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Originally posted by theWatsonian
The problem with hosts that come out of the woodwork when Prohosters has downtime is that they simply cannot offer what we are getting. I think the virtual accounts attract those of us running a score of free and avs sites, for the most part, and do very little tgp work (or keep our galleries on free hosts like I do).
These other hosts don't understand that we can make decent sales off a few thousands surfers a month but we need gobs of space, domains, static IP addresses, email accounts for each domain and reasonable prices for bandwidth overages.
Hosts that want to get my attention need to offer the following for less than 15 bucks per month:
* up to 50 static IPs right away, no monthly charge for additional IPs
* 500MB disk space
* 10 pop email accounts and a catchall for anything sent to other domains
* FTP 24/7, naturally
* Telnet, cgi, php, optional mysql
* Online realtime stats
And, most importantly, acting like a dick when a host has problems won't make me a customer.
Now, I haven't seen any other hosts that can meet these requirements. It's probably crazy to try. Who knows...
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I couldn't say it better myself.
I don't mind paying $1 or so an IP. I don't mind paying even a few dollars for bandwidth, but other hosts just don't offer what they do - find someone else that offers 100 unique IPs for free, FREE cusomt name servers, SQL, SSI on html pages, and fast 24 hour support.
Unfortunately - they are down too often. Here is the closest match I have found for what I thik is reasonable. greenguy uses them:
https://secure130.allwebsites.com/de...ableprices.php
The say on the front page you can get extra IPs for $1.00 a month, but when I try to place an order it says $5.00 and they MUST BE PLACED AT THE TIME YOU ORDER. What is the deal with that? Anyway, I am starting to lose track of the hosts I am going through. I see the spam on here all the time, but almost no one addresses the specifics.
I was told by another host (that is mentioned on here all the time) that I could have all the unique IPS I wanted. I added a dozen or so sites with them and told a friend about them He said they told him he couldn't have unique IPs. I looked at the website and it had been changed - no more unique IPs - and worse yet - found that most of my sites were not on unique IPS - even though I was promised the would be. The then became so poor at figuring every thing out - that he had to drop them. I still have some sites there - as the have good uptime and good prices.