[thelist] looking for serious hosting

[Jacob Stetser]

Well, I'm glad that your experience with them has been good. Perhaps the servers we've been on have been located in a different facility and the people we talk to in the basement of the customer service department. I personally use FutureQuest - about the only drawback I can think of right now is that they don't yet offer dedicated hosts. Their service and speed, however, is amazing :)

Jake

On Tuesday, November 7, 2000, at 10:10 AM, Tom Webb wrote:

> Haven't had that experience.  All my customers have very pleased with  
> CIHost and their service.  I have never found their servers to be slow.  I  
> use Perl exclusively so I can't speak to the PHP issue.  However, every  
> Host has some problems, I am saying overall my experience with CIHost has  
> been positive for my E-Commerce clients and found that CIHost has met their  
> needs at a reasonable price.  One anecdotal negative experience should not  
> write off the entire service.  Try doing anything with Verio. 
> Tom Webb 
>  
> At 06:03 PM 11/6/00 -0500, you wrote: 
> >I don't mean to start anything, but I've worked with sites on CIHost  
> >before and so have several people I know. Their technical support and  
> >their speed are both extremely slow. 
> > 
> >I'm not sure of their prices lately, but the latest victim (that I know)  
> >of their appeal has told me they are reasonable. However, given how slow  
> >their servers have been in my experience, coupled with the fact that their  
> >technical support is slow and usually ineffectual, I couldn't recommend them. 
> > 
> >Anecdote: I wrote a small PHP upload script for the friend  in question  
> >and we discovered that the upload limit for PHP was 2 MB. That setting is  
> >easily changeable in php.ini. Perl, on the other hand, was set with an  
> >upload limit of 10 MB. 
> > 
> >Tech support refused to change that setting for parity between the two  
> >environments, saying it would 'break scripts' (not bloody likely), and  
> >that we should consider a dedicated host if we want to change it. I've  
> >administered a PHP installation before and changing the upload limit will  
> >not break scripts. Most likely the admins are using default Red Hat  
> >installs and rpms and have no idea how to change it. 
> > 
> >Do you want to host with someone like that? 
> > 
> >On Monday, November 6, 2000, at 09:34 AM, Tom Webb wrote: 
> > 
> > > We use CIHOST at www.cihost.com.  They have the best prices and best  
> > service. 
> > > Tom Webb 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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