[Hidden-tech] Alternative to GoDaddy Hosting

[Baer Tierkel]

I'll second the recommendation of hover.com.  We switched our site
Otalo.com from GoDaddy to Hover last year and it's worked great.

Baer Tierkel
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On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Annamarie Pluhar <
annamarie at pluharconsulting.com> wrote:

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> I've been listening to MacPower Users.  They're very fond of Hover.
> https://www.hover.com/
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> Annamarie Pluhar
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> On Jun 7, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Bruce Hooke wrote:
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>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
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>  A lot depends on your budget and expectations for level of service. I've
> heard good things about Gaia Host. They are a local company and reportedly
> great to work with. However, there pricing is, understandably, higher than
> the usual big far-away operations. If you are looking for something that is
> a step up from Go Daddy but not at the level of Gaia Host I have had good
> luck with Arvixe.
>
> If you are migrating from one account with cPanel to another account with
> cPanel you can simple back up the entire site using the cPanel interface,
> upload the backup to the new host and have them un-zip it. Then you just
> need to change the nameserver settings with your registrar (I use Dotster
> and highly recommend keeping the domain name registration separate from the
> hosting). It can take up to 72 hours for the change to propagate across the
> Internet. So, for that time period you will probably want to keep both
> sites up.
>
> Email can be the biggest challenge since it is quite possible for email to
> get left at the old site if it gets sent there by one server somewhere
> while the intended recipient has already been shifted to the new server for
> email. I always make it a practice to go to the old site and make sure
> there is no unread email left in the accounts there.
>
> Of course if you have a very active interactive website you will need to
> get much more precise in your planning for how to handle the database
> migration so you don't end up with lost or duplicate data, but if you are
> hosting the sites on Go Daddy I doubt you have that sort of website.
>
> Bruce
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> hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] *On Behalf Of *Ken Russell
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:25 AM
> *To:* hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
> *Subject:* [Hidden-tech] Alternative to GoDaddy Hosting
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> Friends,
>
> For a variety of reasons, I'd very much like to get rid of GoDaddy and
> move my several domains to a new host. And soon!
>
> I'd love to get any suggestions as to web hosts you've had good
> experiences with, as well as any tips for making this migration as painless
> as possible.
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
>
> Ken
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