How Much Do You Pay to Host Your Website?

DosGusanos asks: "I was curious how much people around the U.S. and around the world pay for hosting. Obviously size in cabinets/rack units/square feet, included features such as bandwidth, UPS/generator, management, etc. factor in. The configuration I am particularly interested in is three machines, one www, one search, and one database. The machines would be hooked up to a T1 and networked to one another over Ethernet. Anyone paying for colo or hosting in this same ballpark? How happy/upset are you with your provider?"

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Speakeasy.net Sucks

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Speakeasy Sucks. They have quite probably the worst customer service I have ever seen. I was stunned that a company so dysfunctional was able to remain in business. I mean, they hit every bad point from a customer's viewpoint: billing errors, lying customer service reps, service not in line with contract, etc. etc. etc. It sickens me now that they put forward this face of being geek friendly, "great service at a premium!" well, I was willing to pay the premium but instead of good customer service I got screwed. It really says something when the local Bell telephone offshoot has a better track record of service...

Putting it more bluntly, I ended up tossing about three hundred bucks down the drain on them. For that much, I could have spent some quality time with a hooker or two, and then at least getting screwed would have been a good thing. :-( As it is, I'll be going with Crime Warner. I know they're going to suck, but at least I'm prepared for it, rather than going into it with high expectations like I did with speakeasy.

I'd post the whole sordid saga here, but it's really fairly long and only marginally related to the topic at hand. Suffice to say that hosting your websites at home isn't neccessarily a bad idea, just don't expect to get anything but hassle from those seattle-ite latte-slurping asshounds at speakeasy. I post this here and not anonymously in the hopes that I can save other geeks like me the trouble of dealing with them.

Huh...

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WTF is your problem with Hillary Clinton? You anti-clintonites are so damn pathetic its funny.