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robbyp

1199 posts

Uber Geek

#329910 13-May-2010 19:37

bp1000: My site and email are still down. Guess I'm on the last of the 6 servers

Amazed at how many people appear to use them.

bealarmed

2 posts

Wannabe Geek

#329913 13-May-2010 19:54

Yep but not for long

Especially after doing the resersh on the owner

robbyp

1199 posts

Uber Geek

#329917 13-May-2010 20:20

bealarmed: Yep but not for long

Especially after doing the resersh on the owner

These are the Fair Go stories . Not sure if the videos still work.

http://tvnz.co.nz/fair-go/fair-go-aotea-web-rant-2516659

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/497100/1634774 scroll down to the F Off section.

Neen

2 posts

Wannabe Geek

#329944 13-May-2010 22:30

Finally! I have my last three web sites...Now I can migrate them to somewhere that is a much warmer, happier place, with sunshine, and little bunnies.

Yes the videos worked. Thanks for the links.

I would like to note the during this entire mess, www.islands.co.nz was actually UP....Do we not use our own company Mr Clarke? I bl&&^$y wonder why?

robbyp

1199 posts

Uber Geek

#329953 13-May-2010 22:57

Neen: Finally! I have my last three web sites...Now I can migrate them to somewhere that is a much warmer, happier place, with sunshine, and little bunnies.

Yes the videos worked. Thanks for the links.

I would like to note the during this entire mess, www.islands.co.nz was actually UP....Do we not use our own company Mr Clarke? I bl&&^$y wonder why?

It is actually not a bad thing to host their own website somewhere else, such as in another datacentre, incase they have problems. At least in that case they still be contacted and they can post announcements on their website.

I have tried the islands website and it looks to be down. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/islands.co.nz

It's not just you! http://islandsdotcodotnz looks down from here.

Check another site?

MurrayC

79 posts

Master Geek

#330013 14-May-2010 08:56

Well I've shifted my website/email accounts to www.superhost.co.nz (recommended by rob) after I got the UDAI from Islands. I was back on line in minutes.

Donquixote2u

4 posts

Wannabe Geek

#330195 14-May-2010 17:31

thanks for those Fair Go links, robbyp ..

.. Mr Clarke does seem to be a bit of an a...hole!

pity, because the service WAS very competitive - In fact I'm still reluctant to shift, given that I know there can be hidden fish-hooks in shifting hosts

e.g. my previous provider, without warning us, suddenly started preventing php jobs from fetching external web pages! all in the name of "security"

I notice that superhost does cost extra ($300+ p.a.) for NZ-based servers, whereas domains4less cost less than $100/year to do so.

I would be interested in other's findings/experiences etc

Sharesies

Trade NZ and US shares and funds with Sharesies (affiliate link).

icecold

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#330196 14-May-2010 17:40

I have signed up as a reseller with Hostgator and shifted everything there. I had 2 sites with webhostingnz and another 2 with Freeparking.

So far no problems, I can chat online and via phone any time with their support people.

RedJungle

Phil Gale
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Subscriber

#330205 14-May-2010 18:31

Webdrive have impeccable service levels for those of you looking for a new host. I thoroughly recommend them.

tepuu

16 posts

Geek

#330219 14-May-2010 20:27

Ive been with domains4less for a while now as well as webhostings,cpanel on domains4less isn't as good but at $5 a month for 200mb I'm working through the short commings I run the same site (two domain names) one .com the other .co.nz on both as a way to back up total cost 8.95 mth with more market share

Donquixote2u

4 posts

Wannabe Geek

#330328 15-May-2010 10:47

tepuu: Ive been with domains4less for a while now as well as webhostings,cpanel on domains4less isn't as good but at $5 a month for 200mb I'm working through the short commings I run the same site (two domain names) one .com the other .co.nz on both as a way to back up total cost 8.95 mth with more market share

Yes, after spending an evening looking at the current offerings (much more choice than a couple of years ago) one of the best regarded options seemed to be openhost;

then I discovered that domains4less = openhost = webdrive (which Redjungle recommends) so that is definitely looking like a good alternative;

My cost would go from $53/yr to approx. $94, but disk space goes from 50mb to 200mb, which is a good thing since my Joomla cms alone takes up over 30mb, (yeah I know modx is much leaner but Joomla is a much more rounded product for club use)

SO I think I'll move at least one of my two sites and see how it goes!

robbyp

1199 posts

Uber Geek

#330533 15-May-2010 22:59

Donquixote2u: thanks for those Fair Go links, robbyp ..

.. Mr Clarke does seem to be a bit of an a...hole!

pity, because the service WAS very competitive - In fact I'm still reluctant to shift, given that I know there can be hidden fish-hooks in shifting hosts

e.g. my previous provider, without warning us, suddenly started preventing php jobs from fetching external web pages! all in the name of "security"

I notice that superhost does cost extra ($300+ p.a.) for NZ-based servers, whereas domains4less cost less than $100/year to do so.

I would be interested in other's findings/experiences etc

You're comparing unmetered hosting on a hosting cluster, versus 200MBdiskspace/2GB traffic hosting on what looks to be a single server hosting, so not really a fair comparison. A hosting cluster is where the different hosting components such as email, databases are hosted on seperate servers, where single server hosting, all services are on a single server. The benefit of cluster hosting is that if one server goes down, it doesn't knock out all services, unlike with a single server system.

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