[Hidden-tech] Web site hosting

[J. Cohen]

Gaiahost is local and they're very good.  They don't have SSH, but if 
you don't need SSH, then Gaiahost is a great choice.

If you need SSH, try Bluehost.

Some problems I've had with GoDaddy:
* no SSH access.
* no multiple FTP connections -- if your developer has to edit 2 files 
at once GoDaddy may ban your IP address for 30 minutes at a time.
* I've found tech support isn't knowledgeable


Josh



Paul Stallman wrote:
> I have to ditto Charlie, we have hosted with a lot of companies both big 
> and small and since we switched to GoDaddy I’ve been completely happy. 
> They are big enough, but with a good price point.   The problem with 
> small companies can be that they sometimes don’t last in an economy like 
> this.  We’ve been doing web work for 15 years now and we’ve gone through 
> every extreme, but the one thing I learned long ago is that hosting is 
> not a business to be in without partnering with a big hosting company, 
> too many hosting companies we’ve worked with have overnight gone out of 
> business.  It’s not a situation to be in, about 5 years ago a host did 
> this to us and it took us almost a month to recover.  It almost killed 
> our business.   We had relied too much on a local company that promised 
> to just “take care of hosting” for us. 
> 
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