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You guys rock. I'm checking out nearlyfree right now but I think PRQ might be the way to go. Moving our site over is going to be painful and expensive so we want to get it right the first time and not have to deal with it again. With PRQ, it looks like we can do just that.

The best part about all this - the company who is bullying us has never, not ONCE, sent a notice directly to us. Nope, they just pelt our host as a scare tactic. Low and behold, it finally worked and our host gave us a week to vacate. Super, thanks...

So as usual, you guys rock. Thanks so much for the help. Sweden here we come - where the air is cold, the women are blond and the hosts have brass balls.

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Speaking of a lack of "balls", don't be so reticent to say who your current hosting provider is.

Touche.

It's Rackspace. I haven't mentioned them by name to this point because truth be told, we like them a lot. Their services are top-notch and the team members we've dealt with are great people, top to bottom. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to anyone in fact, as long as there are no potential legal matters to be considered...

Their legal department is where we take issue. Despite the fact that we comply immediately with any and all founded legal claims, they refuse to back us on this new round of ridiculous and frivolous claims that directly impact our livelihood and our rights. The bottom line is they have a lot going on right now and it seems like legal just doesn't want to be bothered. So be it, onward and upward.

Great. I'm feeling that much better about the recent acquisitions of Slicehost and JungleDisk, both of which I pay to use.

To be fair, this is a big piece of doodoo for a host to have to deal with for the few $100 that they tend to charge.

If its anything more then a bare basic, just getting a lawyer to look over every piece of mail they get & advise them could cost well over what they make on hosting a site. Even on a high plan, if they are getting these love letters frequently.

I run a.. shall we say, niche site. 9 million hits a month, about 2TB of data.. and we use Hetzner. They're pretty good.

http://www.hetzner.de/

2TB... hmmm... no guessing needed :-D

Would guessing still be needed if I said it was a non-subscription website? :P

+1 for Hetzner. Even though the website is in German, I've always been able to get qualified help in English.

I don't know how they'll feel about C&D's, though. I've never been in trouble with my servers.

I have. They generally just forward the complaint on to you and tell you to deal with it. Unless lawyering gets involved, they don't give two hoots.

I looked on your sig, and malicelabs is one wicked site. You should make cartoons.

That's just a placeholder, until I get off my tuchas.

Awesome nonetheless.

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