Earthlink to Carrierzone

[Mayayana]

I've had a website hosted on Earthlink for
many years and have been very happy with
them, but recently they seem to have sold
out to carrierzone.com. I'm unable to find
any info. about that company or about the
sale. My website email now goes through some
sort of carrierzone proxy and now works
very slowly.

My questions:

1) Does anyone know what's going on
with Earthlink/Carrierzone?

2) I haven't needed to shop for hosting since 1999.
Do people have recommendations if I decide
to move my hosting? I'm paying $20/month --
not looking for a budget deal. I don't mind paying.
But I want dependable hosting service and full-service,
real SMTP/POP email. (Not partial email service
or a gmail wrapper.)
(I only use PHP and KSearch for extras. No need
for SQL, shopping carts, etc.)

[Jerry Stuckle]

Post by Mayayana
I've had a website hosted on Earthlink for
many years and have been very happy with
them, but recently they seem to have sold
out to carrierzone.com. I'm unable to find
any info. about that company or about the
sale. My website email now goes through some
sort of carrierzone proxy and now works
very slowly.
1) Does anyone know what's going on
with Earthlink/Carrierzone?
2) I haven't needed to shop for hosting since 1999.
Do people have recommendations if I decide
to move my hosting? I'm paying $20/month --
not looking for a budget deal. I don't mind paying.
But I want dependable hosting service and full-service,
real SMTP/POP email. (Not partial email service
or a gmail wrapper.)
(I only use PHP and KSearch for extras. No need
for SQL, shopping carts, etc.)

For $20/mo. you can get a vps with plenty of disk space and bandwidth
for most website. But you have to manage it yourself - so it's probably
not what want. The point being, $20/mo. is way overpriced for most
sites nowadays, unless you have gobs of traffic and need lots of storage
and/or database.

Check http://www.webhostingtalk.com - it's a good place to start. Just
don't fall into the ads trap - look for recommendations from the people
who use the hosting sites.

[John Bokma]

Post by Mayayana
I've had a website hosted on Earthlink for
many years and have been very happy with
them, but recently they seem to have sold
out to carrierzone.com. I'm unable to find
any info. about that company or about the
sale. My website email now goes through some
sort of carrierzone proxy and now works
very slowly.
1) Does anyone know what's going on
with Earthlink/Carrierzone?
2) I haven't needed to shop for hosting since 1999.
Do people have recommendations if I decide
to move my hosting? I'm paying $20/month --
not looking for a budget deal. I don't mind paying.
But I want dependable hosting service and full-service,
real SMTP/POP email. (Not partial email service
or a gmail wrapper.)
(I only use PHP and KSearch for extras. No need
for SQL, shopping carts, etc.)

Never used it myself, but Dreamhost springs to mind.

For 20/month you can have a VPS and can set up everything how you want
it. Sometimes I am thinking to offer initial set up with Slicehost (the
VPS I am using) as a service. On the other hand, I can see the many
emails with questions :-).

[Mayayana]

Thanks to you both. I do seem to be behind the
times. When I first got a host, traffic allotment was
the main cost and server-side functionality required
one's own server. Now it seems that everything is
very cheap. Though in some ways it's the same.
I ended up with Earthlink because they were one of
the few that actually allowed full use of the paid-for
allotment. Most hosts were making a living by selling
hosting for a few dollars/month with the assumption
that few people would ever actually use their site. And
most didn't allow binary downloads. Today it still seems
to be somewhat that way. Most hosts provide "unlimited"
storage and traffic, but the fine print says they'll
charge for "excessive" use, without defining what
excessive means.


I wasn't aware of "VPS".
But looking into it, I don't think I need anything
like that. I can't see the work being justified
unless I needed to run something like a "web-app"
server. (Seeing the flexible options with VPS I wonder
how Amazon's cloud and Microsoft's Azure are
getting any customers.)

[John Bokma]

Post by Mayayana
I wasn't aware of "VPS".
But looking into it, I don't think I need anything
like that. I can't see the work being justified

You are full in control. The initial configuration is most of the work.

Post by Mayayana
unless I needed to run something like a "web-app"
server. (Seeing the flexible options with VPS I wonder
how Amazon's cloud and Microsoft's Azure are
getting any customers.)

They get customers that need a lot of resources. Stuff you can't run on
a VPS or a dedicated server anymore.

[www.GymRatZ.co.uk]

Post by Mayayana
I wasn't aware of "VPS".
But looking into it, I don't think I need anything
like that. I can't see the work being justified
unless I needed to run something like a "web-app"
server. (Seeing the flexible options with VPS I wonder
how Amazon's cloud and Microsoft's Azure are
getting any customers.)

http://www.futurequest.net/Services/Packages/
Always get a response from tech support within a few minutes of mailing
them regardless of time of day or in fact day of week.

Thougoughly recommended from every perspective.
:¬)