On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:38 AM Kevin Cozens via talk <
talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2020-07-29 11:05 a.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> Finding a reasonable Canadian web hosting company is proving to be more than
> somewhat challenging.??
What is proving challenging about finding a "reasonable" Canadian web
hosting company? What do you mean by "reasonable"?
Had the 'joy' of signing up with one shared web hosting company.
Pricing was galactically different between initial and renewal, service was 'interesting'
and they got to playing little games - - - - - so I am not looking for cheap but I do
want a company where the servers are in Canada (Canadian legislation is enough of
a dog's breakfast never mind dealing with another area's as well) and where they
actually listen to questions instead of sending you to a knowledge base that is mostly
some 5 years out of date! (I was being told that php 5.4 (I think that was the version - -
- - - it wasn't even the last of the 5.x series) was plenty useful when php itself had
deprecated anything before 7.0 some 2 years before. I'm not into the latest and greatest
as I want rock solid working but it would be like insisting on running Win NT 3.5 and
calling it current!)
I don't expect to get a free lunch for signing up but I don't want to see that as a returning
customer that I'm paying 4 or 5 times more than I did starting out - - - - that's not good
long term thinking to me and tells me a lot about the company. Wasn't what they said
when I asked about that before signup but having been burned well once - - - - I'm
just a bit gun shy.
Regards