webhosting that doesnt suck.
 

can anyone suggest webhosting that doesnt suck? i just need something inexpensive with php and mysql support so i can fuck around and pretend to learn it. my current provider seems to think 'uptime' means 'it will be fixed within a week' over the course of a month.

~james

I happen to rule very bad. Unfortunately, I am lazy about setting up DNS - ask sycamore.

Not only that, but I'll do it for oral sex once a month.

hmmm... tempting, but im suddenly thinking 20 bucks a month for a broken service is pretty reasonable. :)

i just love how getting them to fix something is like pulling teeth, but when my credit card expires they waste no fucking time in making sure i know about it. the only reason im still with them at all is because we are buying a house and i cannot be without that email address right now. oh fuck. now that ive said that out loud it will probably break.

~james

I use dreamhost for my vanity domain... I've never had any reliability problems with them. Of course, my usage is very modest, and the most traffic I generate is when I put an image there to link to from one of my Cellar postings. But all my mail is forwarded through them, and I can't remember any non-announced downtime in the 3 years I've been running the domain.

You could use me except that I am even lazier. Ask juju - I told him I'd work out hosting pricing and options about three weeks ago, and still haven't done it.

Depends on what's important to you. There seem to be quite a few services for under $10/month with quite a bit of space. Shell access (i.e. SSH) seems to limit your choices a bit, for example. This looks like a pretty good search engine for features.

This looks like a helluva deal to me for $8.25/month plus $25 setup: http://www.nexpoint.net/products/shared/linspecial.cfm
Unlimited POP/IMAP email accounts, 500MB storage, unlimited bandwidth, SSH access, 99.9% uptime, 30 day money-back guarantee.

Dave,

Could I possibly contact you offline to talk to you about hosting? UT sent me in your direction at Forks, and I've not thought about it till today.

Dagney

Eh, I'm real bad about these things. Send me a private message or something about your needs. To test server speed, see the images in http://msdelta.net/~dave/images - 'cause that's the server it's on.

I can do pretty much anything you want, 'cause... I own the server. It's colocated in Baltimore.

Giving or receiving?

(On second thought, never mind.)

Nah, I'll do it for mostly free. I appreciate donations to charities. Maybe Toys for Tots around Christmas, etc.

You are giving capitalist pigs a bad name.