[ale] I'm looking for a good shared hosting web host

[Wayne]

FutureQuest.net webhost went poof during the night and is no longer with us after 23-years in service.

My short list ended up being between InterServer.net and Pair.com .. I ended up going with the latter. Am curious what others might have done...

Wayne


On 7/3/23 7:10 AM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> Wayne said on Mon, 3 Jul 2023 06:46:01 -0700
> 
>> I am in the same position as you, Steve. I'm in Calif and have been
>> using FutureQuest for 21 years. Now, with only a few days notice, they
>> are pulling the rug out from under us. I have no interest in running
>> my own server, just shared hosting for two or three low-traffic
>> websites and, most importantly, several email accounts. I need
>> multiple POP3 accounts/aliases for domain names I already own, with
>> black-listing capabilities, catch-all addresses and good spam
>> filtering.
>>
>> We discussed this on the ALE LUG on Sunday and after further review I
>> narrowed down the list to the following (in no particular order)...
>>
>> DreamHost
>> SiteGround
>> BlueHost
>> A2Hosting
>> HostGator
>> NameCheap
>> ProtonMail
>> POBox
> 
> I've used Bluehost. They're not terrible, but I wouldn't call them
> good. Right now I'm investigating Pair.Com, and I'll let you know.
> 
>>
>> I am focusing on getting email set up first (mission critical) before
>> tackling websites. We have only a few days to get everything
>> transferred over before they turn out the lights...
> 
> If email is the mission critical thing, you might try posteo.net .
> Cheap, good, no hassles, but **BE SURE** not to lose your password,
> because no recovery is possible without it. One problem with posteo.net
> is that they charge extra for each email address, so if you have
> sales at mydomain.com and techsupport at mydomain.com and info at mydomain.com,
> you get charged for each one.
> 
> Also, have you thought about, temporarily, using an email address for
> each domain from your domain registrar?
> 
> Later you can find a full featured web host resembling Futurequest.
> Let's keep in touch.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
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