As some of you may be aware, hosting companies other than Vidahost and TSOhost do actually exist, however you do have to wonder why?!
Example 1 - Vidahost
It's a Sunday, I've been out all day, get back at 11:30 at night to find my answering machine and email full of messages from a client saying his sites been hacked and can I take it down temporarily then fix it during the week when I have the chance. Now even Vidahost basic shared package comes with 30day rolling backups so I simply fire off an email to them at MIDNIGHT on Sunday, 1 hour later the site is fully restores to a backup from a week ago and all is working perfectly. (Yes I fixed the security flaws the next day!)
Example 2 - GoDaddy
Currently doing a site for a client who is with a rather quint little company called GoDaddy. Stright away a few points stick out, their own website is slow, they offer unlimited packages, the whole customer account side is geared towards selling more crap not maintenance, and they are running a custom cPanel.
However, I was SHOCKED and APPALLED to when it took them 8 hours to reply to an email I sent them asking a question about IIS6, IIS7 and PHP5 and even then their only response was a generic copy and paste. Frankly I had to lie down for a bit I was so horrified!
Any way. No real point to this post, I just like to rant occasionally. I'm thinking about doing an extended soliloquy on 'Why Joomla sucks' compared to everything from static files with table layouts to Flash based websites that play music and disable the back button!
Example 1 - Vidahost
It's a Sunday, I've been out all day, get back at 11:30 at night to find my answering machine and email full of messages from a client saying his sites been hacked and can I take it down temporarily then fix it during the week when I have the chance. Now even Vidahost basic shared package comes with 30day rolling backups so I simply fire off an email to them at MIDNIGHT on Sunday, 1 hour later the site is fully restores to a backup from a week ago and all is working perfectly. (Yes I fixed the security flaws the next day!)
Example 2 - GoDaddy
Currently doing a site for a client who is with a rather quint little company called GoDaddy. Stright away a few points stick out, their own website is slow, they offer unlimited packages, the whole customer account side is geared towards selling more crap not maintenance, and they are running a custom cPanel.
However, I was SHOCKED and APPALLED to when it took them 8 hours to reply to an email I sent them asking a question about IIS6, IIS7 and PHP5 and even then their only response was a generic copy and paste. Frankly I had to lie down for a bit I was so horrified!
Any way. No real point to this post, I just like to rant occasionally. I'm thinking about doing an extended soliloquy on 'Why Joomla sucks' compared to everything from static files with table layouts to Flash based websites that play music and disable the back button!