I hate our host.

[achtungbaby]

Someday we'll move from ehostpros.com, but for now, they're all that yellowworld.org can afford:(

[amietron]

how much is alternative hosting?? note that we DO have more than 100 members and more than 10 of them are dedicated. don't you remember OHt and i said we'd both be willing to pitch pennies? it's almost my birthday. i have money to share.

[IKPakI]

I could pitch some money too. I am willing to donate around 50-100 bucks...but, its going to be in cash.

[achtungbaby]

[quote:3989b2f7db="amietron"]how much is alternative hosting?? note that we DO have more than 100 members and more than 10 of them are dedicated. don't you remember OHt and i said we'd both be willing to pitch pennies? it's almost my birthday. i have money to share.[/quote:3989b2f7db]

Right now I'm paying about $60/year, a very good deal considering the amount of space, features, etc. I'd say a solid host would probably run around $150/year, but let me get back to you on that.

If anyone has any good hosts to refer, please post them here...!

[amietron]

SEE, told ya.
dedicated
members
of y_w
will come
through.

[achtungbaby]

3 friggen hours!! 3 friggen hours the website was down. Christ!

I just finished chatting with the folks over at Apollo Hosting (http://apollohosting.com). Check out their website, let me know what you guys think. I was immediately impressed that they had 24/7 chat support (which is actually hard to find amongst hosts, and I was just browsing through their site).

[NotAsian]

very expensive!

I doubt you'll ever need 24/7 chat support, unless you're a [i:ea9e4208f9]complete[/i:ea9e4208f9] idiot.

Hosts like http://www.phpwebhosting.com/ and http://trivaya.com/ are much better value :)

[achtungbaby]

[quote:2c671d867e="NotAsian"]very expensive![/quote:2c671d867e]

What are you talking about? It's $15/month for 200mbs of space. The plans you listed are for like 20 megs!

[quote:2c671d867e="NotAsian"]I doubt you'll ever need 24/7 chat support, unless you're a [i:2c671d867e]complete[/i:2c671d867e] idiot.[/quote:2c671d867e]

[i:2c671d867e]Do not underestimate me.[/i:2c671d867e]

If I wanted to stick with an okay host that was fairly cheap, I'd stick with the one I have. They're actually not too bad -- they just can't guarantee uptime and getting a hold of them takes about a day. Trivaya actually uses the same helpdesk software that ehost does (PerlDesk) and I *hate* it!

Another great thing about Apollo is that it has its own bulletin board, which a lot of the other hosts don't have the balls to put up.

[NotAsian]

Well ok so I have no experience of Trivaya, but last time I looked phpwebhosting offered you 125MB of space.

Hosts that have rubbish uptime are the worst ones there are. I have a phpwebhosting account and I'm very happy with it. I have never needed any support from them - the only time I became even slightly confused about them is when I wanted to transfer a domain name to use their DNS servers, and that was mostly my registrar's fault.

[achtungbaby]

So the uptime is pretty good with your host?

[inkpainter]

[quote:f0205fcabf="achtungbaby"]So the uptime is pretty good with your host?[/quote:f0205fcabf]
www.adgrafix.com
99.9% uptime, cost a little more, but their WebsiteManager software is great. I used them when I was developing sites in the late 90's. They're still around and going strong since they are also www.hosting.com which recently bought Virtualis Systems in the L.A. area.

...sorry u had a rough day achtungbaby...your still the best master, super, brilliant, talented, dedicated,....lovable...bestest forum admin/host in the whole wide yellowworld.xoxo :wink:

[achtungbaby]

[quote:b4c1bd01df="inkpainter"]I used them when I was developing sites in the late 90's.[/quote:b4c1bd01df]

Awesome! Thanks for the tip...although I think their packages are a wee bit outta my budget...

[quote:b4c1bd01df="inkpainter"]...sorry u had a rough day achtungbaby...your still the best master, super, brilliant, talented, dedicated,....lovable...bestest forum admin/host in the whole wide yellowworld.xoxo :wink:[/quote:b4c1bd01df]

Thanks!!

(your check is in the mail):P

[sxyOptiKali]

http://www.ehostsource.com/

price seems ok

[achtungbaby]

Thanks for the tip. How'd you find out about them? Have you heard anything about em?

[sxyOptiKali]

i just searched for cheap hosting lol

[sxyOptiKali]

i just searched for cheap hosting lol

[deez nuts]

Yeah, I'm down achtung. you doing a good thing for the asian community here.

[kasia]

i think you should say 'invest' rather than 'donate'.

yellowworld is going to make us rich someday.

keep posting! :twisted:

[jimbo78]

if u go on ebay they have many different web hosting plans for cheap. i mean real cheap. i'm only payin like $9 a year for mine and they give me madd space and bandwith and theya re up 99% of the time. of course these are much smaller companies but if ur willin to try then do it.

james

[achtungbaby]

That's the thing, I'm only paying $5 a month (did you say $9 a *year*...??) for the current plan but our host sucks. Always down.

Oh yeah, I'm sure you'll all be happy to hear that yestereday we went over our bandwidth limit for this month. Our bandwidth "cycle" ends on 7/9 and then we start fresh.

[Arex]

[quote:0c65d9670f="kasia"]i think you should say 'invest' rather than 'donate'.

yellowworld is going to make us rich someday.

keep posting! :twisted:[/quote:0c65d9670f]

"Us" meaning who? You and AB? If you want me to "invest," I'm down with that but I'll expect some sort of "return" on my "investment" since "we're" going to be rich.=) On the other hand, I'm just as willing to donate a little bit of cash...


Alex

[achtungbaby]

[quote:8046868269="Arex"]

If you want me to "invest," I'm down with that but I'll expect some sort of "return" on my "investment" since "we're" going to be rich.=) On the other hand, I'm just as willing to donate a little bit of cash...
[/quote:8046868269]

Lemme just state for the record that when I started this little thang, it was never in the hope of making money, since websites just don't make jack anyway...

That said...please show yo love!:)

[deez nuts]

So uh yeah how do we show our love?

Name, addy blah blah
Cash, Check money order, paypal? blah blah

[achtungbaby]

Whoops, my bad. Go to the main page and on the lower left you'll see a block titled "Support"...click on the Paypal .gif and then promptly wire every penny you have. :twisted:

[b0ym0nkey]

lmao i'll "donate" :P i think i've saved up around 30 pennies!

[achtungbaby]

Welcome back everyone. The site was down for over three hours. Woo-hoo! Gotta love the uptime from our current host.

[achtungbaby]

I got this email for our host today:

[quote:106b014f6e]...I know that the server you are on right now is having lots of downtime, its only this server , believe me I know how you feel. This is what I will do for you, I will add additional 1 gig transfer for no charge atall. We are examining the server this week for hardware. The reason we are prolonging this is because, testing hardware means downtime, and we are trying to see if there is any software issue first.

We do have 100% uptime on all server except server 2 :((
After 2 weeks we will have round the clock 24/7 live chat support. I appreciate your patience. You bandwidth is increased to 1 gig as of today and please desrgard my previous email and the server notices, which are automated and cannot be disabled.

If you require any additional information or we can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact us at: http://support.ehostpros.com[/quote:106b014f6e]

[achtungbaby]

Oh, yippee, we're back online after being down for over 8 hours. I was informed by our host that they're doing all sorts of restoring and modifications to our server -- nice of them to let me know beforehand!

[achtungbaby]

I just posted a request over at webhostingtalk.com (http://www.webhostingtalk.com) -- that place is THE SHIT for finding a good deal on new hosts. Screw any of other way of finding a good host that you've heard of -- practically all of the site admins for these hosts are members and posting over at that forum. You can check out the thread of my post here (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60700).