Re: [SLUG] web hosting

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 01:34:12 EDT


On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:11:13AM -0400, Smitty wrote:

> Steve wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 30 May 2001 20:46, you wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:13:50AM -0700, ter swartz wrote:
> > > > The company that I am working for is looking to switch
> > > > to another web hosting company (from Net Solution and
> > > > Mindspring), due to unreliablity and poor tech
> > > > support. I have been looking at xo.com and ait.com.
> > > > Does anybody have some feedback about either or
> > > > another suggestion? Just need basic domain
> > > > resolution, with some limited video streaming, pop3
> > > > accounts and 30-50megs of anonymous FTP (did I spell
> > > > that right?) & to work!
> > > > Pete
> > >
> > > Don't know about anonymous FTP, but we've had our corporate website
> > > hosted by XO for four years. Never a service problem. You can check with
> > > them on what services they currently offer in what packages. Pricing has
> > > been reasonable as well. We pay $39.95 per month for hosting our
> > > domain/website, dial-up (backup to DSL), and the standard email
> > > accounts, disk space, etc.
> > >
> > > Paul
>
> And they use Solaris 8 on Ultra-Sparc servers. They have a booth at the
> CTS.
> Smitty
>
> >
> > We used to use them too, but as I was having problems getting them to support
> > secure mail pickup I changed to Intnet.net. They have OC-12 (625MB/sec) and
> > has a MUCH faster web service than XO.
> >
> > Comes with user friendly web interface too. Actually it's much more
> > responsive than XO's.
> >
> > Similar pricing...
> >
> > Steve Szmidt
> > ____________
> > Do you ferret?

>From the positioning of Smitty's comments (after the comments about XO
and before the reply about Intnet) it appears he's commenting on XO. But
XO does not have a booth at CTS. Intnet does. Thus, it appears he is
instead commenting on Intnet. Snippage would have helped here.

Paul



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