O.T. Hostgator Registrar

[Michael Butash]

I've looked at going outside gd for years, but most providers do tend to 
nickle and dime everyone to death.  I've wanted to just get dedicated 
hosts, but hard to justify $200/mo per box to *play* with.  Virtual just 
isn't that attractive as at the end of the day, there is resource 
contention going to occur to give me any level of warm fuzzies.  I'd 
probably be the bastard too that kills the box.

Sadly the only reason I stay GD them to now is a) I prepaid for many 
years with many domains, and b) they have my old employee status screwed 
up "stuck in the system" to the effect I get some free services, which 
is kinda dandy by me so far.  Just the general attitude of the company 
and particularly certain people I know far too well there from old times 
make me overdue to migrate off them still, and I have been shopping to 
do so.  Good external solutions are elusive that don't end up costing me 
way more for what I get today from hosting my own servers at home.

I know pretty well infrastructure, and good ones cost more than my house 
budget to build, but finding reasonably affordable (per joe schmoe) 
hosting can still surprisingly be a challenge.  Especially when it 
largely amounts to a playground I make no money off of what so ever. 
Even shopping minecraft hosting providers cost is expensive when it 
comes down to memory usage needed for extensive worlds.  Shared hosting 
is useful if you're just doing websites, but vps/dedicated I'd think 
should be more cost-reasonable by now.  GD doesn't even offer ubuntu 
still as a vps, so that's an easy out.

I too am a bit curious who/what/if others use for shared/dedicated 
hosting plus affordable lab and casual use outside their house.  I have 
most of my lab running off my own servers (dated dell 1850's) at home 
with esx and a lot of instances that I cannot reasonably replace as a 
"cloud" and a non-corporate invested profit center.

-mb


On 10/05/2012 09:19 PM, keith smith wrote:
> Thank you for your feedback Lisa!
>
> I have some domains registered at Godaddy, and some in a WWD (godaddy
> reseller) account.
>
> Godaddy has been reliable. I host my business website there. I also have
> a HostGator reseller account.
>
> Today I wanted to convert one of my business email accounts from pop3 to
> imap. I already have an add on email account so I can store more email.
> I had to pay even more for imap.
>
> I understand why Godaddy does business the way they do, however I'm
> growing tired of them nickle and dimeing me every time I want to do
> something.
>
> I want to make life simple so I'm thinking of consolidating everything
> into my reseller account and moving my domains to HostGator.
>
> Also I'm thinking of configuring access via SSH which I can do with
> HostGator. Much to my surprise HG charges a one time fee of $10 per
> domain to open SSH.
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On *Fri, 10/5/12, Lisa Kachold /<lisakachold at obnosis.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>     Subject: Re: O.T. Hostgator Registrar
>     To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>     Date: Friday, October 5, 2012, 9:03 PM
>
>     Hi!
>
>     On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:55 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com
>     </mc/compose?to=klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         Has anyone used HostGator as a Registrar? I'm considering moving
>         my domains from GoDaddy to HG.
>
>         Thank you for your feedback.
>
>         Keith
>
>         ------------------------
>         Keith Smith
>
>
>     I did some work for some that were hosted there. And in the old days
>     used them for offsite second (not sure if they still provide that
>     service). They were reliable.
>
>     http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-875904.html Others
>     think so too.
>
>     Why are you moving?
>
>     GoDaddy has some really nice services that aren't going to be
>     available everywhere, like URL forwarding, etc.
>
>     Do you like cPanel? (If you are moving your webhosts also)
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