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Subject: Re: wiki hosting

Author:
Kirby Lambert

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Date Posted: 22:37:14 11/13/12 Tue
In reply to: Michael Slade 's message, "Re: wiki hosting" on 20:49:49 11/13/12 Tue

Personaly I am against Godaddy because of their history of domain hijacking.

Kirby

>Hmm-
>
>Right now Godaddy has on sale a basic hosting package
>for $4.24/month (36 month commitment) which includes
>Mediawiki 1.19.2 .
>
>While Godaddy can be bothersome I have found their
>customer service people to be very helpful.
>
>
>
>>Looks like the wiki is back :-)
>>
>>I am apprehensive about the current hosts' stability,
>>in view of the recent outage, though. For the time
>>being, I took a more recent backup.
>>
>>>I've been more active in the wiki up to the past few
>>>months, when I essentially dropped from the fade of
>>>the earth:-(
>>>
>>>HOWEVER, I do web site design and also resell hosting
>>>services. If we can come up with $10/mo, I have a
>>>rock solid hosting service I use - pair.com. Since I
>>>resell several client accounts and pay quarterly, the
>>>net cost (at my cost) would be somewhat less than
>>>$10/mo.
>>>
>>>I would be willing to kick in $1 (or maybe more) /
>>>month if there are enough others who would also
>>>contribute. I would set up the hosting account and
>>>make the ftp password available to Mike or whoever
>and
>>>provide monthly traffic reports (it's automated, so I
>>>don't need to do much).
>>>
>>>I only ask that someone else would step up to being
>>>the treasurer of the operation.
>>>
>>>Any interest? Contact me at my gmail address; I'm
>>>switching computers and don't know when I'll be back
>>>on the forum

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Author:
Deadly Ernest
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Date Posted: 18:30:41 11/15/12 Thu

When I first glanced at this post I first read it as - .... Godaddy has on sale a basic hostage package for ...

In light of the other reply, I now wonder how much more accurate my first reading was.

BTW This is the first I've heard of any issues with Godaddy, but then being in Australia I don't see much about them.

Ernest

>Hmm-
>
>Right now Godaddy has on sale a basic hosting package
>for $4.24/month (36 month commitment) which includes
>Mediawiki 1.19.2 .
>
>While Godaddy can be bothersome I have found their
>customer service people to be very helpful.
>
>
>
>>Looks like the wiki is back :-)
>>
>>I am apprehensive about the current hosts' stability,
>>in view of the recent outage, though. For the time
>>being, I took a more recent backup.
>>
>>>I've been more active in the wiki up to the past few
>>>months, when I essentially dropped from the fade of
>>>the earth:-(
>>>
>>>HOWEVER, I do web site design and also resell hosting
>>>services. If we can come up with $10/mo, I have a
>>>rock solid hosting service I use - pair.com. Since I
>>>resell several client accounts and pay quarterly, the
>>>net cost (at my cost) would be somewhat less than
>>>$10/mo.
>>>
>>>I would be willing to kick in $1 (or maybe more) /
>>>month if there are enough others who would also
>>>contribute. I would set up the hosting account and
>>>make the ftp password available to Mike or whoever
>and
>>>provide monthly traffic reports (it's automated, so I
>>>don't need to do much).
>>>
>>>I only ask that someone else would step up to being
>>>the treasurer of the operation.
>>>
>>>Any interest? Contact me at my gmail address; I'm
>>>switching computers and don't know when I'll be back
>>>on the forum