I dont know what exactly you need.

But use the ICQ # in my sig to contact me, i can get you great deals at www.thexxxhost.com

Down for me?

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FTVGirls -

Im contacting you, lets talk before you make any decisions. :glugglug

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A MONSTER big thumbsup for Swiftwill too :) The are a company of true geeks, which is exactly what you want in a host.

Good choice, I havn't had any problem with them at all:thumbsup

I have a feeling even if he goes to another hosting provider he is going to run into the same problems. I think his programs and servers might need to be streamlined and optimized for the load.

:2 cents:

check out http://www.foundrynap.com/

their hosting has been excellent for me :thumbsup

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Jupiter hosting is great choice

also look into http://www.oxeo.com :thumbsup

Scratch my last post. I just re-read you disabled ICQ.

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Well, I have two constantly-PINNED 100 mbits servers with http://www.swiftwill.com and I have had nothing but the absolute fortune to find a host like Dweeks and his crew of keyboard warriors.


You can't go wrong with Swiftwill. I would HIGHLY recommend them and I'm sure you will hear that echo throughout this post.


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What he said.

http://www.swiftwill.com is where it's at. Period.

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I've been with swiftwill.com for about two years now and you won't see me move. dweeks knows his tech stuff, which is what you need when you want to host something big.

I've been with swiftwill.com from the very beginning when they started off, I've seen them grow and now they are handling some of the biggest players out there. It's defenitly a hosting company you would want to consider.

swiftwill.com :thumbsup

ISprime is as good as it gets as far as adult managed hosting, I am pretty sure that's why FTV is NOT moving anywhere.


It's funny that this thread is 4 days old and some competing hosts keep bumping it up every day just to get their 60 seconds of fame :1orglaugh just goes to show how much some people need business

:1orglaugh

:1orglaugh

no webhost is perfect.

but, be smart when choosing a host, because it can really effect your income.

1. your server must put out pages FAST, this means good connectivity, and minimum hops.

2. determine where your surfers are coming from---most webmasters will find that most paying surfers come from USA and Europe.

3. go to http://www.tracert.com/cgi-bin/trace.pl and do some traceroutes on your prospective host from various places in the world---average the times to your area of interest (usually USA and europe if you run paysites).

and if you do all that you will see that webair probably has best performance/price ratio.

that's where my boxes are.

(ISPrime is good also on connectivity test, but priced too high)

seriously some people don't get what it takes to keep something like FTV up... shitty little hosting companies spamming their crap.

I'm baffled that you can't resolve things with Isprime, they're top-notch from what I know. If you're really keen on moving NatNet Jupiter or Ch00pa are your best choices. All top-notch

forget the rest :glugglug

I am not Selling for WebHostPlus but you can try our sales guys at
ICQ: 244559745 (Carl)

What makes a good host?

Everyone always asks what makes a good host? Is it the SLA (Standard Level Agreement) that is the most important? Is it the ability to answer my trouble tickets within minutes/hours/days? Network and Disaster recovery issues? How important is it to have multiple providers? Is the price important? Why would you want to have a hosting company that is local to your place of business? All these questions have to be evaluated before you make the decision to put your web presence into someone else?s hands.

SLA:
Standard Level Agreement is only valuable when it is written correctly. You have to realize that most (90%) of hosting companies out there are buying there bandwidth from one of the biggest providers like (Sprint, MCI, Cogent, MFN/ AboveNet, Qwest, and XO), and can only offer SLA at the same level as there providers. For instance if Sprint offers 99.5% uptime, then your provider can only do the same unless they will bank on the fact that you will not notice.

As far as creative writing in that contract, you have to be careful and READ it not just glance at it. Most contracts out there will be 20-50 pages long and you will have to spend some time reading it. Some companies will give you 99.99999% or even 100% SLA but will allow themselves 5 hours a month on regular scheduled maintenance as well as 5 hours a month for emergency maintenance. With 720 hours in a regular month (24 X 30) subtracting 10 hours of downtime will give you actual uptime of 98.65%.

Trouble tickets:
How fast is your trouble ticket answered in the middle of the night? What about Saturday night? These are important issues to consider during host evaluation. If your hosting company does not have some sort of monitoring software like (LINK) they will not know if your server just went down at 3:52 AM on Saturday morning. Ask your host to show you a sample of there monitoring software, also ask them about there procedure as far as servers going down in the middle of the night.

No matter who you go with or how much you pay, you WILL experience down time and you WILL have issues. The important thing to consider is how they will handle it, and will they take the blame for issues caused by there mistake? Unfortunately downtime is inevitable and the only question you should ask yourself is ?How fast will it be resolved? And how will you know about your issue??

Most shared trouble tickets should be answered in a matter of hours, a day at most. And most Managed service issues should be answered in a matter of minutes (an hour at most). Once in a while you will have a longer downtime simply because it could be a serious issue that is outside of your hosts? control. This brings us to the next point, Network / Backup / Disaster recovery.

Network / Backup / Disaster recovery:
Ask your host about there network infrastructure and disaster recovery plans. If a host is located in the middle of a large Career Hotel/Hub chances are they are using someone else?s generators and might not have a direct or at least an accurate answer for you.

If your hosting is important to you and you are running a web based business, here are a few things to look for:
? Your host needs to OWN there generator and have regular maintenance on it
? It would be better if your hosting company actually owned there space rather then renting a cage or a rack from someone else
? Your host needs to have AT LEAST 2 redundant bandwidth providers so in case one goes down you have at least another for some time
? Make sure they have some sort of security in there facility and ability to deter vandalism / theft

Price:
The battle over pricing has gotten fiercer over the past few years. With new products and services out every day, hosting company?s are able to lower there overhead and therefore lower your bottom line. With that said lets examine shared hosting industry.

In shared hosting, you as a customer are sharing your web space over a control panel like (H-Sphere, C-Panel, Plesk, etc.) with 100 ? 1,000 other users. Because the hardware costs are relatively low, depending on services you should be able to get good quality hosting between $5 and $15 a month.

Now, here is the single most important question you should ask yourself when considering the price of shared hosting.
How important is my site to me?
If you have a small travel agency and you get 30 visitors a day on your site and 10-20 emails a day, and your business could live without hosting for 1,2 or even 5 hours, you probably would be just fine with a $5 a month plan. You will have some down time, but it would not hurt your business practice. On the other hand if you run a small online store and get 1,000 or even 500 visitors a day on your site and you sell a couple of hundred dollars worth of products per day, then you should strongly evaluate your hosting provider. Maybe you should look at a company that offers better services and therefore charges a bit more.

No matter how old the cliché is, it is still the best one for this question ?You get what you pay for?? Yes it?s true, excellent service does not have to cost a lot, but when it?s too cheap you should at least do more investigative research on the company.

On the managed or dedicated/colocated side of this business price is even more irrelevant to your hosting companies? evaluation. With that said keep in mind that most companies will be more willing to give you a price break if you buy more then 10-15 Megs of committed traffic. When you buy more traffic/bandwidth it gets cheaper and cheaper. If you go out and try to purchase 1-10 Megs of bandwidth you will get prices on both sides of the spectrum. The lowest I have ever seen for 1 Meg of bandwidth committed is $45-$50 and the highest is $400 directly from Verio. Now obviously $400 is outrageous and anyone paying that much (I have a great 1979 Yugo for sale) but beware of cheap bandwidth prices.
Location:
Data center location is NOT only important if you will be colocating your servers. Yes, it is important to the people who will need constant physical access to there servers on daily, weekly or even monthly basis, and you should look for an easily accessible/reachable location from your home or business.

At the same time, it is also very important to have a data center located in the ?Safe Zone?. When we say a safe zone, we mean located in seismic free area. Located close to a major metropolitan area, but at the same time far enough to be safe of any terrorist or natural disasters.

It doesn't get any better than Techie Media. They have the BEST support team that anyone could ever want. And Jim is super! Plus if they can handle the Hun, I am sure they can handle you. :thumbsup

Pradaboy,

From what I understand ISprime found a custom solution for FTV that works like a clock, I had a very interesting conversation with one of the owners.

Bottom line is that he is not looking to move from ISprime, he loves his setup at ISprime.

It's funny how many fools on this board trying to spam their shit think FTV would actualy leave ISprime :1orglaugh

I don't wanna rain on your parade but try to read everything before you make a fool outta yourself. Here are some quotes from FTV throughout this thread:

Now does this sound like someone who has an unique solution which satisfies all their needs? I don't think so. Furthermore I'm not spamming my shit (don't know if u referred to me) I'm merely suggesting the best options.

:2 cents:

your the idiot they do have a custom solution and didnt move anything, as usual ISPrime is the shit and will take care of you most definately. You might want to get the facts straight before pretending to know

magg (foundrynap networks) is also a standup guy :thumbsup

take it easy VD, first of all I have nothing against Isprime coz in my book they're up there with NN and such. I was amazed to hear that something couldn't be solved over there.

Now if you read the entire thread like I did, seeing the words he spoke... does it or does it not look like he's unsatisfied. I dunno what happened in the meantime and I sure hope Isprime sorted things out but should I friggin' smell that everything's cleared up?

Ok I think it's time I clarify few things here:

1. The FTVGirls issue was resolved 5 days ago.

2. ISPrime will continue to provide Managed Hosting Service for FTVCash and
FTVGirls

I am amazed that this thread has been bumped up for 5 days straight, I suppose this is a sign of success that ISPrime had for the past 6 years as well as flawless reputation.

I would like to thank everyone for your support and thank our customers for hosting with The Ultimate Hosting Company.


Cheers and back to work! :thumbsup

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