Web Hosting: which of these plans would you get?

[BlueWeasel]

Both are RossMAN approved:

The Plan @ AddAction
or
SolidInternet.com

FYI, I am just looking for a simple, web hosting service.

I did a search for web hosting posts and both the sites are recommeded. The AA plan has a $10 setup fee, and is $7/month after 6 months. The SolidInternet plan is $30/year, but doesn't have as much space or features as the AA plan.

Just based on what I have read, I am leaning toward the AA plan.

Your thoughts?

 

[isekii]

I think aa would be a better bet.
I know a few that use AA and they apparently have awesome support as well

 

[KenGr]

You should probably base on who has the best support. Unless you really have an active site, both have lots of space and bandwidth. Keep in mind that a lot of providers sell more space and bancwidth than they can support, knowing most users won't use it. That's why I question low cost providers and the lower cost one is less than anyone can truly supply that much space for.

The biggest red flag I see in the low cost one is having only two MySQL databases. If you get into any database applications you will probably want more to play with. The AA is similar in price and features to my account with Hostworkz.com.

 

[RossMAN]

If cost isn't a concern I would go with AddAction.net

SolidInternet.com is another great choice but lacks some basic features (CGI) which AddAction supports.

Plus with AddAction.net's $9.95 for 6 months intro offer, if you're not satisfied close your account and go elsewhere. No strings attached.

 

[BillGates]

I'd go with AddAction only because I happen to currently be with them (Thanks Ross!) and have been extremely happy with them! Yesterday I had a chance to use their support (on a Sunday, big holiday weekend) and had a reply to both of my queries at separate times of the day within an hour for each. That's excellent support!

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: BillGates
I'd go with AddAction only because I happen to currently be with them (Thanks Ross!) and have been extremely happy with them! Yesterday I had a chance to use their support (on a Sunday, big holiday weekend) and had a reply to both of my queries at separate times of the day within an hour for each. That's excellent support!

I forgot to mention their support.

My AddAction website has gone down a few times and it was VERY frustrating. So even though I wrote up nasty support tickets, they replied with friendly replies usually within ah hour. It turns out another user on my server was using bad scripts which corrupted the database, I was just glad that it wasn't AddAction that was going down everytime.

 

[helloedchen]

i'd recommend addaction, haven't heard one bad thing about them yet really

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: GideonX
i'd recommend addaction, haven't heard one bad thing about them yet really

No company is perfect including web hosts.

I have heard of one complaint from wyvrn who recently closed their account.

Other than that, nothing but high praise for AddAction.net

 

[rudeguy]

I am using AA right now...no problems at all...thanks for the tip on them Rossman!

 

[jonmullen]

from what I hear AA is a very reliable host.

 

[HyTekJosh]

If you are looking for a wider scope, see my sig

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: BillGates
I'd go with AddAction only because I happen to currently be with them (Thanks Ross!) and have been extremely happy with them! Yesterday I had a chance to use their support (on a Sunday, big holiday weekend) and had a reply to both of my queries at separate times of the day within an hour for each. That's excellent support!

I forgot to mention their support.

My AddAction website has gone down a few times and it was VERY frustrating. So even though I wrote up nasty support tickets, they replied with friendly replies usually within ah hour. It turns out another user on my server was using bad scripts which corrupted the database, I was just glad that it wasn't AddAction that was going down everytime.

I work at a web-hosting company and you don't know how prevalent that is

We have two servers with the exact same configuration. One was up for 59 days (Win2k + IIS and we had to patch it), and another that
needs an iisreset or a reboot every couple days! I love seeing in the logs "dllhost.exe read at some illegal memory space" of course it
never says which dllhost.exe so we can't find out what site is doing it. Bad DB code is the cause for 90% of all web-server stability issues
IMHO.

 

[Mucman]

Ack! I spoke to soon... Right now there is a very poorly coded website using 100% cpu usage. Why do people think
putting queries in a loop is a good idea? Ugh... I think a hosting company is only as good as the customers who are on
the servers! For shared hosting at least...

 

[bobmarley2]

I second doteasy.
35 bucks for life!
Email and basic web hosting.

I really thought it was too good to be true.
What the heck, if it doesn't work I'll get my money back.

Aside from some initial email issues (due to my temporary server), now that I'm off of the temporary server(2 days), it rocks!

Thought I'd mention this since it's nice not having a monthly/yearly bill at all.

Thanks MitzEclipse!

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