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Ishmayl
07-28-2006, 05:11 PM
Hullo folks,
I run a site called the "Campaign Builders' Guild," (www.thecbg.org). It's a fantasy world-building website that has new members every day, and constant, relatively steady traffic. We've been on dreamhost for the last year, and that was a huge mistake. They are down ALL THE TIME. Literally. They've actually become a satire of themselves, except it's not funny. I just want a good server (linux-based) that can handle steady flow of anywhere from 10-20 people at a time, constantly, and all day long, with the capabilities of growing, but without being ridiculously expensive. Of course, I'm willing to spend a little bit of money, because apparently, going cheap was what got me into this problem in the first place.
Cheers!
-Brandon

JPnyc
07-28-2006, 05:19 PM
Funny you should mention that, when you signed up I clicked that link in your profile, and got "page cannot be displayed". So yeah, you're right, time to move on from them. I'm sure you'll get some good replies here.

Ishmayl
07-28-2006, 05:37 PM
Indeed; this last outage was somewhat of the "last straw." If you look at their status page - status.dreamhost.com (http://status.dreamhost.com) - you see that they are down quite literally at least once a day. This is unacceptable, even for a non-profit, mostly fun site such as mine. I hope to get many recommendations.

Does anyone know about these servers:

XMission Internet (http://www.xmission.com/)
Server Matrix (http://www.servermatrix.com/)
Rackspace Hosting (http://www.rackspace.com/index.php)

ua549
07-28-2006, 07:37 PM
I've contacted a friend that runs a hosting site and asked him to check this thread. They have great bandwidth and have reasonable prices.

*edit* The URL is http://www.sidushost.net.

JPnyc
07-28-2006, 07:44 PM
I don't know those, but I use godaddy.com and haven't had anything to complain about. It's rarely down and cheap, with very good customer service, in my opinion.

Ishmayl
07-28-2006, 08:35 PM
I've contacted a friend that runs a hosting site and asked him to check this thread. They have great bandwidth and have reasonable prices.

*edit* The URL is http://www.sidushost.net.


I would love for your friend to contact me on some specifics if he has time. My main email address is fallen_ishmayl {at} yahoo {dot} com

Thanks!

Carla Schroder
08-01-2006, 04:23 PM
Try http://webhostingtalk.com/. You'll find all kinds of good information on hosting services there.