Hi guys,
If there are any Australians besides me who host eFiction sites, then here's an affordable, but very reliable (and quick) hosts:
1. Jumba- pay between $30 - $100/year for fantastic space, bandwidth, and reliable service. Speeds are very low to Australian networks, and under 200ms to US networks, AFAIK.
I host my own sites through them, and have done for the past 2 years without any serious hiccups, and very few little ones 🙂
As for American Hosting, I can recommend Hostgator.com as being very good- at least they were a year ago when I was using them...bit more expensive than some hosts, I guess , but very good support at the time I used them, and great speeds 🙂
I'm a crazy cat!
As a fellow Aussie, Hi Kendal,
I found MDwebhosting to be very good. Their basic plan is a tiny bit more expensive than Jumba's top home plan, by about $20 a year, but offers much more in bandwidth and diskspace. I have found their help ticket and online chat to be very good and they have always responded quickly and solved my problems with efficiency. In the two and a half years i have been with them, they have had a very small amount of downtime and we have only had any real hassle once. mdwebhosting
why is nothing ever easy?
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I retract all above goodness statements about MD. They did a major upgrade early January this year and since then there has been nothing but crashed tables, database downtime and just hassle after hassle after hassle. They were so good before the upgrade but since then it has been a disaster. I have moved hosting companies and so far are much happier now.
why is nothing ever easy?
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I'm with MD, after your initial recommendation, using their Australian server. I've had reliable srvice with minimal down time....So not sure what is going on there with you.
I have been with them 2 and half years and loved it. No downtime, good service, pretty reasonably priced, was happy to stay there indefinitely. Until this year then it all went to hell. It might be that it was just my server but i have had broken efic tables almost daily, broken smf tables, i have had to restore databases over and over, have had downtime almost daily. I have fixed my sites more than browsed them.
I suspect it is jsut a bit of bad luck but i couldnt cope anymore at all so moved. Hopefully you will have better luck than i have had because until now i really believed that they had been a pretty good server. They have also dumped their live chat very recently which really jacked me off.
Hopefully you will continue with their reliable service (i know with hosts sometimes they just get a dud server and ppl on that one have nothing but trouble while ppl on other ones within the same host have perfect times - like i did before the upgrade, then they either moved me or the new hardware was dodgy or smt, but it went from almsot zero downtime to almost zero uptime)
why is nothing ever easy?
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bridges: none mods: challenges, displayword, beta-search
As always, I am very late hopping into that bandwagon but I have a friend in Australia that has a hosting company and I actually have a few sites hosted with them and have found their service to be pretty fantastic!
The company is Web Hosts Australia ( http://www.webhostsaustralia.com.au) and they have a pricing for both Australians and Americans as they also have servers in the States now and not just Melbourne and Brisbane. They offer Linux and Windows hosting and the prices are very manageable - especially with the level of service you are getting.
The server I am on has had a few hiccups over the years I've been with them but those mainly happened during server upgrades and I had answers from their main tech guy within 1 hour of contacting them - and that was on a very busy day for him. Usually within 30 minutes I've heard from them and the matter always gets resolved pretty quickly.
So that's my recommendation. 🙂
Jacynthe
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