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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> Director of Technology
> The Hewitt School
> 45 East 75th St
> New York, NY 10021
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> F. (212) 639-9366
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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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