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[curgoth]

Does anyone have recommendations for web hosting providers, ideally somewhat local (i.e., takes CDN$)? Memento-mori.ca expired at 12:17 am this morning because my hosting provider didn't renew it. They've done this before. I'm not going to cancel my service with them right now, because it would be too much of a PITA for the people who are using memento-mori's webmail service. I sent in a ticket to the provider (Stormweb.ca) at 7am, and by 10:30am, still no repsonse from them. I'm not going to renew with them when the domain comes up for renewal next year; I am sick of this crap. So, I will be needing a new hosting company for memento-mori in about a year.

This fuckup on thier part means that it is possible that people using memento-mori.ca for e-mail may be bouncing messages; the domain name doesn't resolve right now, so none of us can recieve e-mail.

ETA: At 10:33 they finally invoiced me for the renewal. No communication about the delay, or thier fuckup, nor even anything yet which suggests that they ahve actually renewed the domain; no notice from CIRA, test e-mails still bouncing, etc. I am very unhappy with them.

ETAA: At 10:56, I figured out the source of confusion; at some point, they spun off a child company to handle their domain registration, and didn't tell me I had an account with this new company, and that renewals should/could be done through them. I now have the knowledge needed to prevent this from happening next year, but I have yet to recieve any clear communication from them to tell me this. Asshats.

Comments

[curgoth]

I get 1.5 GB of space, 30 GB bandwidth/month, and I pay $150/year for the hosting, and another $40/year for the domain name registration.

[nixtress.livejournal.com]

what's that in american $$? I think mine can beat all of those, especially the DNS, that's REALLY cheap on mine (why i switched it there from the external registrar)

[nixtress.livejournal.com]

p.s. you can pay them through paypal, so CA$ isn't a problem

[curgoth]

Right now, $1 CDN is basically $1 USD, but I don't want to use a US company because, in 5 years, that could be drastically different and I don't want to have a fluctuating exchange rate suddenly cost me a lot of money.

[nixtress.livejournal.com]

let me email my host and see if they can help you out.

[kalivor.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, costs in Canadian dollars are basically scaled up, so that they are still equivalent to two years ago, when the Canadian dollar was worth about 80 cents US - giving you a discount if you use a US provider.

So, assuming that the Canadian dollar doesn't suddenly plummet, you'll gain from using a US company so long as you don't commit to a very long (5-10 year) term.

The Free Trade Agreement has so rarely panned out well for Canadians -- wreak some economic revenge!