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Re: Purley Hosting

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In article <5263ee5f49news@highpath.net>, Chris Bell
<news@highpath.net> wrote:

> Please can I put in a good word for Purley Hosting?  Neil
> works hard to provide a professional yet personal
> service. He's friendly, honest and approachable and he
> understands RiscOS.

Which is why he hosts three of my five websites.

>  He bends structures to accomodate individual
> requirements and works long hours to sort out the
> inevitable problems that crop up from time to time.

> And yes, things occasionally go wrong.  And he
> occasionally has a weekend off, no doubt crossing his
> fingers while he's away.  Bigger companies can afford to
> employ people 24 hours a day, but do they really provide
> a better service in practice?  In my experience they
> usually don't and they're usually very difficult to
> communicate with when things do go wrong.

> I get the feeling that some of the criticism of Purley
> Hosting comes from people who have never tried to run a
> small business themselves.

Not me!

But there have been a number of outages recently - maybe,
quite possibly, it has been just bad luck.

But particulalrly at this time of year, peak season for
people to be researching and booking holidays, to find that
three of ones websites are inaccessible is very frustrating.
It also creates a poor image of my business, if my websites
are unavailable.

> Take it from me - it's not easy. Maybe we should be
> saying thank-you to Neil for providing such an excellent
> alternative to those big, impersonal companies, and be a
> little more understanding when he has to sort out the
> problems.

Be honest, the choice is not just between 'big, impersonal'
and the 'one-man band' like Neil, me and, perhaps yourself.
There are intermediates.

Orpheus is, I believe, a 'two-man band'; recently their
service has been much more reliable, but it has always been
much harder to get quick answers to questions from Orpheus
than from Purley Hosting, and they do not offer any kind of
Control Panel. Paul Vigay told me that his way of splitting
stuff between various servers precluded the use of a control
panel.

Personally, I split my hosting between Orpheus and Purley
Hosting on the 'not all eggs in one basket' principle.

I have used other hosting firms too, in the past, but a few
years ago moved from them to Purley Hosting for all the
reasons you mention, but I am beginning to re-consider.

-- 
Russell
http://www.russell-hafter-holidays.co.uk
Russell Hafter Holidays         E-mail to enquiries at our domain
Need a hotel? <http://www.hrs.com/?client=en__blue&customerId=416873103>

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Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-18 16:50 +0000
  Re: Purley Hosting Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2012-02-18 17:17 +0000
    Re: Purley Hosting Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-02-18 18:21 +0000
      Re: Purley Hosting Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2012-02-18 19:45 +0000
        Re: Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-18 20:36 +0000
          Re: Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-18 20:49 +0000
            Re: Purley Hosting Chris Hughes <news@noonehere.co.uk> - 2012-02-18 21:26 +0000
              Re: Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-18 21:56 +0000
              Re: Purley Hosting Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-02-18 22:04 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Chris Hughes <news@noonehere.co.uk> - 2012-02-18 23:03 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Chris Bell <news@highpath.net> - 2012-02-19 11:14 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Chris Hughes <news@noonehere.co.uk> - 2012-02-19 11:55 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-02-19 12:43 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-02-19 14:16 +0100
                Re: Purley Hosting Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-02-19 13:53 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-19 12:16 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-02-19 12:29 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2012-02-19 12:42 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-19 11:08 +0000
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                Re: Purley Hosting Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2012-02-20 13:32 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-02-20 14:35 +0000

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