[pmwiki-users] web hosting questions / offtopic

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Russ Fink wrote:
> Can someone please point me to a reputable provider that offers the kinds of 
> things PmWiki needs - I'm still tweaking the CSS and would like to have SSH 
> access, and also I'm using some rewrite recipe so I'd like .htaccess as 
> well.  I don't want to resort to virtual servers.  (I read Patrick's thread 
> from 2005 when he went to apollo hosting, but the lower end plans from 
> apollo are somewhat spartan.)

Before I decided to run my own server, I was using A+ Hosting
http://www.aplushosting.com/
 
I found them after being very unhappy with all my previous webhosts.
They have been very reliable, and the tech support people were very
responsive to queries and problems.  And even when they were doing
server migrations, there was hardly any downtime.

The very bottom-level plans there ("Personal" and "Basic I") don't give
PHP access, but "Basic II" does.  It's up to you to decide whether the
price is worth it.

A few questions to ask when looking for a webhost:
- Do they have a "status" page? Do they have a "news" page which talks
  about technical things, rather than marketroid-speak?
- If you email them a question (before you sign up) how long does it
  take for them to respond?
- Beware if they offer "unlimited" anything, because that isn't
  feasible, and will be abused, this making the non-abusers suffer.
- How long have they been in business?

Kathryn Andersen
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