OK, after Alan directed my attention to this post and its accompanying comments, I’ve decided I want to switch hosting services (see previous post about the e-mail they sent their customers after triple billing them). I need to take my domains (i.e., jeremyfreese.com and jeremyfreese.whateverelse) with me. Is this easy to do? Does anyone have a service they recommend?
While some of their commenters on their blog are complimenting them for “keepin’ it real” about their incompetence, I don’t want hipster incompetence. I want competence. Also, I want out of their service while they are still refunding money and before they go under from other defections and other things they have to do with people whose finances are all bothered up from the unexpected charges.
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Jeremy, we use hostmysite.com. No complaints, though I am no techie.
I have emails from them with special offers; all are expired by now, but FYI they sometimes offer free setup, 25% off hosting accts, etc.
They took care of bringing our domain name over to them.
A general rule with hosting services (especially shared hosting) is that everyone thinks their host provider is just great, until it screws something up or has an outage.
I’ve used DreamHost since 1999 or so. (I got the same email as you, but I don’t owe them any money right now so I didn’t get billed anything.) I’ve heard good things about Pair networks (pair.com). Transferring domains isn’t hard. If you only have static content (no databases) on the domains you’ll be moving, it’ll just be a question of moving stuff over via sftp.
I use GoDaddy.com Been with them close to 10 years now I think. They have several different plans depending upon what you need, and I haven’t really had any problems with them. They’ll take care of everything.
Re 2, for instance I believe Alan and I both have accounts with Joyent, which began life (as TextDrive) as Hosting Done Right by People Who Cared About It, and generally succeeded for a while. And look what just happened to them.
And I haven’t gotten an email from them about it, either.
As usual, KH beat me to the punch @2 - moved a while back from addr.com to hostingmatters.com. I’ve had more success with the latter than the former. Occasional problems, but problems endemic to any shared hosting rather than a dedicated server.
Moving domains is pretty trivial and usually entails emailing someone at your new host or something like it. I now have multiple domains parked at subdirectories of my main site - so peter.mydomain.com is one domain, markets.mydomain.com is a second, etc. Then rethinkingmarkets.org points to markets.mydomain.com, so when people go to rethinking, they are really going to my markets directory. Sounds more confusing than it is, really.
It appears to be less space/bandwidth and fewer MySQL databases allowed than dreamhost for about the same amount of money ($115 or so/year). But I’ve never come close to hitting the ceilings.