Comments on: Passing on a Note From Justine Larbalestier

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:59:47 +0000

Okay, so I’m a few days behind, but I’d like to recommend Verve Hosting. I had asked for web hosting recommendations in a forum at the site for JournalCon2004 and received some enthusiastic responses about Verve — so I tried them and have been very happy with them for more than four years now. I’ve never had a single problem with them, no technical problems, no service problems, no billing problems. I’ve currently got five domains on their servers. They’re at vervehosting-dot-com.

By: Flaime

Flaime — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:40:57 +0000

I’ve had good luck with ASmallOrange.com

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:31:03 +0000

I'm a big fan of Webstrikesolutions. I've got 4 websites hosted by them. The first year is free, then it's $80 or so a year. Very good support and uptime.

By: JGB

JGB — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:26:17 +0000

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By: Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mary Anne Mohanraj — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:52:47 +0000

Justine, I love pair.com. I used them for Strange Horizons and Clean Sheets when I was running the magazines, and they’re still hosted there (I liked them in part because even in the early days of the internet sex scare, they said they were fine with Clean Sheets’s explicit sexual content and had no interest in policing what we published). I use them currently for my personal site, the Speculative Literature Foundation, and DesiLit. Never had any problems with overloading their servers or such.

Pair’s rates are very reasonable, they’re astonishingly easy to work with, offering smart, clear helpful tech support, which has always responded very quickly to any of my questions (which are often idiot questions that I seem to have every year, such as ‘how do I move this domain over’ which is clearly documented in their help pages, but nonetheless they answer me politely and patiently). I lurve them.

I also use pairnic for my domain registration, which makes it all even easier. Easy to transfer over to that too, if you’re registered elsewhere.

By: Arachne Jericho

Arachne Jericho — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:44:16 +0000

I’m on Esosoft. Mostly because they were responsive to the time when Smart Bitches, Trashy Books came under excessive bandwidth. Esosoft didn’t shut them down—instead they scrambled to get extra servers and get SBTB stable.

They also don’t charge for bandwidth.

They’re pretty responsive, and one of the guys set up WordPress for me (since then I’ve handled the upgrades and extra installs myself), and helped out with things like extra domain names. I think they would be friendly about helping out with a domain transfer too.

I like ‘em.

By: PixelFish

PixelFish — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:09:26 +0000

I’ve been hosted on Liquidweb for a while, and like their site tools and interface. They host Dooce.com too, and I know her site gets LOTS of hits and almost never has problems. There’s a lot of options to choose from, ranging from super cheap to having your own server.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:54:17 +0000

I use ixwebhosting.com and am very pleased. The few times I have had problems, their tech support has been very responsive.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:42:53 +0000

I’ve been a very happy customer of http://www.pair.com for many years, hosting a few sites there including my main site, All the Pages are My Days.

By: kcarlile

kcarlile — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:39:05 +0000

Sounds good. I’m glad they cleared up whatever issues they might have had.