hello,


after being tierd of issues with dotcanada's affordablehost i am now looking to move to a new company..price is realy not an issue..i dont beleive in cheap hosts..definately reputation and customer support is a major thing..so i am definatley looking for that..also i am looking for something where i can get different sub class C ips..i contacted site5 but it seems that the sales person really didn't care...anyhow so some reputable company..somethign that can be of the standard of affordablehost..thanks

have you try httpme.com ?

well, I haven't tried very many hosts, but currently I use varhosting.net and I am very satisfied with their hosting. They have nice plans and VERY good support. They will also support your clients.

May I know what is your budget and OS platform? (Linux or Windows?)

Hello legendhost,

different sub class C ips

Is this requirement for each of your nameservers?

probably SEO ...

Originally posted by LegendHost
hello,


after being tierd of issues with dotcanada's affordablehost i am now looking to move to a new company..price is realy not an issue..i dont beleive in cheap hosts..definately reputation and customer support is a major thing..so i am definatley looking for that..also i am looking for something where i can get different sub class C ips..i contacted site5 but it seems that the sales person really didn't care...anyhow so some reputable company..somethign that can be of the standard of affordablehost..thanks


Cheap does not always mean bad. :) Test a host out first, call them at 3am and see if they answer, send them a ticket at 5am the next day see how long it takes for them to answer. We get customers that do it all the time. Just an idea, but I would not pick a host only on price because you could miss out big time and save some money. ;)

http://www.clook.net I have only been with them a short time but they were brought to my attention from a long time friend who has been with them for years. Good luck in your search

Originally posted by Vortech
Cheap does not always mean bad. :) Test a host out first, call them at 3am and see if they answer, send them a ticket at 5am the next day see how long it takes for them to answer.
And that depends on what time zone they're in, and what time zone the host is in. 3am for the client could be 12pm for the host, so your theory has holes. :D

Ok well check what time zone the host is in and send it to them at there 3am. hehe That should do the trick.

I would suggest block9hosting.net & varhosting.net both offer very good support and affordable plans with no compromise on the quality.

Block9Hosting does not offer overselling, Varhosting does.(depends on what you like I guess)

Varhosting offers very quick response times on their support ticket, Block9hosting are quick too, but I havent had any reason to submit a ticket - uptime is 100% since beginning of April.

I can go on comparing but you get the gist of it, either one of these two, you will be happy with...

Idologic (http://www.idologic.com) has good track records.

For some host, if you are willing to pay for an additional block of ips say 8, you can get a set of ips of the different class C from your initial set. To get each ip of a different class C, I would love to know who will do it.

Easier said than done. Now-a-days ARIN is so darn strict on giving out IP's that buying them with $$$ is not the problem, giving them a valid reason for the use of the IP is the problem.

Even if you have money, they could easily refuse selling it to you. They are ruthless in this sense.

well yes i need it for seo purposes..and well i have been reading here for a long time and needless to say majority of the "cheap plan" hosting companies either dont last or in a short period of time they overall..also cheap hosting companies are the first attraction for all abusive users...

site5 has reputation but didn't like the tone of the sales person..

affordablehost was really really good till the sale was done..and now is in the hands of dotcanada which i am trying to get rid of..

any other resellers hopefully..

thanks

Stay away from hostdeal.com and resellernow.com, both appear to be under the dotcanada umbrella. I was just recently acquired by them from a previous small web host reseller. So far we have had numerous problems and no responses to our tickets or emails. Our most recent outage was over 4 days to be resolved. No email, no databases, no response to any of our tickets.

STAY AWAY!

I am currently looking for a new provider.

I agree with LegendHost. Since the takeover I have become seriously disillusioned. You can expect issues when there is a takeover, however there's a limit of bad treatment one can take.

The REAL question is finding a list of Cpanel hosts who sell Reseller accounts with Webhost Manager. The thought of transferring numerous customers accounts is daunting, but can be reduced dramatically if you can export your full backup files from Cpanel.

If anyone has seen such a list I would be keen, or in fact if they have compiled a list of their own during their research that would be handy.

I also agree support is the #1 issue when looking for a good host, but as sown by Affordable, a small single person operation means when they want to get out they either bomb or sell out and get integrated into another host - which is not often a positive thing.

Originally posted by Resella
The REAL question is finding a list of Cpanel hosts who sell Reseller accounts with Webhost Manager.

Most cPanel reseller plans come with WHM included :)

Just choose the cPanel reseller plan you are interested in.
If you can't find the info about WHM on the website, just ask
their sales department to be sure.

What are the alternatives available to resellers other then CPanel? Are there industry standard ones for the Windows platform or alternatives on the Linux platform besides CPanel?

Thanks,

Jason

Hi Jason,

You have many alternatives to cPanel. H-Sphere, Plesk and many other control panels allow for reselling...

You may want to take a look at h-sphere, as it allows for dual platform reseller accounts (windows and linux) from 1 control panel....

CartikaHosting,

Thanks for the reply. In doing very preliminary research I've seen alot of posts in regards to vortechosting.com. Is this a company you have heard anything good about?

I am VERY interested in offering customers both Linux and Windows. Currently my smaller clients are happy with Linux but I've had to refer some larger clients to other providers because alot of their applications written in ASP.Net will not run correctly on Chilisoft or other ASP "like" technologies on the Linux platform.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks!