A Little HELP

[on line artisan]

Hello to One and All:

I have a question at I’m sure someone out there has the answer to it….

Where can one find a Quality E-Business hoster that has references???
I have found many firms claiming to “Have references” or making claims of “Being in business for X years”. That will not do, and the logic behind this statement goes without saying.

Our firm is actively seeking relocation and the hosting firm must have active references in product based e-business solutions.

Any suggestions, comments or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Also any hosting firm that meet these needs may contact me directly at bdavis@onlineartisan.com

On a side note: Any reviews for this site are welcomed . . . Site name: www.onlineartian.com

Thanking you in advance for your feedback regarding this request.

Sincerely,

[mikmik]

Hi, on line artisan.

I came across this little beauty a couple of weeks ago, and it has a HUGE database of server and webhosts listings complete with some of the most comprehensive reviews I have seen for a while.

http://www.webhostingratings.com/

I would mention my host, readyhosting, but I am not sure that it is exactly what you mean, and it doesn't have the best responce times for the support.

They got a fairly low rating here, actually (3 - 4 / 10), but the mentions of server responce time don't seem to jive with my test that I did, that indicated a responce time of 2.8 seconds, which is considered quite fast.

Good luck, I usually like to post links for all to take agvantage of in responce to requests in the forum.
:o)

[on line artisan]

Mr. Mike:

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

And, Oh Yea, Sorry to hear about your hoster but I do appreciate the info.

Thanks again,

[mikmik]

You are welcome :o)

Was that good enough for your purposes?
Also, I don't have any problem with http://readyhosting.com and they ARE reliable, and very well established.
Just a year ago, in fact, they were listed in CNET's
"top 5 host's" quite regularily and were featured in PCmag.

They have support for every Db, pPHP, perl ODBC, Coldfusion, ASP, ASP.net, etc and have a free shopping cart and unlimited e-mails and BANDWIDTH!

They are very 'feature' rich, and I recommend them.
They also have a Streaming Media server.

[eightfifteen]

I do reselling for Pair.com, and have had nothing but good experiences with them. The only possible drawback is that they are Unix servers only, which means no ASP.

[mikmik]

I kind of figured something along those lines.
The host i mentioned is IIS win 2000k, and They were down for a couple of hours about three weeks ago, MyDoom I suspect, but other than that, in the last year I haven't ever noticed being offline for more than 1 minute at a time, and only rarely at that - however I am not big enough of a site to really notice.

I also remembered cyanide, my friend, who has hosting service at http://fxstudios.net who may be doing something with IIS, I am not sure yet, but he is a very good and helpful person, and I recommend getting in contact with him. In fact, I will point him to this post.
:o)

[on line artisan]

Ask and ye shall receive ... In Spades!

Thanks for all the great leads.

I will be checking them out over the next day or so.

Feel free to refer this posting to anyone that you think could help.

WPW is and has the best people, resources, and data base of smarts on the net.

And, You can quote me on that.

Respectfully,

[Corey Bryant]

As Mike pointed out, the ratings sites are not always that great. They can be easily manipulated

I have used Hostway for a number of years, with no problems. And we actually resell the hosting but we are in the process of moving - only because I want to be able to provide more services to my clients without having to nickel & dime them.

[on line artisan]

Corey Bryant:

When you get this please know that I do not normally take thislong to get backwhen some one is good enough to respond.

I'll be checking out your suggestion.

Much thanks,

[Corey Bryant]

No problem - good luck with the search. The only company that I would suggest to stay away from is CI host.

[on line artisan]

Corey Bryant:

Thanks for the FYI.