Possibly irrelevant to most of the people who read here, I just wanted to write an entry about webhosting (all part of the diversification of Stayfun). The change in hosting that I made earlier in January was long overdue. In fact it was something I planned in January 2005, only I was misinformed by the old host, who then went and charged for another year of hosting well before the previous deal had expired. With one thing after another, I eventually settled with the status quo.
That hosting company was Nevidia. As I type this, their site isn’t even accessible, and that says a lot. What I do remember of their homepage is that it was a garish flash site that inflicts horrible streaming video and audio on you without an option to escape. They even used some fancy control panel software that was only compatible with Internet Explorer. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, when I first joined with them they seemed ideal. They offered ASP-friendly Windows hosting at a fair price, and they were small and friendly.
Sometimes I would contact their technical support and receive an instant response (a couple of times drunkenly in the middle of their night). I liked that. They seemed to care and would actually listen to me.
Unfortunately at some point during that first year they altered their package details and raised the price. Although that didn’t affect my contract, from that point the company went downhill. The servers were frequently offline. Sometimes my website no longer seemed to exist. Other times I would have visible Windows server errors for up to 12 hours until a server was reset. I would lose emails, and amazingly, at one point last year while abroad and depending on webmail, everything in the inboxes of all my accounts was mysteriously wiped.
Technology problems are one thing, and to be honest, over the last six months of my contract I did have a lot less issues with their servers. But the one key thing that I could never forgive was the lapse of their customer service. I can appreciate that replying to emails all day can be terribly boring, especially if being asked stupid questions over and over. However, I always try to write support emails with care, step-by-step, spelling out what is wrong in the hope that the reader actually understands. Yet instead of the immediate caring responses, I was then subjected to long delays before finally a one line standard response would arrive, completely ignoring everything I said. That always drives me insane, and dealing with Nevidia customer support would always turn into a battle of wills, a fight to get a reasonable response before my spirit was destroyed. And with friends also using their hosting, it wasn’t just me enduring that pain.
So now I’m with Streamline.Net. I’ve had one friend with them for a couple of years, plus they also host the Aereogramme site I designed last year. Neither have had any problems to date, and after two weeks of my new contract, their server has been reliable and customer support fairly decent. For now I am at peace with webhosts.
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