Looks like I may have found them!

Thanks Dave!

One Eyed View

The other company I really have a lot of respect for is HostGator. I’ve spoken to HostGator owner Brent numerous times on the phone and he’s done an amazing job of building his company off The Planet backbone. I’ve watched HostGator go through all the growing pains but they’ve emerged as one of the best in the business.

As far as Domain Registrations are concerned, GoDaddy is the only choice in my opinion. I’ve registered thousands of domains through them over the years for myself, friends, family and clients and I’ve never had a bad experience with them ever.

I was initially impressed with Gossimer, however, my opinion has dwindled and I’ll probably just bypass them and go direct to Hurricane Electric (he.net) for my next server. I wanted to be on that backbone because right now I have load balancing and redundancy between Florida, Atlanta, Dallas and Virginia but I’d like to tap into California because having access points on only the MAE-East and MAE-Central without any on the MAE-West can cause slower response to the West Coasts huge market of internet traffic. I’ve had a few of my forum moderators and business partners say the network was slow during peak hours but they’re all on the West Coast and to get faster site loading means setting strategic network access points.

Plus, I’m ramping up my blog and forum hosting business and I really need reliable and high-end bandwidth if I’m going to be reselling it because the last thing I need is my cellphone getting “The server is down” text messages at 3am ;-)

I recommend any bloggers contact Dave for his private Wordpress hosting and he only charges $5 per month !!!!

Thanks,
Marcus Washington

I have to backtrack from my initial excitement about Gossimer. After reading your post, I explored their site and found that their hosting plans just don’t compare to GoDaddy. As a web developer, I need more than one MySQL database on an economy hosting plan and certainly more than five for a “Luxury” hosting account.

However, I do understand that they may offer better more personalized support, especially where their affiliate program is concerned and I may give that a chance, but I’m having a hard time getting past the hosting costs.

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I always enjoy coming to this site because you offer great tips and advice for people like me who can always use a few good pointers. I will be getting my friends to pop around fairly soon.