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Aaaaaand.... we're *hic* back!
"Back? Where did you go??"
— read on, you'll know in a minute.
I've had a couple of websites hosted at PowWeb since 2005. Even tough I had had other hostings before that, their plan really looked promising, at the time.
For the first year, everything went smoothly. After that, the lack of SSH and their poor handling of a few issues I had with my account really started to bug me.
When the yearly invoice was approaching, I really wanted to move everything elsewhere, but I ended up staying simply because it was too much of a trouble. Didn't want to move the whole set of websites, since, if I recall correctly, it was during some busy busy weeks.
But come on... this is 2008, the 21st century! No one should have their websites hosted on hosts they don't like. That's why this year, I got off my ass and moved everything to slicehost. Yes, I'm finally free of PowWeb! And that makes me smile.
On the table, I had mediatemple's (gs), slicehost and gandi. I decided to grab a slice and see how it goes. I'm on a monthly basis, so if I want to pick up and leave, I will. And yes, I know they were just bought by RackSpace. I'm an optimist.
With the total control over the machine, comes a lot more work. Since I've never worn the admin hat very seriously, some of you might have felt a few *hiccups* on either one of my hosted domains:
- *.andr3.net
- mobifeeds.net
- brunoluis.com
If you find something out of place, it's either a glitch in the Matrix or I've overlooked something.
Give me a shout, will ya? Thanks.
Raul Pedro Santos on thu, 30 oct 2008 00:32
I've been on Slicehost for some time and had a great experience. After a few months, due to lack of time, I decided to move my sites to MediaTemple, which seemed to have a great reputation. Unfortunately, they're having tons of problems with their (gs) platform. I like the service but these problems are becoming not just frequent but constant and if you add to that the horrible slowliness (is that a word?) that I keep experiencing, I really don't know how much longer I can take it, which means that it's likely that I'll be also getting back to Slicehost shortly.
Or perhaps I'll wait and try Mosso's Cloud Servers, which seem to be a lot like what GoGrid and a couple others are providing.
Why do you say you're an optimist when referring to the Rackspace acquisition of Slicehost? Did you have some bad experiences with them?
thespirithotel on thu, 30 oct 2008 02:04
andr3 on thu, 30 oct 2008 13:58
Thanks for the "b" tip. I did overlook it. Fixed.
Reading that about mediatemple is scary. They're so temptive, almost to the point of shelling out more bucks for the same service. I hope everything turns out for the best, in your case. Either staying at (mt) or moving back to slicehost.
My comment about Rackspace was aimed at some people's fears of increased prices and tighter limitations. I have no experience with Rackspace products, but they do have some good "street-credit". I've found several positive comments around the web regarding their Mosso cloud servers and none negative. Let's wait and see, but if their solution fits your needs, why not? I just don't need that much, to be honest.
@thespirithotel:
Yeah. There were a few problems with http://digg.andr3.net, but they should be all solved now. Let me know if it fails you again, ok? Thanks.
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