Who was your 1st provider? [non free]

Pats

There are many remembrances of 1st Provider - sweet/sour Or good/bitter experiences :D

My First Provider was C I Host @Dallas/Fort Worth - Reseller Hosting Account (Affiliate model, they didn't have bulk Reseller model that time) and that was around - wait.. long time already - let me check the archive of email used that time (now defunct :P )

Had very good experiences for 6months-1year, then moved to cPanel reseller account with another good provider found at WHT - better savings and better panel to clients.. :) Later quickly jumped to own cPanel Dedicated :P

Edit: i wanted to discuss Non-free providers.. as i also started with Tripod.. geocities.. ourfamily etc. :P

zhuanyi

hostrail :)

Taz

000webhost.com

Hate it, like it, more then 90% people here used them or other free provider before using anyone else.

Alex_LiquidHost

@zhuanyi said: hostrail :)

+1 on this. This is if talking about VPS.

Pats

@zhuanyi said: hostrail :)

quite happy with 1 word answer eh..? how long? experiences? reseller hosting/ shared hosting/vps/dedi..? :)

connercg

SurpassHosting - cPanel Reseller Account in '03

Still have service with them on that same account, but I'm in the process of moving to Hostingation.

First VPS is XEN over a Secure Dragon.

Cheesymac

Tie, I signed up for two LEBs at the same time, and still have them: Hostigation Secure Dragon

Good experiences for both.

Cheesymac

Oh yeah, excellent experiences...

jarland

First web host (not counting AOL) was mymarkdown.com. They were new back then. First VPS was with 123systems.

Jacob

First VPS xygenhosting.com

Damian

BurstNET. Completely terrible experience.

Infinity

First Shared Hosting - some Arab IIS web hosting thing, only for "selected" websites.

First VPS - HostRail, was awesome for me because it was the first VPS ever, I didn't care about speed or anything. Having said that I can't really remember, it was probably crap

First Dedicated Server - RazorServers, still have it to this date, very happy.

zhuanyi

@Pats said: quite happy with 1 word answer eh..? -LOL, I think the rest of the response is unnecessary as everyone knew the story behind it :)

how long? -had it for 10 days, but actually logged in for may be 10 minutes?

experiences? - Refer to my response to the first question :)

reseller hosting/ shared hosting/vps/dedi..? - VPS, since we are on LET :)

Alex_LiquidHost

@Damian said: BurstNET. Completely terrible experience.

I am still using them, even used them for production website. Unfortunetely I cant agree with you. For my 1 year with them - not a single outage on my node (there were some major packetloss, around 50%, 3 times so far, which ot resolved int imely manner), didn't have to contact their support even one single time and a great uptime of my node. I think I am just lucky, seeing how many people complain of them.

rgenzon

Zymic, back in 2006

fly

chicagovps

Jack

@Jacob said: First VPS xygenhosting.com

@Jacob when?

Jack

My First VPS was with Hostrail when I was running a small Shared host back in April 2011 then VoltVPS then 123 systems :)

joepie91

First free hosting: FreeWebTown.com First paid shared hosting: webruimtehosting.nl (Dutch host) First VPS: RAMHost

Damian

@Alex_LiquidHost said: I think I am just lucky, seeing how many people complain of them.

I'm actually starting to think we were on a bad node or something.

Chan

FastVPS $12/year They were quite good for the first few months but I think they're deadpooled now...

MannDude

Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod

Alex_LiquidHost

@Damian said: I'm actually starting to think we were on a bad node or something.

Yeah, this is an option as well. I really had only good experience with them so far. Event he last time I tested the IO speed it was well above 150MB/s. The network is over 500mbps as well.

ihatetonyy

First free: Tripod. First free that wasn't awful: Panther Hosting, now defunct First VPS: BurstNET, quite good.

ErawanArifNugroho

My first shared hosting : Lovinghosting.com in 2004 My first vps provider: NameCheap, they're still $25 or something at that time, providing XEN HyperVM with 256MB memory in 2004

ErawanArifNugroho

I just see no "Thank's" button now. Where it goes?

Jack

@ErawanArifNugroho said: just see no "Thank's" button now. Where it goes?

Here

jkr1711

First shared: FreeHostingNoAds First VPS: Volumedrive (oh dear, good ol' Scranton) First Dedi: Kimsufi 2G (never used for anything, just a few file transfers/backups)

Nick_A

HostGator for shared, reseller, VPS.

First dedi was HiVelocity. That lasted about one month...

KuJoe

First VPS: HostV/Citrex

Wasn't bad. I learned A LOT. :)

Dec 23, 2007 - April 2008

-m

Patrick

First VPS: WiredTree (A bit of a killer waste back then lol)