Thread: Any businesses using Netfirms for hosting?

I've had a pretty good track record with Open Source apps, at least for the Mac OS. Plex, Handbrake, TextWrangler, VLC - I use those every day and they are as good, if not better, than commercial apps. As far as CMSes go, WordPress does exactly what it's supposed to do. Having been in the software biz for 25 years, I have purchased some atrocious commercial software with terrible support. I would say my success rate with Open Source...

Quote: Originally Posted by skategoat I was worried when I installed Magento and the first thing it tells me is to set all the directory access to 777. Yes... that doesn't make any sense... it doesn't sound like it should be hosted on a shared server at all... then again I've never installed it... I spent years trying to fix other people's open source projects, and eventually I said screw it, and decided to build my own....

Quote: Originally Posted by skategoat Thanks for the feedback. Still undecided. Netfirms has a 30 day guarantee but I don't think that's long enough to truly evaluate a hosting service. Zenpher, you're taking about Hostgator, not gatorhost, right? Hostgator gets tons of good feedback but if you do a search for "Hostgator reviews", you get pages and pages of bogus shill sites. This worries me. If Hostgator...

I also forgot to say that... (I don't think anybody else mentioned it), you should really try to keep your hosting and domain seperate. I only use Netfirms for the domain. Nothing more.

Take a look at Zenutech. I've found them to be awesome and very reasonably priced.

Quote: Originally Posted by zenpher Gatorhost.com takes you to Hostgator.com, it's the same thing. I think any company would spend spend time and effort on promotion, at the end of the day they want to sell their services. But speaking from my own experiences, they offer the best shared hosting I've used out of fatcow, dreamhost, ipower, and a couple of others. They've been pretty rock solid in the past year that I've been...

I would suggest you to avoid overselling host at all cost. 9/10 the server will be placed on will be so slow and unstable due to the sheer amount of customer they put on one server. The other 1/10 is you getting lucky to be on a new server, but sooner of later that server will get fill up like the 9/10. Don't buy into the hosting scam that offer you 500GB of space and 3000GB of monthly transfer. Because you simply won't be able to...

Quote: Originally Posted by sexyj I would suggest you to avoid overselling host at all cost. 9/10 the server will be placed on will be so slow and unstable due to the sheer amount of customer they put on one server. The other 1/10 is you getting lucky to be on a new server, but sooner of later that server will get fill up like the 9/10. Don't buy into the hosting scam that offer you 500GB of space and 3000GB of monthly transfer. Because...

Quote: Originally Posted by sexyj I would suggest you to avoid overselling host at all cost. 9/10 the server will be placed on will be so slow and unstable due to the sheer amount of customer they put on one server. The other 1/10 is you getting lucky to be on a new server, but sooner of later that server will get fill up like the 9/10. Don't buy into the hosting scam that offer you 500GB of space and 3000GB of monthly transfer. Because...

I've been looking for an alternate, but as mentioned the review sites are all fake so I ended up renewing for another year out of pure frustration looking for an alternate (they were kind enough to offer me a 40% discount when I asked for a better price). I find my site to be very slow most of the time and some of my scripts timeout occasionally. I'd stay away if you are intending on doing any type of e-commerce site. It seems like...