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What NT Web Hosts Are Good Web Hosts?
CritterNYC asks: "Anyone know of a good NT Web host? I've had 3 different hosting providers over the last 3 years and had horrible experiences with all three: downtime, unpatched servers, e-mail problems, security issues, configuration issues. Even tried one of the 'top-rated' hosts and it was even worse. Most of my problems can be traced to poor support. (I've administered NT and know what it's capable of.) I have a client store written in ASP and SQL7 to take live soon and am having trouble figuring out where to put it. Any suggestions?"
The company I work for, ServerVault , does secure, managed hosting. Check the link for the specs, but we work closely with clients to do what they need done. Super secure and super redundant. We can put up a box to your specs., and maintain it at whatever level you like -- hands-off, or watch it like a hawk and apply every patch that comes out (this last isn't the usual case, esp. for customers running custom apps as these fixes usually require a reboot, and often break those custom apps). It's up to the customer what level of support they want. We have lots of multi-OS expertise in house, 24x7 monitoring, etc.
Seriously, not just standard Slashdot Microsoft bashing. Look at Netcraft's uptime statistics. At the time of writing none of the top fifty most reliable sites are running on NT. That's no accident: NT just isn't robust enough for this sort of application.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.