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Reading Posh

Sophisticated rhetorician
Jul 8, 2003
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Off M4 J11
Our Oirish millionaire gave Keith Alexander the bullet this afternoon.

The Posh Net messageboard went into meltdown and, as a result of bandwith demand, our fuckwit webhosts suspended the domain. Five hours later and it's still not back.

We run a vBulletin messageboard and regularly burn about 20GB a month in bandwith - though clearly we gobbled up some extra resource this afternoon.

THE PLEA - can anyone recommend a reliable webhost that can accomodate our modest messageboard and has a support desk that responds to queries?

Much appreciated

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Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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Gully no 1 said:
i have a lot of hosting i dont use i would actually be able to host another board on my current package at no cost. (even if it is reading :p)
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What spec is your server and what else is on it?
 


Bozza

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Safeway said:
Oh yeah, you've come to the perfect place to ask about reliable webhosting. :jester:

www.novogate.com hosts www.northstandpolls.com with very few problems (and they let you have porn). :thumbsup:
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My 4 year old knows more about hosting than this buffoon!

What spec is your machine Safeway, what are the usage limits and how much is it?
 


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Safeway

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Jul 5, 2003
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Bozza said:
My 4 year old knows more about hosting than this buffoon!
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:lolol: :lolol: :lolol:

Bozza said:
What spec is your machine Safeway, what are the usage limits and how much is it?
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ABSOLUTELY no idea what 'spec' NSP is. I just pay my £120 a year (out of my own pocket, might I add, in addition to the price of the .com) and it runs itself.

I think the REAL question is which site out of the two has more technical problems.

Clue: It's not NSP.
 




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Kent Seagull

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Jul 5, 2003
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Tenterden, Kent
I'm not an expert by any means but I do have a website hosted at 1&1 which has been reliable at a reasonable price. Not had any reason to use support so i can't comment on that. might be worth a look?
 




Bozza

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Safeway said:
:lolol: :lolol: :lolol:



ABSOLUTELY no idea what 'spec' NSP is. I just pay my £120 a year (out of my own pocket, might I add, in addition to the price of the .com) and it runs itself.

I think the REAL question is which site out of the two has more technical problems.

Clue: It's not NSP.
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All hail the webmaster :bowdown:
 








Jerryatric

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Jul 18, 2003
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Safeway said:
I think the REAL question is which site out of the two has more technical problems.

Clue: It's not NSP.
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But nobody ever goes on NSP, so it never gets a chance to have problems!
 






Bozza

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Kent Seagull said:
I'm not an expert by any means but I do have a website hosted at 1&1 which has been reliable at a reasonable price. Not had any reason to use support so i can't comment on that. might be worth a look?
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NSC used to be at 1&1 but theit biggest package used to be, I think, 40GB traffic a month and the cost for bursting that became quite prohibitive - about £5 per GB if I recall.

Some months NSC was costing in the region of £150 to host on that arrangement.

Just had a quick look back and their packages are bigger now, which one would expect I guess, so could be worth a go for Readingposh. In fact looking at their dedicated server offerings I might have a look at getting NSC moved again.

Safeway is a snidey little shit who has no idea what he's talking about, obviously, but there is an element of truth in what he says. NSC's dedicated server costs £80 per month and is more than adequate for NSC about 99% of the time. The other 1% of the time, when something big happens, the server is not sufficiently powerful enough to cope, the cracks show and then it quickly gives up. I'm reluctant to commit more of NSC's hosting pot every month for something more powerful that simply is not needed most of the time. But if I can get a better specced box for about the same amount of money we might be able to cover at least some of that peak 1%.
 
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Reading Posh

Sophisticated rhetorician
Jul 8, 2003
1,305
Off M4 J11
Thanks for the replies fellas.

1&1 are on my radar and their 40GB offering should do... well at least until we're in the Premiership :)
 


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adrian29uk

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Sep 10, 2003
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Our new dedicated server is costing £200.00 a month which I am currently setting up.

The dedicated server we are on at the moment started giving up over xmas due to number of visitors.

It got to a point where it asked me if I wanted to download the .php page itself lol.

I run an auction site for my boss and if this new server does is not capable then we will be purchasing a second server just for the database, so hopefully it will spread the load.

One server deals with pages and images and the other server just deals with the database.

Who do you host with Bozza? I might be interested
 






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marvin

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Jul 5, 2003
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The corner quietly rusting
Bozza said:
NSC used to be at 1&1 but theit biggest package used to be, I think, 40GB traffic a month and the cost for bursting that became quite prohibitive - about £5 per GB if I recall.

Some months NSC was costing in the region of £150 to host on that arrangement.

Just had a quick look back and their packages are bigger now, which one would expect I guess, so could be worth a go for Readingposh. In fact looking at their dedicated server offerings I might have a look at getting NSC moved again.

Safeway is a snidey little shit who has no idea what he's talking about, obviously, but there is an element of truth in what he says. NSC's dedicated server costs £80 per month and is more than adequate for NSC about 99% of the time. The other 1% of the time, when something big happens, the server is not sufficiently powerful enough to cope, the cracks show and then it quickly gives up. I'm reluctant to commit more of NSC's hosting pot every month for something more powerful that simply is not needed most of the time. But if I can get a better specced box for about the same amount of money we might be able to cover at least some of that peak 1%.
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Hi Boz hello everyone else

1&1, if you need support at anytime forget it, clueless and helpless when it comes to ny thing more than a simple question that can be answered by a 14 year old typing into a preset programme of answers is what I find. When they were asked can I speak to the person you speak to in order to get a better answer, theres no one else here was the reply I got!

The Album (the same hosting that NSC used to share I think Boz) is still on 1&1 but only due to apathy!

Have you all noticed how rubbish we are doing now I am no longer taking photo's on a regular basis? :^
 


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