Ask HN: feedback on my web site - Web hosting plans comparison

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1 point·jusob··4 comments

I needed to find a shared Linux web hosting plan. I couldn't find a good web site to compare them, only a lot of (fake) top-10 lists.

So I decided to create my own website. The HN crowd might be more interested on dedicated servers, or VPS, but I think you can give me good feedback on the website: does it add any value? Is the information presented well enough? What is missing? What is superfluous? etc.

I'm going to keep adding new plans, and give more information about companies. Right now I am focusing more on hard facts.

For someone new to this business, it's impressive how you independently reinvented the googlespammer trick of using a domain name made of keywords in random order.

the number one thing i want to know when looking for hosting is exactly what os/software versions does the system run. extra credit for procmail hooks and email aliases. on some hosters that info is pretty up front, on others i can't find it anywhere!

i haven't found a shared hosting solution that provides python2.5 and django, let alone fastcgi, so i've always setup my own virtual server.

Thanks. I'm trying right now to get the phpinfo for most hosts. It is easy for the big players (Godaddy, 1&1, etc.), but much harder for the small ones. At least I should add the Apache version (it looks like a lot of hosts still use Apache 1.3.x).

I'm not sure if it is a good idea to ask directly each company about such details, it will be hard to keep the information up to date (and to ensure they don't lie/don't make errors).

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