[plug] [OT] Decent web hosts

[Patrick Coleman]

On 4/9/06, Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:21, Patrick Coleman wrote:
> > On 4/3/06, simon <simon at chrome64.org> wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Ive been through the cheap american hosts with what appear to be 56k modem
> > > connections - Im over them.
> > >
> > > Ive been through the local hosts who charge like wounded bulls for excess
> > > bandwidth and have questionable bandwidth accounting - Im over them.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a decent host who will charge a fair price for bandwidth
> > > (ie none of this stupid excess bandwidth charges), has a nice administration
> > > interface (for DNS etc), wont send me stupid domain renewal notices when my
> > > domain still has 2 years left on it, has a decent setup so I dont have to wait
> > > 5 minutes for my page to render, wont count 304 responses as full GETs, has
> > > ssh access/php/mysql/postgresql offerings and generally wont piss me off?
> >
> > I can't resist plugging my own company here - we do anything from web
> > hosting with a proper linux shell account attached to a full VPS
> > (Xen-based) server. To respond to your problems in order:
> >
> > -Our net connection is ~100Mbps via Arachnet colocation.
>
> Do you mean HostAway?

Yep.

-Patrick