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Posted by UglyDave on Aug-30-2004 15:19:

web hosting

i'm looking to change my web hosting company,

basically, my dad's using an email address: [email protected] for a new business he's setting up.

However, the hosting i'm using at present is really fuckin slow.

what i want is a good fast pop3 server. and i guess some decent webspace + fast page load times etc....

any advice mucho appreciated!

Davo

Posted by igottaknow on Aug-30-2004 15:22:

i agree

Posted by born2trance on Aug-30-2004 15:49:

1and1.com is what i use, cept i got a free 500MB account, not a paid one. im pricin round too, lookin for a good deal

Posted by SgtFoo on Aug-30-2004 16:21:

if you're in canada or even anywhere in North America, check out www.canaca.ca .... very very nice deals on webspace and bandwidth per month. I'm going with the 24 month silver plan. $8/mo CDN is a bargain for me.

Posted by Magnus on Aug-30-2004 22:32:

Check out www.powweb.com

For $7.77 a month, you get this among other stuff:

1GB of Storage
5GB of Transfer Per Day

Myself and several friends use them. I have not been able to find a better deal anywhere else.

Posted by idoru on Aug-30-2004 22:45:

I really recommend Dreamhost.

They have four plans, and I'm currently on Code Monster; 2560MB storage, 64GB monthly bandwidth, unlimited MySQL databases, 300 E-mail accounts (POP/IMAP), etc.

What I really love about Dreamhost is the down-to-earth/friendly feel they give you. The owner puts out a monthly newsletter that's not real serious, nothing like "We have upgraded our stuff. We have fixed problems. Contact us if you need us." There's plenty of humor and he takes the time to write it himself.

There are also random, free upgrades. Occasionally, you'll get an upgrade in storage space, monthly bandwidth, or something along those lines. What was really nice was earlier this year, they had a special where, if you were already on their Sweet Dreams plan (which I was), you could upgrade to their Code Monster plan and still pay what you pay for Sweet Dreams, which was really nice.

/shameless Dreamhost-whoring

Posted by UglyDave on Aug-31-2004 11:56:

quote:
Originally posted by idoru
I really recommend Dreamhost.

They have four plans, and I'm currently on Code Monster; 2560MB storage, 64GB monthly bandwidth, unlimited MySQL databases, 300 E-mail accounts (POP/IMAP), etc.

What I really love about Dreamhost is the down-to-earth/friendly feel they give you. The owner puts out a monthly newsletter that's not real serious, nothing like "We have upgraded our stuff. We have fixed problems. Contact us if you need us." There's plenty of humor and he takes the time to write it himself.

There are also random, free upgrades. Occasionally, you'll get an upgrade in storage space, monthly bandwidth, or something along those lines. What was really nice was earlier this year, they had a special where, if you were already on their Sweet Dreams plan (which I was), you could upgrade to their Code Monster plan and still pay what you pay for Sweet Dreams, which was really nice.

/shameless Dreamhost-whoring

do you own Dreamhost?

take long to do a send & revieve via outlook etc?

Posted by idoru on Aug-31-2004 18:23:

quote:
Originally posted by UglyDave
do you own Dreamhost?

take long to do a send & revieve via outlook etc?

I don't own Dreamhost, but I do use them for hosting.

I don't use Outlook (I use Thunderbird), but I send and receive nice and speedy.

Posted by igottaknow on Aug-31-2004 18:30:

quote:
Originally posted by idoru
I don't own Dreamhost, but I do use them for hosting.

I don't use Outlook (I use Thunderbird), but I send and receive nice and speedy.

do you own Thunderbird?