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Ugh . . . need a new webhost. Suggestions?

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massive88:
I have used Lunarpages for the past two years which I have been very happy with, they have all sorts of software you can install through their control panel with ease.

http://www.lunarpages.com/

Dartful Dodger:
I went to their website to see why they weren't flexible with their server.

I was going to see if it was their OS or database that was causing it, but it turns out to be even simpler that that...

$3.88 a month!

I was(will soon be) paying that for a gallon a gas.


You had them for years and you liked their service a lot.  For that kind of deal I'd say 3 minutes of you time every three months to help protect your site isn't a bad trade off.

shmokes:
It's not 3 minutes of my time that bothers me.  It's not knowing what my bloody password is.  It's having to remember that I had to change it from using a hyphen to an underscore to a tilde and remembering which character is being used now.  It's the constantly rotating passwords, for something I rarely log into, that is the problem.  I try to get in and am like, "---fudgesicle--- . . . what's my password?  Let's see . . . I'll try this . . . no, that's not it . . . how about this . . . ah ha, yes, that's it," or, "---goshdarn--- it, I've tried everything, what the ---fudgesicle--- is my password?  Now I've got to go to the company's website and deal with tech support," only to find that no, my password simply expired again, just like it did a few months ago, and a few months before that.

Also, while $3.88/mo. is a good price, it's not the price I'm paying.  I'm paying $7/month plus whatever I pay for the domain.  Like $10 a year or something.  I don't remember.  And the host that I'm leaning toward right now, Justhost.com, is $3.95/mo. so even if I had Powweb's current promotional pricing, I would only be saving 84 cents per year with them.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on May 22, 2009, 01:07:56 pm ---
 to help protect your site isn't a bad trade off.


--- End quote ---

And for crying out loud, they're not helping me protect my site any more than some moron rushing up to me and insisting he hold my hand while I cross the street would be helping me cross the street.  I didn't ask for their help.  I don't want their help.  I asked them to stop.  It isn't help.  It's hindrance.

Namco:
You're actually less secure when you have to constantly change your password. You end up writing it down somewhere, or end up using a simple password with a continually rotating number at the end like password1 ... password2... password3.

Eventually with all the extra password administration these companies find themselves having do do (unlock accounts, reset users' passwords every few months), they will abandon it. Sooner rather than later hopefully.

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