Web Hosting Suggestions

[MBR]

One company to stay far, far away from is NPSIS.com.  They used to be 
the best in the business, but they were sold and under the new owners 
they're become as bad as they once were good.

The original NPSIS spoiled me.  I got used to being able to speak on the 
phone to someone who had serious Unix expertise.  I've been a software 
engineer myself for decades, so I didn't need help most of the time, but 
when I did it was about some difficult and complex problem.

Since NPSIS went bad, I've been using *hostforweb.com*.  They're not 
quite as good as NPSIS used to be.  You can't talk to their 
knowledgeable people on the phone.  You can only communicate with them 
via trouble ticket.  That can sometimes be a problem, but I haven't 
found any other hosting company that makes their Unix experts available 
for phone discussions.

When I've submitted trouble-tickets to hostforweb.com, I've usually 
received a response in about 1/2 hour, and my problems usually get 
solved pretty quickly.

Also, they allow access to a Unix shell via ssh which most companies 
don't, and they don't require you to fax your driver's license to them 
before granting you shell access like hostmonster.com does.

All in all, I'd say my experience with hostforweb.com has been quite good.

    Mark

Mike wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm interested in obtaining opinions on some of the web 
> hosting companies out there (linux hosting). I've been 
> considering companies like HostMonster, GoDaddy, etc... Which 
> companies are good, which aren't?
>
> I have a small business and my new site is ready to go up. My 
> old site is hosted by a free web hosting service (atspace) but 
> it's not been very reliable. Many times I can't ftp into the 
> site to make changes. There's been some downtime with the site 
> itself and the email server seems to be down more than not. 
> It's free though so how can I complain.
>
> I'm looking for something inexpensive but obviously reliable.
>
> Any input would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>