[consulting] Client Hosting...

[Brian Vuyk]

That's interesting that we could have such opposite experiences. Like I 
said above, they have been rock solid here, and their support has been 
top notch, both the support I've gotten, and the support my clients have 
gotten through their white-label support services.

Brian

On 04/02/2009 10:18 PM, Shai Gluskin wrote:
> I quit with Mosso in July after about 4 months. Maybe they are ready 
> for prime time now. Back then they weren't. Latency was a huge factor 
> in my sites. The control panels were horribly buggy (their "legacy" 
> one and their beta which was a totally rewritten one... both way buggy.)
>
> It become clear to me after a while that what was holding this "cloud" 
> together was a LOT of code that they were writing themselves. It made 
> me really appreciate a LAMP stack running the exact same code as a 
> gazillion other hosts with Cpanel also running on a gazillion other boxes.
>
> After going from shared to VPS to "cloud" I finally broke down and got 
> a dedicated box from Inmotionhosting.com. I'm not running any sites 
> that are likely to get slashdotted or are particularlly high volume... 
> so the advantage of the cloud wasn't really that important. It's just 
> great to have shell access again, I can't believe I lived without it. 
> The box is fully supported (and so not cheap), but it's been 
> incredably reliable and easy. And I sleep good at night knowing that 
> any unused CPU, RAM, disk space etc... is just sitting there, unused. 
> They run SuPHP which takes just a little bit of learning some minor 
> differences.
>
> That's my experience.
>
> I host most of my clients' sites and charge them $300/year for a very 
> basic site to $900/year with CiviCRM and/or is much more complex. That 
> includes security upgrades for modules and core. I'm not running a 
> multisite set-up. Each site has its own Cpanel account.
>
> I don't want to troubleshoot a shared hosting situation for my 
> clients. My clients are small and want one stop shopping. By hosting 
> myself in a really stable environment I reduce a lot of variables and 
> make the hosting part bearable. I explain this to my clients and they 
> get it, even though they are small. The ones who push me on $100/year 
> hosting, I don't want them as clients.
>
> Shai
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com 
> <mailto:brian at brianvuyk.com>> wrote:
>
>     Cardell,
>
>     I've been using Mosso for a bit now, and I wouldn't hesitate to
>     recommend them, as long as you are aware of a few minor issues:
>
>     1. There is no shell access to the accounts.
>     2. Currently, Java isn't supported, so you won't be able to run
>     something like Solr
>     3. You have to uncomment the 'RewriteBase    /' line in .htaccess
>     before clean urls work.
>
>     On the upside, they have had 100% uptime since I've started with
>     them, and both my clients' and my own sites have not slowed down
>     regardless of load.
>
>     Brian
>
>
>     On 04/02/2009 07:00 PM, Cardell Orrin wrote:
>>
>>     I’m wondering if anyone has any recommendations on hosting for
>>     multiple client websites. I’ve used shared hosting with a
>>     reseller account for some clients, but have been thinking about
>>     something more robust….with VPS or cloud. I was looking at Mosso,
>>     but have seen mixed responses on their handling of Drupal. I do
>>     like their ability to bill clients, so if someone knows of
>>     something better that has that option, I’d be interested in that too.
>>
>>     I know this is discussed in some other places, but I was hoping
>>     to get the perspective of other consultants.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     Cardell
>>
>>     ---
>>
>>     Cardell Orrin
>>
>>     Linx Consulting
>>
>>     901.210.2161
>>
>>     www.consultlinx.com <http://www.consultlinx.com>
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