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Steve Comstock
Sep 26, 2011, 12:08:02 PM9/26/11
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I put up our website way back in 1998. From that day to
this it has been hosted by Verio. Service has been OK.
But lately there is evidence I am not getting all my
emails. We get most. But from time to time I hear from
someone who has sent me an email and it has never gotten
to me. I have lost some business and some personal emails
that I wanted to see.
The Verio support staff have been giving me runarounds
and false promises and lies. I've had enough.
So I need to find a new web hosting company, and I'm
looking from recommendations from the list, especially
from those of you who run small businesses, for good
web hosting companies.
Requirements include:
* Support staff in the U.S.; I am tired of not being
able to understand the support people; and I want
to encourage companies that hire Americans
* Host on UNIX or Linux (actually, host on z/OS or
Linux on z would be cool, but I don't think I'm
going to find that); not Windows
* Ability to run CGIs; support of some common web
languages (php, perl, etc.)
* Support for some relational data base
* Affordable; NOTICE: I did _not_ say cheap. I think
we must all start to change the mentality that price
is the only criteria. To get value you must pay a
fair price.
(Actually, if corporations would start to act
like they understand this, we would see some
improvement in the economy quickly, I believe)
* Like to have unique IP address that could host
multiple domains.
I'm off to run some errands, but if anyone has some
recommendations, please send 'em to me. You can reply on
list or off list. Hope I get your email.
--
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
303-393-8716
http://www.trainersfriend.com
this it has been hosted by Verio. Service has been OK.
But lately there is evidence I am not getting all my
emails. We get most. But from time to time I hear from
someone who has sent me an email and it has never gotten
to me. I have lost some business and some personal emails
that I wanted to see.
The Verio support staff have been giving me runarounds
and false promises and lies. I've had enough.
So I need to find a new web hosting company, and I'm
looking from recommendations from the list, especially
from those of you who run small businesses, for good
web hosting companies.
Requirements include:
* Support staff in the U.S.; I am tired of not being
able to understand the support people; and I want
to encourage companies that hire Americans
* Host on UNIX or Linux (actually, host on z/OS or
Linux on z would be cool, but I don't think I'm
going to find that); not Windows
* Ability to run CGIs; support of some common web
languages (php, perl, etc.)
* Support for some relational data base
* Affordable; NOTICE: I did _not_ say cheap. I think
we must all start to change the mentality that price
is the only criteria. To get value you must pay a
fair price.
(Actually, if corporations would start to act
like they understand this, we would see some
improvement in the economy quickly, I believe)
* Like to have unique IP address that could host
multiple domains.
I'm off to run some errands, but if anyone has some
recommendations, please send 'em to me. You can reply on
list or off list. Hope I get your email.
--
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
303-393-8716
http://www.trainersfriend.com
Jeff Byrum
Sep 26, 2011, 12:16:51 PM9/26/11
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Steve, you are aware that this list is international, right?
Pedro Vera
Sep 26, 2011, 12:33:23 PM9/26/11
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I think this thread is far off-topic. It has nothing to do with ISPF. So
far off-topic that I consider it to be spam.
Perhaps you can get better answers from the web-hosting forum, rather than
the ISPF developer's forum.
Pedro Vera
DB2 Admin Tool
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/db2tools/db2admin/
far off-topic that I consider it to be spam.
Perhaps you can get better answers from the web-hosting forum, rather than
the ISPF developer's forum.
Pedro Vera
DB2 Admin Tool
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/db2tools/db2admin/
Steve Comstock
Sep 26, 2011, 1:08:24 PM9/26/11
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On 9/26/2011 10:13 AM, Jeff Byrum wrote:
> Steve, you are aware that this list is international, right?
Yup. Let the Indians and the Chinese hire Indians and Chinese.
> Steve, you are aware that this list is international, right?
Heck, we have Indian companies as customers.
But too often the support staff who "speak English" are
incomprehensible. Furthermore, what is wrong with encouraging
American companies hiring American workers to support American
customers?
Steve Comstock
Sep 26, 2011, 1:12:53 PM9/26/11
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On 9/26/2011 10:30 AM, Pedro Vera wrote:
> I think this thread is far off-topic. It has nothing to do with ISPF. So
> far off-topic that I consider it to be spam.
>
> Perhaps you can get better answers from the web-hosting forum, rather than
> the ISPF developer's forum.
>
>
Well, your opinion is for you. To me, I offer training
> I think this thread is far off-topic. It has nothing to do with ISPF. So
> far off-topic that I consider it to be spam.
>
> Perhaps you can get better answers from the web-hosting forum, rather than
> the ISPF developer's forum.
>
>
to z/OS application developers, including TSO, ISPF,
REXX, Clist, and Dialog Manager developing. So my website
is hosting information about our ISPF offerings (among
others) and the mainframe community I feel is my community,
so I'm asking folks in my community about their experience
so I can re-host my website and continue to offer our
services (including ISPF training).
Maybe that's a stretch, but that's how I see it.
>
> Pedro Vera
> DB2 Admin Tool
> http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/db2tools/db2admin/
>
adrianstern
Sep 27, 2011, 5:11:47 AM9/27/11
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well yes, definitely off topic but it's Steve who's always ready to help (even the ignorant indians who ask for help and haven't the faintest idea what they're doing!) everyone whenever he can and the benefit of asking this group is that many of us are in a similar boat to Steve.
so, I use freehostia.com who originally offered free hosting but I don't think they do anymore. I had to switch to a fee plan 'cos I needed to store more stuff than you could get free - but it's extremely cheap and they're pretty good - incidents are addressed immediately by I believe American staff who genuinely try and help - they've only failed once and the problem is not a deal breaker - they've served me well for over three years now - although I don't have a company I use my site for web development and have two sites of my own running
still think you should stop over addressing though!
so, I use freehostia.com who originally offered free hosting but I don't think they do anymore. I had to switch to a fee plan 'cos I needed to store more stuff than you could get free - but it's extremely cheap and they're pretty good - incidents are addressed immediately by I believe American staff who genuinely try and help - they've only failed once and the problem is not a deal breaker - they've served me well for over three years now - although I don't have a company I use my site for web development and have two sites of my own running
still think you should stop over addressing though!
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