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Deirdre · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:42 am Post subject: Rescinding a recommendation

Guys and gals,

Once upon a time I sang the praises of Edatarack as a hosting company. I must retract my endorsement, I'm afraid. Two of my sites went down with no alert that the hosting was expiring.

GoDaddy is my everything of choice.
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Dan-O · The Gates of Troy Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 1638

Looks like I am in good company. I dropped Edatarack over a year ago and went with IX Webhosting. Edata would shut down for server upgrades in the middle of a business day, and once got hit with a easily preventable hack and didn't get back up for 4 days. As an added bonus to their failure rate, they never lived up to their money back guarantee, after I had left.

IX has been great and they back up their Linux servers every night. I love that.

ccpetersen · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:05 am Post subject:

I've been using Hostgator for a year and a half; so far so very good.
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JimRon · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:08 am Post subject:

I gotta agree with Dan-O. I'm with IX too, and they are awesome. tech support is great, and their price is really good too.
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Bailey · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject:

I'll get out my eraser... again.
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Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

thanks for the tips, all...I'm with Lunarpages and they give me a heads up way in advance if anything has the remote possibility of getting squirrelly.
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jessespringer · Guest

I agree. GoDaddy gets it done. They're pretty easy to work around for email as well. I host my site on GoDaddy and use GMail for my email servers.

COURVO · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject:

GoDaddy for everything I do... hosting, domains, (at one time) blogging, uploading, ftp'ing, photo-parking... they make it easy and affordable.

Their tech-support is the most awesomest anywhere.... kinda like WordPerfect used to brag about (if you're old enough to remember)....and when you call, it's NOT someone who says he's "Ralph", but sounds like a Nepalese Mountain Guide.

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ccpetersen · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject:

Dave,

I had to laugh at that "Nepalese Mountain guide" thing... because the last time I had to book a relatively complicated air fare I called United Airlines Premiere Exec desk and got a woman who introduced herself as (get this) Betty Ann, but with that Bangalore accent. She was perfectly helpful and we had a nice chat, but the cognitive disconnect between the voice and the name had me smilin' all night.

Hey, not only do I remember Word Perfect, but I still use WordSTAR commands that I programmed into Word! Hah!

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bobbinbeamo · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject:

Same here for Godaddy and hosting. I use DriveHQ for my online storage/ and client FTP server.
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dagoldenknight86 · Guest

I use godaddy for hosting and domains. I have something like 8 sites on the deluxe hosting and works great. With Linux hosting I can have 5-10 different FTP user accounts which works very nicely. With the deluxe hosting (7 bucks a month) it includes 15 mySql databases which is great for content management systems, blogs and banner ad management. I've also had nothing but positive experiences with technical support. They know what they're doing (99% of the time) and are friendly. Oh - they understand customer service!!

allensco · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:

I still use eDatarack as my host. No problems for me....so far. If I have to change, I'll prolly move to GoDaddy.

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ricevoice · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:49 am Post subject:

Another thumbs-up for GoDaddy and their tech support... it's quite refreshing finding a company that when you call and they know exactly what you're talking about and are happy to help.
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Donovan · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject:

I am with LunarPages and have been extremely happy with their support and reliability. And the price is pretty darn good too.
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bobsouer · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject:

Powweb has done right by me since 1998.
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