Your first ever host

Discussion in 'Domains, Hosting and Servers' started by Michael, Sep 5, 2009.

  1. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

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    Who was your first ever hosting company and what made you move from them to the second?

    Our first host was Hostgator. What made us move from them was they closed our hosting down and said that we would need to optimise our site before they would allow us to release it to the public. They asked for our IP so we could gain access from our house only, we asked our new host for his IP and gave them that. He went in took the lot and shifted us over. We were happy with Hostgators support, I wouldnt say it was superb but it was fine.

    I am sure others have had this with them, it is a shame they oversell that much they need to request this after a forum was only running 2 months.
     
  2. jlevi

    jlevi Addict

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    My first host was/is MediaTemple - they've been great so far and I've had no need to change hosts :D
     
  3. tech

    tech Regular Member

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    byethost.com (free) and as i grew the site and then switched to JetGaming i brought their premium hosting..

    Premium Hosting
     
  4. Been Told

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    My first was a German host called Strato. This was like in 1999 or something like that.
    I left them because I moved to Scotland and wouldn't have had the time to keep the site up to date.
     
  5. Ak Worm

    Ak Worm Grand Master

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    Wow, I Did Teh Same Thing.
     
  6. Ryan

    Ryan Regular Member

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    iFuseHosting
     
  7. FullMetalBabe

    FullMetalBabe Zealot

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    000somethinghost... I forgot the name
     
  8. Soliloquy

    Soliloquy Regular Member

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    burstnet... They were awful.
     
  9. Chris

    Chris Regular Member

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    Their website is horrendous. Can't say that I'm surprised to hear about your experience with them.

    I honestly don't remember who I chose as my first provider. I was with HostGator for a month or so, but that was short-lived (and certainly not who I went with first). I'm embarrassed to say that it may have been a web host known as Zeeblo... but I'm not entirely sure. Keep in mind, this was when I first created a website, which was years ago. I was with them for about a month and then I moved to a better (commercial) provider.

    I don't think they're still up and running today.
     
  10. Ak Worm

    Ak Worm Grand Master

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    You Mean, 000webhost?
     
  11. FullMetalBabe

    FullMetalBabe Zealot

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    No, it was quicker and free, it had less specs.
     
  12. Chani

    Chani Grand Master

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    Yahoo. Big mistake.

    They still retain my old domain name, and that was quite a few years ago.
     
  13. Chris

    Chris Regular Member

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    I've heard horrendous stories in regards to their service(s). Do they still offer 'unlimited' storage?
     
  14. Chani

    Chani Grand Master

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    I don't know about that because when I had them it was something like 20 or 50MB...it was a while ago.
     
  15. PBNJ

    PBNJ Regular Member

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    I've never used another hosting company but my first personal web page was on the Buffalo Freenet in the earlier 90's.

    -Raymond
     
  16. OneUpDave

    OneUpDave Guest

    Hostgator. I switched because the phpbb forum with 10 users was always slow, and customer support was virtually nonexistent.
     
  17. Wayne Luke

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    My first ever host was UUNet. I moved because there was finally some competition in the space. Nothing like paying a few hundred dollars a year for a couple megabytes of space and a few dozen megabytes of bandwidth in the 90s.
     
  18. cheat-master30

    cheat-master30 Grand Master

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    First free host for my website, forum, or first paid host for both? The first free host I ever used was AOL's webspace service a good three or so years back. It should be pretty obvious why I left that place... lack of features and possibilities. First free forum host was Invisionfree, I left that due to it not giving enough control over the forum in question and the fact it was damn well unprofessional having s1.invisionfree.com/[forum name]. I'm still using my first paid host.
     
  19. Webmist

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    First free host was geocities and fortunecity. My first paid ;) was webauthorities.com, then Mike sold it and started nocwizard.
     
  20. Mikey

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