Site5 for nearly three years now, and the only thing
that keeps me there is intertia -- they have been bad
enough to have me thinking about switching over for
the last couple years, but just good enough for me to
not bump the process higher on the priority list.
When I first started there, I was impressed by their
level of service. Over time, however, I have seen the
quality of service drop precipitously, to the point
where I don't recommend them as a hosting provider to
anyone, for any reason.
I'm glad to see some other people on this thread
having a different experience.
Cheers,
Bill
--- Vern Ceder <vceder@canterburyschool.org> wrote:
> I also use Site5 (with a reseller account) for
> personal stuff and a some
> SOHO business consulting clients. I would agree that
> it's fine for that
> sort of use, but I would also be reluctant to host
> my main production
> servers there.
>
> Cheers,
> Vern
>
> Arvind Grover wrote:
> > I have been using site5.com for about 2 years, and
> have had very little
> > downtime. That being said, I use their services
> for personal e-mail
> > accounts, some personal blogs, test installations
> of Moodle, Wordpress,
> > Gallery2 applications and lots of Ruby on Rails
> applications. I have
> > been very happy with their uptime, price,
> reliability and their service.
> > They answer e-mails quickly and I have never had a
> problem they couldn't
> > resolve.
> >
> > That being said, I wouldn't use site5's shared
> servers for my school's
> > applications. Mainly because we host some memory
> intensive applications
> > like Moodle. For that we use a Rackspace.com
> subsidiary, Mosso.com. For
> > a $100 a month you get superb platform. Basically,
> they let you create
> > as many web servers as you want. You could have 4
> Microsoft IIS servers
> > with PHP4, 2 Apache servers with PHP4 and 5 Apache
> servers with PHP5.
> > You sort of have to see it to understand it. But
> they have stellar
> > support via e-mail, live chat or *phone* and their
> uptime is stellar.
> >
> > Happy to talk about either.
> >
> > arvind
> >
> >
>
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> > arvind s grover
> > Director of Technology
> > The Hewitt School
> > 45 East 75th St
> > New York, NY 10021
> > T. (212) 994-2613
> > F. (212) 639-9366
> > E. agrover@hewittschool.org
> > W. www.hewittschool.org
> >
>
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A forum for independent school educators
> > [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Justin Dover
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:09 AM
> > To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Looking for input on Web hosts
> >
> > I second what Bill said about site5.com. Great
> hosting.
> >
> > Justin Dover
> > Harpeth Hall School
> > 615-346-0082
> >
> > A forum for independent school educators
> <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on
> > Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 7:29 AM -0600 wrote:
> >> Norman,
> >>
> >> Our school website is outsourced, but on the
> recommendation of Arvind
> >> Grover at Hewitt in NYC a couple of years back, I
> switched my personal
> >> hosting to Site5 and have been very happy with
> them. They have a
> > holiday
> >> rebate special right now on their $7.50/month
> shared hosting plan that
> >> includes a ton of storage and bandwidth and
> unlimited e-mails, with a
> >> 99.9% uptime guarantee.
> >>
> >> http://www.site5.com/hosting/
> >>
> >> Again, I've only used this for hosting sites that
> aren't generally
> >> mission-critical for an organization, but overall
> I've been quite happy
> >> with them. Disclaimer: While Site5 offers a
> referral program, I'm not a
> >> part of it and am only recommending them because
> I've had a good
> >> experience with them.
> >>
> >> Good luck,
> >> Bill
> >
> >
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> --
> This time for sure!
> -Bullwinkle J. Moose
> -----------------------------
> Vern Ceder, Director of Technology
> Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN
> 46804
> vceder@canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX:
> 260-436-5137
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