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waterjug

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Thinking of going with the 5/month shared hosting plan here. I assume I can still edit the css/html/etc/ on my own even if it's shared hosting? I haven't done any web design in about 7 years, and when I did I don't recall shared hosting even existing so I know next to nothing about it. I just need it for a standard web-page advertising my services, so I don't need anything extravagant.
 
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ASO is good. I left them a couple years ago because I needed more space, but they had top notch service and very good uptime.
 
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dougp

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Why not look into using Vivi's hosting co, MadGenius? He gives discounts to members of AT.
 
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waterjug

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wow with the 30% off from vivi I can go up a few levels extra and pay the same price as a beginner package from ASO
 
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RossMAN said:
Remember to look at the overall package, not just cost.
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Vivi beats OSA in both storage space and bandwidth. Not to knock OSA, I'm sure they're a great host, but Vivi takes care of AT members pretty well.
 
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waterjug

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dougp said:
Vivi beats OSA in both storage space and bandwidth. Not to knock OSA, I'm sure they're a great host, but Vivi takes care of AT members pretty well.
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yeah the storage and bandwidth is superior, with the 30% discount it's actually as cheap as a couple tiers down from OSA. I heard great things about OSA; I'll have to go back and research Vivi's now and see how it matches up
 
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waterjug said:
yeah the storage and bandwidth is superior, with the 30% discount it's actually as cheap as a couple tiers down from OSA. I heard great things about OSA; I'll have to go back and research Vivi's now and see how it matches up
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Research is a good idea. Vivi runs a solid web host, he's active on WHT/AT and a respected member of the community.
 
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waterjug

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nm, canceled account. That was the worst experience I've had with a hosting company ever. Should've just gone with ASO
 
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waterjug said:
all signed up, thanks a lot for pointing this out, would've never noticed if not for you
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waterjug said:
nm, canceled account. That was the worst experience I've had with a hosting company ever. Should've just gone with ASO
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Have you sent a PM to Vivi with your problems/concerns?

Like I said research, research, research and cost shouldn't be your only concern.

There are several established, reputable and reliable web hosts for around $5/mo. Best of luck, it sounds like you may need it.
 
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waterjug

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RossMAN said:
Have you sent a PM to Vivi with your problems/concerns?

Like I said research, research, research and cost shouldn't be your only concern.

There are several established, reputable and reliable web hosts for around $5/mo. Best of luck, it sounds like you may need it.
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I'm trying to set up a web disk account, should take 30 seconds. I'm using the login details given to me by them. If I enter them, it locks me out of my account completely, not just the web disk portion. It's happened 8 times now. I contacted customer service to unlock it each time, and they don't seem to understand what page I'm looking at, or at least they don't seem to be able to help.
 
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waterjug said:
I'm trying to set up a web disk account, should take 30 seconds. I'm using the login details given to me by them. If I enter them, it locks me out of my account completely, not just the web disk portion. It's happened 8 times now. I contacted customer service to unlock it each time, and they don't seem to understand what page I'm looking at, or at least they don't seem to be able to help.
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Hi Waterjug!

To be fair, it took me less then 2 minutes to do this logged in as you. If you cannot get it, I will just send you the VBS that it auto generated for me and worked. By the way, you've only been talking to me via support.
 
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waterjug

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I assumed it was;

like I said I can create web disk accounts for other directories, but the root directory for me is the one I need. I follow the same steps for that one as I do for creating the others, and it locks me out every time. I don't understand where the auto-generated username for the root directory came from either.
 
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