Maverick — Sun, 05 Nov 2000 17:15:57 +0000

Well H. Kim, you're right about being distrustful of recommendations on many (but not all) directory sites. They are indeed "bought" and can't be trusted. To get the real story, there's no substitute for doing your homework. Visit every directory and forum that you can find and ask for suggestions. Narrow it down from there into 3 or 4 companies that meet your needs and get a lot of recommendations and then start looking specifically for customers of those companies. Ask for honest assessments of both pros and cons. If a company has a bad rep or dissatisfied former customers, you'll find them. If you can't find any, odds are that company is a winner. The important thing is not to trust any one person or site, but to find a consensus of opinion.

Justin S — Sun, 05 Nov 2000 04:20:06 +0000

Yeah, I agree. For example, Chad of DIDS told the members of this forum that they host The Webmaster Forums on a high resource server with only like 12 other "high resource" sites. But then they have another server with small accounts which might have 100 sites. It all depends...

X-treme — Sun, 05 Nov 2000 03:45:02 +0000

The amount of clients on a individual server will vary depending on each clients needs and usage. One server may have 25 high usage clients on it and the next may have 200. I dont really feel this information is secret. I would just ask the host you are interested in and see what the say. If you dont get the answer you are looking for, my advice is to go elsewhere.

H.Kim — Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:22:04 +0000

BTW, what I really would like, beside information about the _true_ uptime, is how many account each host are squezzing into their servers. Most hosting company don´t want to reveal that since they consider that as a business secret but isn´t that a really relevant information for us, the customers?

mjames — Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:06:45 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Maverick
Hostrocket.com has PHP3, but not PHP4. Try futurequest.net, they're a great host.

True... but they will be offering PHP4 very soon, and if I recall, you can get PHP4 installed now if you really need it.

H.Kim — Sat, 04 Nov 2000 17:54:53 +0000

Thanks. I just found out that by myself. Well, what I was looking after was a real virtual server account such as the ones offer by Vservers.com. Any more suggestions? All these webhost directory are more confusing than informative...Their so called "recommendations" really sucks, since it often seeems like that the companies are buying these "recommendations"...

Best regards,

Justin S — Sat, 04 Nov 2000 17:22:21 +0000

I guess you could technically call them "resellers," but according to regular definition you're wrong. They own their own servers, but have them located in a larger NOC. So they "resell" the bandwidth. But they aren't resellers in the sense that they don't have their own servers, and just sell space on another hosting companies computer...

H.Kim — Sat, 04 Nov 2000 07:37:41 +0000

Well, both of them seems to be resellers? Hostrocket.com is hosted by Alabanza and Futurequest.net by Maxaccess. What do I gain to go to resellers instead of real ISP?

I liked the offering by Futurequest but only 75MB for a gold account?

Maverick — Sat, 04 Nov 2000 03:56:16 +0000

Hostrocket.com has PHP3, but not PHP4. Try futurequest.net, they're a great host.

mjames — Sat, 04 Nov 2000 02:32:14 +0000

If you ask me, it's all about HostRocket.com - Fast, reliable, cheap, and plenty of features. Check them out!