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Re: [PLUG] Web Hosting, Again
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Well, hell, I thought I was sending it off list. Pardon me while I go
pry my head out of my ass.
Sorry all..
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 18:26, Chris Mann wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I'm sending this off list, as I don't want to appear to be bashing a
> decent company, despite having a few issues with them.
>
> I was using them for about 12 months a couple of years ago. They're
> uptime isn't the greatest, but it was something I was prepared to deal
> with.
>
> The meat of my issue came down to this:
>
> I had some original recordings (music) that I had hosted on my website
> (which was legal at the time according to their TOS). But this was at
> the height of the RIAA throwing about their muscle and using the DCMA to
> enforce it. Long story short, Drak scanned my directory and noticed I
> had MP3's there, and cancelled my account with no warning to me at all.
>
> I inquired to them as to why, and got the reason. I couldn't really
> blame them, as they had to look out for the whole of their company. I
> explained to them that I was the creator of the music and that I held
> the license to it, not the RIAA. No success. So I asked for my files
> back. At this time, they were *supposed* to be backing up files daily or
> weekly (can't remember which). By the time I had gotten to this point,
> about 7 days had past, and they informed me that they backup had been
> over written and there was nothing they could do about it.
>
> Long story short, they're not to bad. I've known some friends who've had
> uptime/email issues with them, but I can't say I had any out standing
> issues myself, other than what I explained above. I still recommend them
> on occassion as a "Do you want fries with that?" hosting company to
> friends just getting started etc. I just find I get more bang for my
> buck with PHPwebhosting.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:58, Paul wrote:
> > Chris Mann wrote:
> >
> > >I had used drak.net in the past, but have had issues with them, we went
> > >our seperate ways. Not a bad choice over all tho.
> > >
> > >Currently, I use www.phpwebhosting.com.
> > >
> > >IIRC they give you all you're asking, plus a few extras for 9.95 a
> > >month. Uptime is very good with them, or at least I've never noticed any
> > >downtime at all.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > phpwebhosting lacks point-and-click backup and they do not offer a good
> > mailing list package. Their uptime seems to be almost 100% as far as I
> > have noticed.
> >
> > Please, share your Draknet experience with me as they are under serious
> > consideration.
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Chis Mann, SAGE
Systems Administrator
Stonebridge Bank
610.235.1515
cmann (at) stonebridgebank.com
http://www.stonebridgebank.com
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