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Also, just going to point out here that Pair.com has had a great reputation in the hosting industry, and has for the last 10 years.

I've been in the industry for 10 years and worked for quite a number of hosting companies, not Pair though, and when you have 150 shared clients on a machine and 1 client is causing the problems you do your best to deliver the warning before it gets out of hand but it is very hard to do.

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When I emailed Pair.com to tell them that my site was about to get a writeup in the Wall Street Journal, they moved my site to a dedicated server within an hour, left it there until the spike of traffic was over, then moved my site back to a shared server--all at no charge. If you use Pair.com properly, they are more than excellent.

They could have a small pool of servers where they could move problematic sites until the customer has had a warning and a fair chance to react to it.

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