Hosting [Archive] - Kiwi Biker forums

Big Dave

21st June 2013, 22:17

I had enough of paying Domainz high prices. It was OK when I was getting good support, but that changed for the worse. They even got bolshey when I complained. Upside was they were close to achieving their claimed up time.

Anyway, I moved hosting and was seduced by the cheap prices and unlimited bandwidth at Crazy Domains. Unfortunately you get what you pay for there and the down time was horrendous. Support was pretty bad too. They almost manage to keep deleting their facebook page complaints as soon as they are posted. Not quite. We're talking in hundreds.

So I moved it all again to Go Daddy. Again it was a price and unlimited bandwidth decision. Currently I haven't been able to FTP for 3 hours.

Is there a reliable host that doesn't charge a fortune for next time I have a guts full?

Or rate yours as one to avoid.

sugilite

22nd June 2013, 00:36

Go Daddyu is notorious.
I have used greengeeks.com for my hosting and other sites I administer for 4 years. Very impressive up time and service. They have responded to me on their live support chat window within 30 seconds each time I've tried it.

Gremlin

22nd June 2013, 02:05

Local, Digiweb has always been good for us... no idea what their current rates are, but probably not the cheapest.

As you've found however, you can have cheap or quality, not both ;)

SpankMe

22nd June 2013, 08:11

Meganetserve (http://www.meganetserve.com) is where Kiwi Biker is hosted. Best server hosting company I have been with.

sil3nt

22nd June 2013, 11:59

http://www.hooplahosting.com/

NZ run but servers are based in the USA I believe. Never had any trouble with speed or uptime.

Scuba_Steve

22nd June 2013, 22:07

http://www.hooplahosting.com/

NZ run but servers are based in the USA I believe. Never had any trouble with speed or uptime.

Yea I've been using these guys for a year now & quite happy with them.

toebug

13th August 2013, 16:27

I use www.newmedia.co.nz (http://www.newmedia.co.nz). Bunch of good buggers, KB member and bike riders.....what more could one want?

3umph

13th August 2013, 21:03

I have hosting for a couple of forums through http://247hosting.co.nz

overall good...chch based servers, good price good uptime only thing lacking is the support can be a bit slow

have cheap domain names as well

sil3nt

26th August 2013, 12:02

I have hosting for a couple of forums through http://247hosting.co.nz

overall good...chch based servers, good price good uptime only thing lacking is the support can be a bit slow

have cheap domain names as wellI would avoid at all costs.

http://www.gpforums.co.nz/thread/471129/1/

cbfb

27th August 2013, 10:07

I had enough of paying Domainz high prices. It was OK when I was getting good support, but that changed for the worse. They even got bolshey when I complained. Upside was they were close to achieving their claimed up time.

Anyway, I moved hosting and was seduced by the cheap prices and unlimited bandwidth at Crazy Domains. Unfortunately you get what you pay for there and the down time was horrendous. Support was pretty bad too. They almost manage to keep deleting their facebook page complaints as soon as they are posted. Not quite. We're talking in hundreds.

So I moved it all again to Go Daddy. Again it was a price and unlimited bandwidth decision. Currently I haven't been able to FTP for 3 hours.

Is there a reliable host that doesn't charge a fortune for next time I have a guts full?

Or rate yours as one to avoid.

I use one of Net24's VPS packages to run a handful of sites.

How big is the site you're running? I might be able to stick it on my VPS and do you a better rate.