It's all a lot of oysters but no pearls.

[dejana]

.moon AND its host are having trouble again.

Anyone got a good stable web host you can recommend? I've had just about enough of this crap.

EDIT: It's back up now, but still. The irritation, it burns.

Comments

[faithfullove.livejournal.com]

I use www.hostingct.com for CPRPG and my other sites. Not as cheap as others but I haven't had any problems with them and I have been with them since December 1999.

My dad uses BlueHost and likes it alot. You gotta do a one year contract type thing though, and I know I can't afford that, but if I could I would.

[faithfullove.livejournal.com]

http://ww4.aitsafe.com/go.htm?go=www.hostingct.com&afid=14155&tm=180&im=1


My affiliate link for HostingCT.com if you want to use it... You get the same price either way, using the link I get a kick back.

[lordshipmayhem.livejournal.com]

I think any recommendation would depend very strongly on what kind of traffic volume the site's getting. Some hosts are OK with smaller-trafficked areas, whereas others are for the busier sites.

Three years ago Groklaw went through three hosts real quick, like in about three months: Pamela Jones' site kept getting slashdotted as interest in the SCOX vs. IBM and rest of known world got more interesting and intense. Each host was able to handle the volume that crashed the earlier host. Her current host seems to be pretty good albeit not perfect, but it's dedicated to Open Source software advocacy sites.

For stability, stick to the LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL and either PHP or Perl. Avoid Microsoft hosting solutions at all costs, they're both more easily hacked and more unstable, aside from the software licencing costs that LAMP just doesn't have.

"Slashdotting" or "The Slashdot Effect": When your site is mentioned on Slashdot.org, resulting in a sudden increase in traffic.

[aarana.livejournal.com]

I use Blue Host, and I Have never had problems. Once, when some hackers shut them down for a few hours...and to make up for it they gave everyone extra space.

:)

It's not bad in price either! You do pay for a year, and its 100$.

For the "perks" I have:

15Gig space
400gig bandwidth a month
6 domains
A free Domain at signup
2,500 email accounts
20 sub domains
1,000 ftp accounts
50 SQL databases

See for yourself!
http://www.bluehost.com/tell_me_more.html

[(Anonymous)]

Um...I know this isn't a recommendation, but I can't seem to reach dotmoon again. (Oh, at it is Eastern Daylight Savings Time 6:40pm 7/23/06). Just wanted to let you know.

~December