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[WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
edited August 2006 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">EVER</div>I don't know how many other people out there host a few web sites. But I've been doing it for years and am always on the hunt for a better deal. I think I've finally found the best deal around (short of "knowing a guy").

<a href="http://www.servage.net" target="_blank">http://www.servage.net</a>
75gb of storage space
1.1 Terabytes of transfer a month. That's right TERABYTES. It comes out to 37GB per DAY.
Unlimited domains, MySQL, .htaccess files, ftp access, even email hosting. I know that's all I've ever asked from a host.

Plus, if you host 6-7 sites like I do, and currently use a cpanel based site, you may be familiar with the ultra-retarded addon domain and subdomain filesystem layout. Totally not a problem with servage since you get to tell it what folder to host which domain from.

The only drawback, and it's a small one for me, is that you don't have access to any really good stats programs. You have to use their custom webstats stuff.

All of this, and it's only $7.50/month.

I recently switched over when the news about Portal (and thusly Narbacular Drop) came out last month. And they seriously let you use the whole 37GB/Day without any hassle. Although they did shut me down each day when I hit 37GB, but for $7.50 a month, that's fine by me.
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  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    well, I shall throw my 2 cents in here as well.

    I currently use www.dreamhost.com (as do many guys in IRC).
    20 gb storage +160mb/week
    1 TB bandwidth +8gb/week
    $10/month.

    Yes, that means the bandwidth and storage increase as you stay with them. After a year, I shall be up to about 1.5TB and such. Now, the part I really like is they don't limit the bandwidth per day. I mirror'ed the Empires mod release and did 980gb over 3 days, and they didn't care at all <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • coriscoris Join Date: 2003-07-08 Member: 18034Members, Constellation
    I've mostly heared negative things about DreamHost, such as bad service, downtime, slow servers etc etc. I am considering getting them anyway, have you had any problems so far?
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  • KungFuDiscoMonkeyKungFuDiscoMonkey Creator of ns_altair 日本福岡県 Join Date: 2003-03-15 Member: 14555Members, NS1 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos
    There are times when it's a bit sluggish but I've been pretty happy with Dreamhost
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  • radforChristradforChrist USA Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6871Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Subnautica Playtester
    I use HostGator and I've had Zero problems. Although I am always on the lookout for better hosting. I may look into this, thanks Them!
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1565442:date=Aug 14 2006, 11:08 AM:name=radforChrist)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(radforChrist @ Aug 14 2006, 11:08 AM) [snapback]1565442[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I use HostGator and I've had Zero problems. Although I am always on the lookout for better hosting. I may look into this, thanks Them!
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    I switched to these guys directly from using hostgator previously. I'm certainly happy with the upgrade thus far.
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  • radforChristradforChrist USA Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6871Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Subnautica Playtester
    Just signed up, I'll give it a shot.
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    Man, I wish there was a deal like this with a host that allows ASP.NET... I'd really like to experiment with it, rather than spend time learning PHP/MySQL.

    Great find, though. I've been with <a href="http://www.fuitadnet.com" target="_blank">FuitadNET</a> for a while now, and they're pretty reliable, but I'll keep this place in mind. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
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  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    i needed root on my own box (shared hosts keep complaining that i'm using too much cpu/ram/whatever) so i went with <a href="http://theplanet.com/" target="_blank">The Planet</a>
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  • coriscoris Join Date: 2003-07-08 Member: 18034Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1565493:date=Aug 16 2006, 07:31 AM:name=CForrester)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CForrester @ Aug 16 2006, 07:31 AM) [snapback]1565493[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Man, I wish there was a deal like this with a host that allows ASP.NET... I'd really like to experiment with it, rather than spend time learning PHP/MySQL.

    Great find, though. I've been with <a href="http://www.fuitadnet.com" target="_blank">FuitadNET</a> for a while now, and they're pretty reliable, but I'll keep this place in mind. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
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    You can probably run it locally on your own machine for testing and developing purposes.
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1565595:date=Aug 18 2006, 10:39 AM:name=coris)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(coris @ Aug 18 2006, 10:39 AM) [snapback]1565595[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    You can probably run it locally on your own machine for testing and developing purposes.
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    Yep, Visual Web Developer comes with a local server. But I was hoping to make a little browser-based game, or something. I can't exactly host that off of my own computer. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    Update.....
    Servage just bumped me up to 2100GB of monthly transfer. 70GB a friggin day.

    w00000000000000000000000t
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  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    Wow, deja-vu. Dreamhost also bumped our bandwidth up to 2TB on account signup, add in their auto increasing per week, and Im up to 2.4 TB/month. bonus: no daily limits!

    And over 200GB of storage. Glad to see webhosts all around are actually giving out decent storage and bandwidth now.
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1572834:date=Nov 2 2006, 11:12 PM:name=Comprox)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Comprox @ Nov 2 2006, 11:12 PM) [snapback]1572834[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Wow, deja-vu. Dreamhost also bumped our bandwidth up to 2TB on account signup, add in their auto increasing per week, and Im up to 2.4 TB/month. bonus: no daily limits!

    And over 200GB of storage. Glad to see webhosts all around are actually giving out decent storage and bandwidth now.
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    Oh yeah? Well Dreamhost turns you fruity. So there. How about them apples?
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1572829:date=Nov 3 2006, 01:47 AM:name=T_h_e_m)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(T_h_e_m @ Nov 3 2006, 01:47 AM) [snapback]1572829[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Update.....
    Servage just bumped me up to 2100GB of monthly transfer. 70GB a friggin day.

    w00000000000000000000000t
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    Here, too. And I think they changed their main page, so it's a standard thing now...

    Oh, I guess I should mention that I signed up with them a little while ago. Excellent service, so far.
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  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    I've been on DreamHost for about a year and a half now and love them. There has been some downtime but it is very rare, I really haven't needed any support so I can't tell you much about that, but I'm very pleased otherwise.
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  • radforChristradforChrist USA Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6871Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Subnautica Playtester
    I've enjoyed Servage so far, except my uploading to the site is terribly slow...
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  • tigersmithtigersmith Join Date: 2004-11-11 Member: 32749Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Supporter
    <!--quoteo(post=1572942:date=Nov 3 2006, 09:45 AM:name=radforChrist)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(radforChrist @ Nov 3 2006, 09:45 AM) [snapback]1572942[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I've enjoyed Servage so far, except my uploading to the site is terribly slow... <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    how slow?
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  • spinviperspinviper Join Date: 2003-05-08 Member: 16151Members
    edited November 2006
    <!--quoteo(post=1572829:date=Nov 3 2006, 01:47 AM:name=T_h_e_m)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(T_h_e_m @ Nov 3 2006, 01:47 AM) [snapback]1572829[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Update.....
    Servage just bumped me up to 2100GB of monthly transfer. 70GB a friggin day.

    w00000000000000000000000t
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    Does it have Cpanel/Fantastico? Website says that Servage provides a "Web Based" control panel, but does not specify which. Thanks in advance.
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  • TheDestroyerTheDestroyer Tooobah Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18123Members, Constellation
    Did anyone ever try this hosting out?

    I've been using it, and recently, I've been having issues. =/ Anyone else?
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1585053:date=Dec 6 2006, 07:44 PM:name=TheDestroyer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TheDestroyer @ Dec 6 2006, 07:44 PM) [snapback]1585053[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Did anyone ever try this hosting out?

    I've been using it, and recently, I've been having issues. =/ Anyone else?
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    Yep, I've been using it for almost a couple of months now. Still going strong. No major problems so far. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

    Just wish I could get access to the raw access logs, though.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    As my portfolio is HLRelated I get uh unlimited webspace/bandwidth with <a href="http://www.hlgaming.com" target="_blank">Half-Life Gaming</a>. For the past year or so I haven't updated the site and just host random files, they don't care at all to be honest.
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  • Soul_RiderSoul_Rider Mod Bean Join Date: 2004-06-19 Member: 29388Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue
    We have been using servage and they were generally good, but their servers are overcrowded, and it took anything upto 25 secs per page to open, it became very frustrating for us (bearing in mind though we are in the uk). We have just changed to freeola, and our pages load in about a second. This isn't just down to across the pond travels, as this website is hosted across the pond and loads after a second or 2. Just beware, the service starts off very well, then you end up with congested boxes, and then it isn't quite so good..
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  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    I use a dynamic dns address and an old computer that I set up next to me for a server. The only sucky part is that my isp blocks incoming connections on port 80, but thats really not THAT big of an issue.
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  • ZydecoZydeco Join Date: 2005-03-06 Member: 43794Members, NS1 Playtester
    Alot of transfer a month is cool, but im guessing both dreamhost and servage comes with loasy speeds and bandwith. It's usually the case, but mayby im wrong.
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  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    <!--quoteo(post=1585410:date=Dec 7 2006, 02:21 PM:name=Zydeco)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zydeco @ Dec 7 2006, 02:21 PM) [snapback]1585410[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Alot of transfer a month is cool, but im guessing both dreamhost and servage comes with loasy speeds and bandwith. It's usually the case, but mayby im wrong.
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    Can't say for savage, but I know dreamhost doesn't follow that trend. I get pretty good speeds off them (~400kb/s) and the site managed to do about 1.1TB of transfer in just over a day without any problems when I mirror'ed the Empires mod release.
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  • Browser_ICEBrowser_ICE Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6944Members
    Funny, when I go to visit servage, I see Canada written in the upper right corner. So I go "Oh good, in my own country!". So it got me interested. But then when I wanted to see where they are exactly, all I see is the following physical addresses :

    Servage Hosting
    Suite# 1479
    14781 Memorial Drive
    Houston, TX 77079 - USA

    Servage GmbH
    Im Grund 9
    D-24939 Flensburg
    Germany

    Servage Hosting
    Suite 2228, 9 Tanbark Circuit
    Werrington Downs
    NSW 2747 - Australia

    Servage ApS
    Oestergade 22
    6600 Vejen
    Denmark



    So what's with the Canada thing then <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />??
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1586694:date=Dec 10 2006, 01:35 PM:name=Browser_ICE)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Browser_ICE @ Dec 10 2006, 01:35 PM) [snapback]1586694[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Funny, when I go to visit servage, I see Canada written in the upper right corner. So I go "Oh good, in my own country!". So it got me interested. But then when I wanted to see where they are exactly, all I see is the following physical addresses :

    Servage Hosting
    Suite# 1479
    14781 Memorial Drive
    Houston, TX 77079 - USA

    Servage GmbH
    Im Grund 9
    D-24939 Flensburg
    Germany

    Servage Hosting
    Suite 2228, 9 Tanbark Circuit
    Werrington Downs
    NSW 2747 - Australia

    Servage ApS
    Oestergade 22
    6600 Vejen
    Denmark
    So what's with the Canada thing then <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />??
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    Heh, I get that, too. They're probably just customizing the page/prices based on your country (which they can guess pretty accurately by your IP.)

    I suspect that their main office is the office in either Germany or Denmark, because their FAQs and documentation have a hint of non-native English writing to them. Like the guy who wrote them has English as a second language.
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    edited December 2006
    <!--quoteo(post=1585261:date=Dec 7 2006, 06:13 AM:name=Soul_Rider)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Soul_Rider @ Dec 7 2006, 06:13 AM) [snapback]1585261[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    We have been using servage and they were generally good, but their servers are overcrowded, and it took anything upto 25 secs per page to open, it became very frustrating for us (bearing in mind though we are in the uk). We have just changed to freeola, and our pages load in about a second. This isn't just down to across the pond travels, as this website is hosted across the pond and loads after a second or 2. Just beware, the service starts off very well, then you end up with congested boxes, and then it isn't quite so good..
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    <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":0" border="0" alt="wow.gif" />

    Not true for me. Been using servage since July for <a href="http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com" target="_blank">nuclearmonkeysoftware.com</a> and have absolutely no speed problems.
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  • TheDestroyerTheDestroyer Tooobah Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18123Members, Constellation
    Hmm, didn't know they had a center here in Houston. =/
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    <a href="http://www.servage.net/?coupon=CUST21863" target="_blank">Servage</a> got yet another upgrade.

    310GB space. 3000 GB monthly transfer. That's 100 Gigs of transfer every single day.

    How about them apples comprox?
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