal came around.) I plan to migrate my site to a new provider in June, so I am safely gone by August, when my site fee comes due in.

[aor.livejournal.com]

Not to spam your entry or anything, but I spent way too much time reading webhostingtalk.com last night. The saga of affordablehost.com was terribly interesting. The original people, who sold it to dotcanada / light speed last year (and express regret over doing so), still do business as axishost.com and apparently still have a stellar repuation and good service. And you can't move your account to them, because the sale of the affordablehost.com business included a non-compete clause.

You might know that already; I'm just sharing.