Re: pgHoster.com woes and looking for a new host

for the second time this week, i'll plug my host! (i hope he sees all these)

after three years, i have nothing but good to say about the folks at
www.coastlandtech.com. practically zero downtime, postgres and mysql, no
setup fees, and $35 per year. that's no typo, $35 per year.

calvin.




Lynna Landstreet wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone else here host their sites with pgHoster.com? More to the point,
> does anyone know what's happened to them?
>
> We switched our site to them a couple of months ago and while everything was
> fine for the first month, during the last few weeks it all went straight to
> hell. I'll spare you the story, but the current state of things is that our
> site's been down for a week, support has been nonexistent, e-mails to the
> company bounce, and as of today *their* site is down. And lucky us, we
> prepaid for a year. :-(
>
> This is the third web host we've been through. At the first, their versions
> of PHP and PostgreSQL were way out of date and getting tech support of any
> kind was like pulling teeth. The second claimed they supported PostreSQL
> while courting the gallery and then once we'd signed up said oops, sorry, we
> actually only support MySQL. And now the third appears to have disappeared.
>
> Obviously we need a new host, but at this point, given our past experiences,
> I'm a little gunshy. Does anyone know of a host that supports PostgreSQL
> *and* is actually stable, reliable, and has good, or at least existent, tech
> support? And is affordable enough for a non-profit art gallery with a
> relatively small site and smaller budget to handle?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lynna
>