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Originally Posted by FGTH
I've been working with WebSitePros.
WebSitePros Problems:
1) WebSitePros uses 3 Web-servers each hosting approximately 300 websites each. This means that the webservers are overloaded and extremely slow to respond.
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The number of websites on a server doesn't necessarilly mean the server is overloaded. Lots of people have
business card type of websites. These are composed of 4 to 5 static pages and the average monthly bandwidth used is 0 to 5 MB. Others may have family websites where they put a few dozen pictures from their recent trip to the outskirts of the city. Such sites are visited by them, their aunt Lucy and their second cousin from Oklahoma.
According to
http://www.internet-hosting-report.com/best2003.php, one fella shares a server with over 23,447 other sites. (you'll need to scroll down and find Brian H. -
BrianHalacy.com ) He's happy. Read his review of his host. Either the other sites are puny, or the server is more powerful than you care to imagine.
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Originally Posted by FGTH
2) Customs get the bare-minimum for a web-hosting package running ensim control panel on Apache.
~250MB of disk space for a premium package and 10GB of transfer.
20 email accounts (no aliases or redirects).
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I was asked to make a small site for a company who will never even try sell anything on the internet. Total size of their site is 789KB (including pictures they provided). They will likely pay for hosting for a few years without even realizing the site is even there.
To give you an idea what I mean check out some personal sites hosted by a
local ISP. Especially pay attention to this site:
http://www.niagara.com/%7Epossum/default.html
Sure, other sites there are more elaborate and they even have pictures. But the thing is that nobody ever visits them.
I think I could host 20000 sites like that on a single Pentium 100MHz with 32 MB of RAM and on a 56.7 modem "backbone".
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Originally Posted by FGTH
Suffice to say, WebSitePros is a big rip-off with poor web-hosting offerings.
Stay away from Web Site Pros
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That might be true and a good piece of advice, but you certainly did not prove it.