scintilla.org may be unavailable for a few days

[Neil Hodgson]

Since the current hosting provider is increasing their price by 60%, I'll probably move to a new one. This may lead to scintilla.org <http://scintilla.org/> not responding or other problems, like missing downloads, for a few days.

As there are some commercial pages and (not open-source) downloads, the site can't be completely moved to GitHub or SourceForge although I may move more of it to GitHub.

Neil

[seasoned_geek]

While I didn't see this until now, just passing along that I use GeekStorage.com for my hosting service. Reasonably priced and not part of EIG scams.

EIG, now known as Newfold Digital owns a steaming excrement pile of hosting companies.

https://newfold.com/brands

If they really did evolve from EIG, way more than they list there. According to this Reddit thread it was over 80 hosting companies. Having had many of their brands over the years, the scam is as follows:

1. Buy hosting companies in America.
   
2. Layoff all U.S. staff.
3. Move all operations to India.
4. Just have a different phone number and email address for each company.

Now, for the customer the scam is:

1. Advertise unbelievably low starter/introductory hosting price.
2. Charge at least $150/domain for migration.
   
3. After the first couple of weeks move the site to massively under powered virtual machines.
4. When customer complains about sucky site performance have customers service tell them "Well you are running on really old computers. You need to pay us to move you to new computers." All that really happened was they virtualized the one core you are running on to be N-cores and now it is completely overloaded.
   
5. Double, triple, or more, the hosting fee at end of "intro" period.
6. Spam customer with unbelievably low starter/introductory hosting price from 2-3 of the other 79 domains.
7. Charge at least $150/domain for migration when nothing leaves their servers.
8. Goto step 3.
   

[Andrew Truckle]

I used fasthosts which seems reasonably priced. My previous provider (of many years) ended up with crazy prices that I could not justify.

[seasoned_geek]

Curious Neil,

What hosting company did you go with and what was the one you left? I'm always interested in finding out good hosting companies.

[Neil Hodgson]

seasoned_geek:

> What hosting company did you go with and what was the one you left? I'm always interested in finding out good hosting companies.

I moved to Hostinger, paying for 4 years so shouldn't have to worry for a while. Previous was A2 Hosting which worked well. However A2's price was almost double Hostinger's long term price and more than 4 times the initial bait price. So far Hostinger seems good too and the dashboard is mostly reasonable.

It seems hosting companies have put enough effort into their dashboards that they are responsive now. Way back, scintilla.org <http://scintilla.org/> was on WestHost and their interface was often very slow.

Neil