Category: enginehosting
EngineHosting
I have been having problems with my site hosting for close to a year now. Dreamhost had been a solid provider of hosting services before then but then things change. For me, most of the issues had to do with small mistakes which would render my site unusable. Such an incident happened a few days ago when a borked PHP config file caused the Dreamhost server (and therefore my site) to stop parsing PHP files and instead offer them for download. I wish Dreamhost the best, but they need to get their config issues reigned in to have a chance at maintaining their customer base.
I’ve moved to EngineHosting and am so far pleased with what I see. What I find refreshing is that they seem to do things a bit differently than traditional hosting companies. With most hosting companies, they offer minimal direct contact with support staff and a large control panel to allow the customer to do most of the work. With EngineHosting, they offer a modest control panel, but a very responsive staff that handles the mundane config and setup requests. In overall experience, the difference in philosophy reminds me of the difference between self- and full-service gasoline with one big difference: the hosting is the same price.
While all the pages are working, I still need to have EngineHosting support staff initiate a domain registrar transfer and setup one cron-esque process for me so the latest tracks will regularly update. Other than that, the move was not as painful as I had anticipated.
Posted: 04.17.2008