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Author: Eric Cope
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Web Hosting
Liquidweb has the best support I've ever experienced. Phones are answered
in Lansing Michigan. Chat and email are very helpful too.
If you want unmanaged, DigitalOcean is the best priced. $5/month gets you a
512MB VPS...

Eric


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Jason Poulter <> wrote:

> Digitalocean.com if want to manage your own box
>
> On February 18, 2014 3:32:44 AM MST, Nathan England <
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I have been with DreamHost for many years and have enjoyed their awesome
>> control panel (I hate cpanel), their fast response to issues, and the
>> help they've given me over the years with dumb questions. I have several
>>
>> dozen sites hosted with them on a shared hosting plan. None of them are
>> money making sites, nonetheless, it is embaressing when someone tries to
>> get to a site and it is dog slow.
>>
>> It seems now every week I have to submit a support ticket for them to
>>
>> "restart my apache service" so my sites respond quickly again. Though,
>> this only lasts a short time and they are slow again.
>>
>> I guess it is time that I look elsewhere for hosting support. I don't
>>
>> want to spend the money on a VPS because my basic needs are met with a
>> shared account, and no doubt I get better resources than a 300MB ram VPS
>> would provide, unless the shared server is over-loaded, and VPS's
>> larger
>> than 300MB of ram are more than I am willing to spend.
>>
>> I despise GoDaddy because of their advertising practices (I actually
>> respect women and don't care to treat them all like a piece of meat or
>>
>> porn stars). Several friends have recently dumped HostGator because
>> their shared accounts are too slow.
>>
>> Any recommendations?
>>
>> P.S. A commercial account with my ISP and my server would be ideal for
>> all of my needs, but being up here in the sticks my ISP wants an arm and
>>
>> a leg to provide more than 3MB/768K speeds, which are not realistic.
>>
>> Thanks!
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