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Many many hosts offer immense amounts of bandwidth and disk space these days. Some even offer unlimited bandwidth and space. Unfortunately this is simply an advertising tactic, because you can never really use all of your assigned space/bandwidth.
What's happening is the focus of shared hosting is changing. Bandwidth is cheaper than ever, hard drives cost almost nothing. These days, real usage is measured on power. Raw processing power needed for a certain site. Customers are
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On Sunday morning, a new thread was started claiming that the much praised Alex Ferrier is actually Chris Gotzmann, a much hated scammer on WHT. Of course, the immediate concern was in the truth of the matter, and some evidence was shown. If it was to be found as correct, this was a serious allegation, bo
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...and apparently, he has no idea of customer service. Yesterday, an extremely interesting thread popped up on WHT. A fuss over a design, perhaps a stolen design, but, there were two things that shocked me:
Firstly, the fact that Skylar (owner of Crissic), was holding the customers domain name hostage, despite it not having anything to do with the design issue
Secondly, and more shockingly, the language Sk
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Today the customers of Hosting Puppy were in uproar @ WHT (thread) due to an outage, which developed into an arguement over who actually runs the company, since it was sold without any real customer notice.
According to Jon Watson, the origional owner of HP, the company was passed over to Rama Media Group on the 31st March this year, yet none of the customers seemed to acually know this.
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This really only applies to people looking for either colocation services or dedicated servers. Most people simply don't look at the datacenter location/size/quality when purchasing shared/reseller or vps hosting. Anyway, the following is a list of key factors in choosing the right datacenter:
Network. Obviously a strong network
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