All,

thank you for the recommendations and perspectives.  I will begin research in earnest in the next week or so, and look forward to reestablishing a presence in the fractal community.

Regards,
   Mark "Bud" Christenson

----- Original Message ----- From: "david" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 2:46 PM

Subject: Re: [Fractint] Web hosting

On 09/03/2012 10:42 AM, Hal Lane wrote:

We've been happy with GoDaddy for domain and hosting

I've had multiple bad experiences with GoDaddy.

I've had none. But I've never needed to anything like what you outline below. I don't think they've changed our server environment in years (including updating any of the installed software - at least on our server, they're not keeping up with PHP security patches since they're at least a full version behind current PHP).

I hosted a photographer's business site on GoDaddy and I had to rewrite
100 or so working pages to get them to work again -- *twice* -- when they
modified their server environment.  In one instance they were not able to
tell me what they did to their servers that made all my pages stop
displaying
a portion of their content.

Another catastrophic problem they were *never* able to fix:  Suddenly
about 20% of the time that our site's larger pages were served, only 75%
of the page's code was served.  They never could fix this.

The suggested possible workaround (which worked) was to buy, and copy the
multi-gigabyte site to what they call a "Legacy Server", which did not have
the clustered servers' intended reliability benefits that their normal
accounts use.


In most of the support calls I made to GoDaddy, their technical support
people's assumption was, in cases of web page display problems, that it was
always a problem in the web page creator's code.  This attitude was so
ingrained that it continued even when I showed them that their server's
file date stamp documented that the failing pages had not been modified
for six months prior to the start of a problem.


On a personal note, I don't particularly care for their web site's user
interface design they provide for you to administer your servers and
databases.
I always had trouble locating where common site management tasks were done
on their site.

I agree with that. Their site management front end is badly designed.

Finding what you need on their site is also complicated by the voluminous
upsell material embedded in many of their pages.

Yup. Their site isn't an example of how to design a website!

Their management of our domains was more or less acceptable.

  - Hal Lane

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Author: david
Date: 2012-08-31 15:07 -400
To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion
Subject: Re: [Fractint] Web hosting

On 08/31/2012 07:05 AM, Mark Christenson wrote:

After six years in limbo, I am considering resurrecting my fractal
website. Can anyone recommend a hosting service with good capacity and
reasonable prices?
Thanks,
Bud ( of the late Bud's Fractal Pages)

We've been happy with GoDaddy for domain and hosting, while others don't
like it. YMMV.

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