Hosting: November 2006 Archives

I am currently trying to download a site backup for a client that is moving from one of our cheap competitors who basically resells some American hosts servers. God it is painful! I'm getting less than 30k / sec when I should be getting at least ten times that!!! If I had to deal with that kind of connection to this server, or any of the other ones that I deal with on a regular basis, I'd never get anything done and would end up incredibly frustrated. Ping speed from my desktop to this server: Ping statistics for 81.17.240.197: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 16ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 16ms Ping to cheap US based host: Ping statistics for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 146ms, Maximum = 172ms, Average = 159ms Talk about bad connectivity!!! So you really do get what you pay for .. or do you? For €30 ex-VAT you can get an Irish based hosting account with plenty of disk space and bandwidth. The key factor being that it's a service that will work and won't have a bad ping ie. there's no latency On the other hand you could opt to go with a cheap provider and not only pay more but actually get less. There's no point in having loads of disk space and bandwidth if the connection is so bad that you can barely make use of it!!!

Thought I'd crosspost this as some of you are clients of ours but may not read our blog normally. We've just upped the bandwidth limits on all our shared hosting plans (all existing clients have had theirs increased) For full details read our blog

Webhost Automation have released Helm 4 but it's premature. It's simply not ready for release. Who in their right mind releases a hosting control panel that doesn't support MySQL? What sane person would leave out modules that are so popular such as Awstats? Want the answer? Simply click here They seem to be going down the route that other software vendors have taken of late, namely: - Announce major update - Hype major update - Change licensing - Launch half-finished product - Omit previously included modules - Promise to include omissions when public get annoyed Their marketing blurb is laughable if you actually know what is going on, like their article on how windows is cheaper than linux (??) Don't get me wrong - the software is not bad, but what's bugging me is their harping on about how "wonderful" v4 is and then releasing it with basic functionality missing...