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[blinking8s]

I just wanted to highly recommend http://www.eleven2.com, especially for digital photography. I’ve been through my share of hosting the last few years. The package specs are great and I've yet to see a better price with a quality company that offers solid uptime and good support.

[scaturan]

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[Joe[y]]

www.4uhosting.co.uk is easily the best host in the UK

[BiffBoxo]

I highly recommend Dreamhost.com Customer support is great, their plans are cheap, etc.

[Joe[y]]

I highly recommend Dreamhost.com Customer support is great, their plans are cheap, etc.

there's been a bit of controversy on these forums before about dreamhost. Customer support actually hasn't been all that great in some people's cases and as a result they've had a very hard time running PP.

[BiffBoxo]

I respectfully disagree with you. I and 4 of my associates have used Dreamhost for over a year now and had nothing but great experiences with a ton of bandwith, a ton of storage, and great customer support. With some of their plans they will call you back within 6-8 hours for up to 2 hours per month of live customer support.

Just our opinions though...

[Joe[y]]

I respectfully disagree with you. I and 4 of my associates have used Dreamhost for over a year now and had nothing but great experiences with a ton of bandwith, a ton of storage, and great customer support. With some of their plans they will call you back within 6-8 hours for up to 2 hours per month of live customer support.

Just our opinions though...

the main problem PP users have been having with dreamhost is that dreamhost is very cautious about it's security (obviously this can be argued as a good thing! :P) - this affects posting of images etc..

anyway, as you said. just opinions.

[blinking8s]

I highly recommend Dreamhost.com Customer support is great, their plans are cheap, etc.

worst host i have ever used in my life...

I had downtime all the time, and support never got a response back to me within 10 hours in my time there. Phone support took 2 days to return my call once...said they were busy, I had a very very large account with them and I expected my time to be worth moving to the front of the busy line. I once thought they were good, till I got a taste of what hosting SHOULD be like.

I cant even count the number of people I know that have left dreamhost in the last year, the 6-8 hour waits on support requests...the stats on accounts arnt that impressive, the price is solid, the admin panel isnt all that great...do they still take like 2 hours to get a db setup after you enter it? that really annoyed me...

now I know people that have had great uptime with dreamhost, they were on different servers, in different datacenters or whatever...good for them, but its inconsistant from what I have seen, I wouldnt ever send my business there again.

[Connie]

if you need a hoster who will answer or fix your questions / problems in less than one hour, mostly in 15 to 20 minutes, who offers a lot of space and a lot of traffic, who has cpanel and fantastico self-installer.. go to

http://www.siteground.com/

by the way, we could suggest to include PixelPost in Fantastico...

[Joe[y]]

I once thought they were good, till I got a taste of what hosting SHOULD be

hehe. so does eleven2 stick to it's "downtime, what's that?" slogan then?

i have never tried dreamhost... from the amount of bad reviews of it I saw I steered VERY clear :P

[blinking8s]

e2 seriously rocks...ive had stuff hosted at 9.99, 2advanced, dreamhost, flashlevel, media temple, and e2 takes the cake for my needs from hosting...i loved 2a and flashlevels 24-7 support, uptime at 2a was rock solid, but the plans were pricey, which puts a massive damper on the situation for the broke college student struggling for clients

Its amazing the people that have been switching to e2 though, I know several of the larger photoblogs from photoblogs.org switched there, those packages are rock solid for digital photography, the stroage and bandwidth and features at that price is a great deal...as well as many large name webdesigners that host there as well.

I think during a DOS attack I had 20 minutes of downtime, in which case e2 notified me right away of the situation and had everything stable again shortly following the notice. The occasional 30 seconds of downtime when I break something, panic on IM to support and they have it fixed right away...lol

and none of that hours of waiting for email support stuff, much of the time its live IM support, being a smaller company if i send in a request at 4am it migh take an hour or two to get a reply back from the system admin...in which case that is expected. But they are growing fast, new features and options all the time, and 24-7 live support will probably be short to follow I assume

also for blogging, subdomain stats are stored on their own account with cpanel, so keeping track of whats kickin with your photoblog with cpanel is very very nice...

[Zach-E2]

e2 seriously rocks...ive had stuff hosted at 9.99, 2advanced, dreamhost, flashlevel, media temple, and e2 takes the cake for my needs from hosting...i loved 2a and flashlevels 24-7 support, uptime at 2a was rock solid, but the plans were pricey, which puts a massive damper on the situation for the broke college student struggling for clients

Its amazing the people that have been switching to e2 though, I know several of the larger photoblogs from photoblogs.org switched there, those packages are rock solid for digital photography, the stroage and bandwidth and features at that price is a great deal...as well as many large name webdesigners that host there as well.

I think during a DOS attack I had 20 minutes of downtime, in which case e2 notified me right away of the situation and had everything stable again shortly following the notice. The occasional 30 seconds of downtime when I break something, panic on IM to support and they have it fixed right away...lol

and none of that hours of waiting for email support stuff, much of the time its live IM support, being a smaller company if i send in a request at 4am it migh take an hour or two to get a reply back from the system admin...in which case that is expected. But they are growing fast, new features and options all the time, and 24-7 live support will probably be short to follow I assume

also for blogging, subdomain stats are stored on their own account with cpanel, so keeping track of whats kickin with your photoblog with cpanel is very very nice...

Hey bro, thanks so much for the praise. I'm not so sure it's deserved, but seriously, it's appreciated a lot. So, on behalf of the rest of the guys at e2, thanks again.
Cheers.
Zach

[mikelangelo]

Based on Blinking's praise... I 'almost' switched from my host at 2advanced (http://www.2advanced.net), I'm REALLY happy with their service. Everytime I've had a question or a problem my emails were replied to in less than an hour and any phone calls were very helpful, quick and very polite.

The only problem was small hard drive space. But they've upped my hard drive space and are going to be upgrading their service all around soon, so i'll stick it out. Good service means a lot and I don't want to lose it, now that I have it. But, if I have any problems... eleven2 is on my list.

[Zach-E2]

Don't forget, all Pixelpost users get a 20% discount from Eleven2 just for being cool. And this offer is not just a one month deal, this is for life. Feeling special yet?

For more info, read the Pixelpost Hosting forum.
Cheers.

[blinking8s]

:D