I’m so tired of dealing with unreliable hosting that I decided to consolidate a bunch of sites onto two hosts - I don’t want all my eggs in the exact same basket, so that something will always be up and earning.  This was a fairly simple process, and it would have been pretty quick had [...]

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Did the title make you think I’d found some?  Oh, hell no.  Not at any price.  It’s just a fantasy I like to drool over from time to time.
Hey, here’s a sort of philosophical Zen question in the form of a math story problem: when you’re in the middle of working on your site, and [...]

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I posted a few days ago that one of my webhosts, Infexion.net, had gone down without explanation or communication. This wasn’t the first time, so I found other hosting and canceled the account.
Recently, I received some very interesting information about the guy who runs Infexion.net, Seth Baumgartner. Seth is a 16 year old [...]

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What’s the deal with hosts that suddenly disappear at the end of June - end of the fiscal year?
Last year, I had several sites go down in early July, so I had to rush and find new hosts - which was difficult because apparently all the hosts were busy taking the vacation I should have [...]

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…whatever they’re calling themselves these days.
I tried to cancel my account today, and the email address you’re supposed to use (sales@jlhost.com) is full, so my email came back undeliverable. It’s a little disturbing when a host makes it difficult/impossible to cancel your account in the way they suggest, isn’t it?
So I went to their [...]

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One of my sites has been hosted with JLHosts.com or JLhost.com since October 2005, and I was very happy with them. Never more than maybe 5 minutes of downtime, quick response to inquiries, everything good.
My site went down a few days ago, and stayed down. It’s on day 3, currently. When I first [...]

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I signed up a site on Productive Hosting a few months ago. The company changed to SupremeNetworks soon thereafter. That raised a bit of a flag, but everything seemed fine. Now this guy has, apparently taken off and simply deleted everyone’s sites from the server.
I don’t claim to know what happened, but there’s [...]

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If you’re looking for really cheap hosting to get started, but you want something reliable with decent support, I have a story to tell you. I’ve been building new affiliate marketing sites lately, and moving a couple of my other sites around to new hosts. I’m not one of those people who insists [...]

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Ever wondered how hosts go about honoring their uptime guarantees? I mean, if they fall below that 99.9% (or whatever) threshhold, what exactly happens?
I personally didn’t find out until recently, because in getting started, I was using cheaper hosts who didn’t really offer guarantees, or honor the ones they did offer. But now [...]

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I wrote a couple of days ago about a series of hosting issues I had seen recently, on my own sites or other people’s. This is a follow-up to that post.
In the other post, I stated:
I’ve just learned that another of my hosts has some sort of screwy MySql configuration, so that when you [...]

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