[Hidden-tech] Free Web Hosting for Nonprofits?

Jason Turcotte jason at turcottedata.com
Tue Jan 9 14:41:41 EST 2007


I too use Dreamhost and have had good luck with them.

The below post states that their email servers are continually down and
blacklisted.  I have not had any problems with the servers being "down", but
they are currently (and have been) blacklisted from various ISPs like AOL,
Earthlink, etc.  The problem with ANY "cheap" hosting is that you are on
shared servers.  Odds are that you are sharing those servers with someone
who will SPAM people and get the attention of a blacklist somewhere.  This
is the down side of the "cheap" hosting plans.  This happens to most shared
hosting companies at one time or another.

What I REALLY like about Dreamhost is their willingness to tell their
customers what is happening.  You don't see that in too many hosting
companies.  Typically you get a "...we found a problem and solved it..." if
you're lucky.  Dreamhost on the other hand has an RSS feed showing system
status and telling you what is actually wrong.  That feed/blog is at
www.dreamhoststatus.com.

I moved from PowWeb to Dreamhost about 10 months ago, and have been happy
with their service so far... barring the occasional blacklist issue.  The
solution to the blacklist is to use your ISP's SMTP server for outgoing
mail.

Jason A. Turcotte
Turcotte Data & Designs
www.turcottedata.com
413.303.1533 or 508.425.7274



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Here's some feedback from someone who specializes in web and networking
services for non-profits. While his experience differs from at least one
post here on HT, it's worth contemplating.

Ed

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Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: Free Web Hosting for Nonprofits?


Thanks for forwarding.  Among my colleagues, dreamhost has a bad
reputation for their free hosting offers.  Their pop and smtp service
is frequently down, the support is nonexistant, and their servers are
blacklisted.  One colleague of mine has two clients on dreamhost who
cannot get their mail to many recipients and the dreamhost servers are
the culprit.  I dont think any of these folks are necessarily getting
this higher level package offered below, which could be an
improvement, but I would not recommend them unless I heard better
stories in the future.


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