Dropbox is down

Re:Dropbox is down by Griever on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @01:45PM (#1760629)

I've had constant issues with 1and1 over the years with their less than reliable uptime. At least one of my sites (which are relatively low-traffic sites) goes down once a week for an undetermined amount of time.

Has anybody had better experiences with other hosts? I've been thinking of trying out Linode lately..

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Re:Dropbox is down by sprout on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @02:03PM (#1760715)

I just came into a position where I inherited a site running on 1and1. Yesterday their DNS went down for a half an hour, that was a fun half hour.

I've never really had problems with HostGator or asmallorange. HostGator can be slow, but it's good value for the price, and pretty clean cpanel interface on the whole. ASO has good support and seems pretty snappy. (Of course I'm using an absurd amount of disk space on HostGator, mostly for backups.)

The biggest thing with 1and1 is what a huge mess their administrative interface is. Almost half of the space is ads trying to upsell you to their other services. You would think as a paying customer they could leave me alone.

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Re:Dropbox is down by Griever on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @05:01PM (#1761476)

It's both good and bad to see others are sharing my experiences. And yes, their admin interface is absolutely horrible.

Thanks for sharing!

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Re:Dropbox is down by code_duck on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @02:21PM (#1760793)

Linode is excellent.

I did see recently that EC2 really has some competitive pricing, though - $225 a year for a 1.7GB server? That's a lot cheaper than most VPS hosting.

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Re:Dropbox is down by d2viant on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @02:17PM (#1760772)

Check out the new micro EC2 instances that Amazon AWS offers. They make hosting a small site on AWS much more affordable than before.

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Re:Dropbox is down by mickeyben on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @02:00PM (#1760687)

I experienced the same issues with 1and1 last year.

It goes down often and they took sometime few days to reply to tickets (when they reply).

I'm now happy on Linode for my own stuff and on engine yard for work-related hosting.

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Re:Dropbox is down by profquail on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @02:03PM (#1760709)

Check out ElasticHosts...I started using them a few months back to run some servers, and I've got nothing but good things to say about them (so far).

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Re:Dropbox is down by dkasper on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @03:38PM (#1761106)

Slicehost is good; I've used them for about a year now and had no problems. Very similar to Linode, but slightly more expensive.

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Re:Dropbox is down by tkahn6 on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @03:12PM (#1760990)

I just recently got on with Linode for some personal projects and to learn a bit more about administrating a server. Can't recommend it enough. What an excellent service.

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