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Mac Beach
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06-12-2004 18:10
If you want to get the downsides on a few of the many many hosting companies out there check out: http://yourhostsucks.com/Reading through the complaints that many people have had with their own hosting companies might also give you some idea of what to look out for. I was quite happy with one of the companies mentioned there for about a year and then they self destructed, taking a lot of hard work with it. Don't count on inexpensive hosting companies to back your site up (even if they claim they do). Here is a tip I picked up form my bad experience: Look for some mention of WHO owns and operates the hosting company. If the "ABOUT US" section is missing, or vague: "We can't disclose our datacenter location for security reasons" then I'd look elsewhere. Of course there is nothing wrong with a knowledgeable admin buying a co-located server and parselling it out at a discount price. I just think the end-user is entitled to know that this is what is going on. |
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Lordfly Digeridoo
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Join date: 21 Jul 2003
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06-12-2004 18:43
Well, like I said, I just need a provider that's good at sending files at a decent clip (200k/sec or more) for SL's new streaming services. My web page right now is really simple... a news column, my list of songs, and my email address.  LF
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06-12-2004 19:00
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
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06-12-2004 21:13
From: someone Originally posted by Lordfly Digeridoo
What're the download speeds like at ipowerweb or powweb?
That's what I'd like to know too. 
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!
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Azrazael Maracas
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Join date: 27 Jan 2004
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06-12-2004 21:18
my company hosts....ok....spam lol
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
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06-14-2004 20:44
What did you pick LF? ipowerweb has a few posts in the forum at "yourhostsucks" (although it seems most are in the "might not suck" section), but powweb isn't mentioned there. It could just be because the former is a bigger host, obviously. And message board complaint posts are probably a bad and very unscientific way of judging these companies, so...it's not telling us much. Fact is, I'm sure you can find a few people who have had bad experiences with any web host, especially the larger ones just because of sheer numbers. I'm surprised they don't have a rating or voting system in place there, it would tell us more...maybe.
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!
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Lordfly Digeridoo
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Join date: 21 Jul 2003
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06-16-2004 10:33
I think I'm going to go with ipowerweb.
Thanks guys!
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