The senior technical consultant of Lunarpages contacted me today and willing to provide me direct access to SQL Server. They have promised me to do some specific changes so that i can upload 30 GB of database without any interruption.

I will keep this updated since they have contacted me after reading your post (May be)

Thanks!

Here is the case, i am referring. I think you can help me out.

- I am developing a Price comparison store for my Michigan based client where I needed windows hosting. I researched and found too many positive reviews about lunarpages.

- Later when I started migrating data, the SQL server stopped as it has only 800 MB space, where as Lunarpages committed me unlimited SQL.

- I have extracted data from CJ, Linkshare and several similar merchants which is approximately 30 GB space in my local machine. This will keep on growing every month.

- Every day I call them and they it’s unlimited space but you need to reconfigure your enterprise manager settings.

I failed the deadline just because the hosting and it’s killing confidence level as this is 10th day I have no clue what to do.

I can migrate from Lunarpages at this stage because my developers need to work again. We are also using a test domain with them where I am uploading my daily development work.

This is something unbelievable but true. I have over 15 years of marketing experience and this is 7nth year of full time exposure with internet and hosting and I am sorry to say that I never came across such a bad service.

I don’t know about Dreamhost. Check out these reviews.

http://www.webhostingjury.com/reviews/DreamHost

I’m already having with issues with Go Daddy with them saying my mailbox is full when people are trying to send me emails.

I will look into Dreamhost because I can see now that Go Daddy is not going to work.

Thanks for the compliments.

For cheap shared hosting that isn’t gonna throw a fit if you “go over”, I’d recommend Dreamhost. When you go over in traffic or CPU usage, they put you in “limbo”, which is just a slow-ass server, but your site is still up and kinda-sorta runs.

Then they work with you to figure out how to make the most of your plan, i.e. what might be causing the problem. If it’s traffic, there’s not much they can do, but if it’s something else like CPU utilization, they’ll help you reconfigure your site for better efficiency.

I’d also recommend getting far, far away from SQL if possible. A lot of blogs I’ve been seeing and working with are moving to Mephisto Blog (mephistoblog.com) which is basically a Ruby on Rails app. RoR is scary easy to learn, and you can have basic things running really fast and efficient. What took pages of PHP takes a few lines of Ruby. I’m not a programmer, but part of our site runs on RoR and I picked up the basics in about a week. Enough to put up a blog if I was inclined. And it plays nice with SQL, making implementation real easy.

Oh, and the usual, first-time-poster-longtime-reader BS…keep up the good work!

I would hope the government has bigger fish to fry than me. But thanks for reading!

genewitch,

As I was researching host monster, I came across a few items that made me hesitate to go with them.

http://hostmonstersucks.blogspot.com/2007/02/story.html

http://www.ozzu.com/hosting-forum/stay-away-from-hostmonster-t64978.html

http://www.vistainter.com/reviews/H/hostmonster.com/

http://thenavap.net/2008/06/09/hostmonster-sucks/

I used to host through Go Daddy and I left them because at the time, I found some of their tech people to be incompetent.

But they never knocked my site off line, they never canceled my account without warning, they were never condescending towards me and they do have 24/7 tech service, unlike LP, which only claims they do.

And in the last few days dealing with them, I’ve called them a multitude of times in dealing with different issues trying to get my sites up and they’ve been very helpful and patient with me – even though they always try to get me to commit to a two-year deal.

I’m going month to month for now and I really hope Go Daddy works out for me.

The other reason I went with GD is that I had already purchased my domains through them, so I figured it would be more efficient if I can have all my website services under one company.

They promise unlimited bandwidth, and when i called them, they assured me that when they said unlimited bandwidth, they meant it.

I too was afraid that you were shut down by some action against you.. but i am glad that your back up.

Your insights on the main subject to me are a comfort. and to me is interesting.