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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