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OT: Recommend web host
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| nrford 2006-01-20, 6:56 pm |
| I'm looking for a good web host with the following features:
1. Inexpensive (mostly a hobby site), but no ads
2. Not case-sensitive URLs
3. Support for VB6 CGIs
I've been using fatcow for the last year. It's only $99/year,
so #1 is okay, but it fails on #2 and #3.
Any recommendations?
TIA,
Nelson
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| I've just been looking for a new hoster myself. After some research I
found: www.powweb.com
They've not been recommended to me specifically but I didn't find any
bad reviews and (unlike some) they provide publicly visible forums so
you can see how their users feel about them.
And they seem reasonably priced too.
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Are you sure about this? I would have thought that any Linux server will
be case sensitive. Even a site like IMDB is case sensitive:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054637/ - works ok
http://www.imdb.com/titlE/tt0054637/ - fails
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Dunno - but powweb have a nice little open chat room you can just drop
in on without registering and ask a moderator.
HTH - and please post back if you find a good hoster.
FYI
I currently use gisol.com. They offer both Windows and Linux hosting.
Windows hosting will allow for case insensitive URLs.
However.... they're the most useless hosters imaginable - it might take
days to reply to a support ticket and when they do you're lucky if they
answer one of your questions. On one instance they even went in and
changed all my html paths in one file to work around a server config
problem. Oh.... and the 3 hour downtimes they blame on "network spikes"
nothing spikey about them, more like plateaus.... brrrrrr...I could go
on - don't touch them. Seriously. I intend to move away from them soon.
nrford wrote:[color=darkred]
> I'm looking for a good web host with the following features:
> 1. Inexpensive (mostly a hobby site), but no ads
> 2. Not case-sensitive URLs
> 3. Support for VB6 CGIs
>
> I've been using fatcow for the last year. It's only $99/year,
> so #1 is okay, but it fails on #2 and #3.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> TIA,
>
> Nelson
>
>
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| Mike L 2006-01-20, 6:56 pm |
| I use http://www.canaca.com/. It's only $3.95 a month (if you use the
24-month commitment plan), and $10/year for the domain. They give you 20 GB
of space and 500 GB of data transfer. It's not case-sensitive, and I'm not
sure about the VB CGI scripts.
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| Michael C 2006-01-20, 6:56 pm |
| "Gman" <nah> wrote in message
news:%23Ex%23osfHGHA.344@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Are you sure about this? I would have thought that any Linux server will
> be case sensitive. Even a site like IMDB is case sensitive:
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054637/ - works ok
> http://www.imdb.com/titlE/tt0054637/ - fails
But any MS server won't be.
Michael
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| nrford 2006-01-20, 6:56 pm |
| "Mike L" <pillowpc2001@paonline.com> wrote in message news:e7Y5zYgHGHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I use http://www.canaca.com/. It's only $3.95 a month (if you use the
> 24-month commitment plan), and $10/year for the domain. They give you 20 GB
> of space and 500 GB of data transfer. It's not case-sensitive, and I'm not
> sure about the VB CGI scripts.
I don't know that I would ever use even 500GB/month
of data transfer, but still -- it appears that webhost4life.com
gives *unlimited* data transfer for $1 more per month...
Nelson
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| Indeed, as I wrote in the same post you quoted:
<Windows hosting will allow for case insensitive URLs.>
Maybe you didn't read it all -- it did go on a bit.... :-)
BTW, in case anyone's umming and ahhing about the OS to choose: I
switched from Linux to Windows thinking that my PHP code would run just
as well on Windows as it does on Linux plus I'd have the benefit of ASP
too. I was wrong. The problem isn't actually the OS but rather the web
server. My host uses IIS which makes some elements of PHP
(authentication for example) behave some differently. (PHP running on my
Apache, Win2K test server at home on the other hand runs great....)
Michael C wrote:
> "Gman" <nah> wrote in message
> news:%23Ex%23osfHGHA.344@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
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> But any MS server won't be.
>
> Michael
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| >>2. Not case-sensitive URLs
>Are you sure about this? I would have thought that any Linux server will be
>case sensitive. Even a site like IMDB is case sensitive:
Linux is case sensitive, but ISPs try to make the domain
name not case sensitive.
Example: if you write WWW.MICROSOFT.COM then it will
find it OK. But if you write www.microsoft.com/WINXP then
it will not find it.
"Gman" <nah> wrote in message
news:%23Ex%23osfHGHA.344@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
> I've just been looking for a new hoster myself. After some research I
> found: www.powweb.com
>
> They've not been recommended to me specifically but I didn't find any bad
> reviews and (unlike some) they provide publicly visible forums so you can
> see how their users feel about them.
>
> And they seem reasonably priced too.
>
> Are you sure about this? I would have thought that any Linux server will
> be case sensitive. Even a site like IMDB is case sensitive:
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054637/ - works ok
> http://www.imdb.com/titlE/tt0054637/ - fails
>
> Dunno - but powweb have a nice little open chat room you can just drop in
> on without registering and ask a moderator.
>
> HTH - and please post back if you find a good hoster.
>
> FYI
> I currently use gisol.com. They offer both Windows and Linux hosting.
> Windows hosting will allow for case insensitive URLs.
>
> However.... they're the most useless hosters imaginable - it might take
> days to reply to a support ticket and when they do you're lucky if they
> answer one of your questions. On one instance they even went in and
> changed all my html paths in one file to work around a server config
> problem. Oh.... and the 3 hour downtimes they blame on "network spikes"
> nothing spikey about them, more like plateaus.... brrrrrr...I could go
> on - don't touch them. Seriously. I intend to move away from them soon.
>
>
> nrford wrote:
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| Mike L 2006-01-21, 6:55 pm |
| "nrford" <nrfordmsvb@REMOVE_THIS_cardsharkgames.com> wrote:
> I don't know that I would ever use even 500GB/month
> of data transfer
Me neither - I just got this one because it was one of the cheapest
paid-hosting sites I could find. Right now I'm just using it as a personal
website, and I don't even know if I've ever went over 250 MB of data
transfer in one month yet!
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| My example was bad because Microsoft uses windows server,
but you got the idea.
Linux stuck in the old ways, luckily they handle
any case email address these days, they didn't in the old days.
"Gman" <nah> wrote in message news:eEKluHsHGHA.1388@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
> Isn't that just because DNS's aren't case sensitive? It's only folder and
> file names that depend on the operating system.
>
> Taking your example of microsoft's site, which I think is safe to assume
> is a windows OS (!!), contrary to your post both
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> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/
> and
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsXP/
> will work. (server is Microsoft-IIS/6.0)
>
> Whereas
> http://www.google.com/about.html -- works
> http://www.google.com/ABOUT.html -- doesn't
> (server is GWS/2.1)
>
> Likewise
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news -- works
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/NEWS -- doesn't
> (server is Apache/2.0.54 (Unix))
> The last example is pretty lazy of the BBC since
> subdomains aren't case sensitive either:
> http://NEWS.bbc.co.uk/
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/
> both work so, IMO, they should have redirections on both News and NEWS.
>
> FYI - I used www.grc.com's IDServe to get server information.
>
> TedF wrote:
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| I have used myhosting.com for over 5 years. No problems and responsive
to inquiries. They don't support 3rd party dlls, but I have written and
used several vb6 cgi executables with no problems. Their website
doesn't show it on the home page, but they have a $9.95 plan.
Alan
nrford wrote:
> I'm looking for a good web host with the following features:
> 1. Inexpensive (mostly a hobby site), but no ads
> 2. Not case-sensitive URLs
> 3. Support for VB6 CGIs
>
> I've been using fatcow for the last year. It's only $99/year,
> so #1 is okay, but it fails on #2 and #3.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> TIA,
>
> Nelson
>
>
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