I'm looking for a cheap webhost with PHP4 and MySQL for my upcoming site, gamesync.net...

Any current phpwebhosting.com customers here to comment on their services? I read over at their site that they have improved on the service and connections as well...

I would really appreciate if anyone here hosting with them could give me their comments on this webhost. I read all the archived forum threads regarding this webhost, but I kinda want the latest update of comments (maybe their service improved, degraded, etc...)

I just wanted a cheap (10-12 bucks per month) webhosting account with a large diskspace and bandwidth. I know that if I pay peanuts, I get monkeys, but heck, gotta live with it... 🙂

    Well I recentnly (two weeks ago) took out an account with phpwebhosting.com, and so far I've been very impressed. They give you decent admin tools, and for those things that you need to request them to do, they have been prompt and efficient.

    I spent quite a few months looking around the net for a host, and I couldn't find one that could match the package that phpwebhosting offer.

    And the web based support system is a godsend for me, because I'm the uk and a phone based support system would have cost me a fortune.

    Hope this helps.

    Nick.

      Anyone could give me a comparison of both PHPwebhosting.com and addr.com webhost? In terms of service/response/connections/speed/technical support... not the features, features I can see from their site and compare... 🙂

        Wow just reading up on phpwebhosting, they sound pretty good.
        I like that they limit sites on a server, and also seem to be good about hd space and bandwidth.
        So unless you are going to use any ecommerce stuff which addr has miva to do easy credit card transactions phpwebhosting sounds good.

          Of course if you should be able to code ccvs hooks anyway, and you can just follow the article on this site for CyberCash connectivity. :-)

            Is phpwebhosting.com set up for cyber cash? I didn't see it anywhere.

              I am a current phpwebhosting.com client and my domain is hosted on their servers. www.tripleauction.com

              Unfortunatly they just had a complete hard drive crash and I lost all my data because they hired a backup company that did not backup the backup.

              I would recommend this company but they do not have phone support. At first this seemed shady but that is why their prices are so low. They have been really fair on helping me get the infomation back that I lost but I am a little pissed off at the fact that the company they hired to do a backup failed to make a backup of my server. Here is a copy of the email support. Thanks

              James
              In January 2001, we made a new commitment of having only 125 users per
              server (most hosting companies have anywhere from 400-800 users per server).
              As the hard disk failure had already caused at least some degree of downtime
              for all users of the twain server, we felt this was the best time to
              completely move all our users from that server to two new servers. Half of
              twain has been moved to cobble.phpwebhosting.com and the other half to
              gravel.phpwebhosting.com. Both of these servers are brand-new and have
              processors at least twice as fast as the twain server and nearly three times
              the hard disk space. While we would have preferred to make this change under
              less stressful circumstances we feel that you will be quite pleased with the
              increased performance of the new server.

              Regarding the hard disk failure we are happy to report that approximately 70%
              of our users had only a few hours of downtime and 100% data recovery. In some
              cases you may not have ever been aware that there was a problem at all. Even
              if this is the case, please continue reading this message as there are some
              important configuration details that all users will need to at least verify
              and in most cases reconfigure.

              The bad news is that at least part of the backup could not be restored
              properly. We contract out the backup of our servers to an third party who
              operates an on-site SCSI disk array to backup our servers (much more reliable
              than tape backup). We are still trying to get a straight answer from our
              backup provider as to why their service failed (any proper backup plan
              should have AT LEAST one "backup of the backup" for situations exactly like
              this where the primary backup had failures). At this point, to be frank, we
              are holding out little hope that data not restored by now will ever by
              restored. This is of course a very upsetting event for both you and
              phpwebhosting.com alike.

                Yes, They over excellent service with lots of features. And the price is perfect. Plus you can add your own jobs to the cron!

                  Daniel.

                  Yes you can, they give you telnet/ssh access and you get to use all the 'normal' *nix tools.

                  I specifically asked if cron could be used before I signed up with them.

                  James.

                  Sorry to hear about your loss of data; like you I've found their support helpful and forthcoming, and from your post very honest.

                    To be honest I don't know if it has been compiled in on phpwebhosting. But then, you really want to use a bigger company like WorldPay or DataCash. In which case you can get the interface specs off their site and write the hooks into the code yourself.

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