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I’m not sure how Hosting Matters got such a great reputation

Because I have two HM accounts, and they’re both inaccessible several times a day.  This account is better than my other one, but they’re both crap.  My other account, according to HM’s own server monitor, has been inaccessible FOUR TIMES today.  When I complain about it they just reply that there’s nothing wrong.  Well, dammit, there IS something wrong when I can’t get to my accounts (and no one else can get to them either) FOUR TIMES in a day.  It’s really, really beginning to annoy me, so much so that I’m beginning to look for alternatives.  Yeah, I realize my little blog isn’t Instapundit, but still…

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I think Hosting Matters gets their reputation because a lot of the hosting providers out there are worse.  While they certainly could be better, I’m not sure how many hosting services are better. 

The one that hosts my employer’s static web site is actually worse.  They charge more, and while the page is always visible, the only way we can change things is to publish by FTP.  There is no way to set up email forwarding other than contacting them to do it. 

Pair Networks is the only one that comes to mind with a better reputation than Hosting Matters, but for my current usage, it would be significantly more expensive.  Given that I’m hosting several domains and more than one blog, it would probably cost about twice as much for me to move to Pair. 

I wouldn’t be surprised if the problems we both have experienced with Hosting Matters are compounded by excessive load caused by comment spammers.

I used to have a problem, not with comment spammers, but with referrer spammers.  I got referrer spam by the hundreds of thousands.  I finally figured out how to shut it down.  One of the reasons I use ExpressionEngine is because they’ve been so proactive about including tools to shut down that kind of nonsense.

By referrer spam, I assume you are talking about links which show up in your logs as being referred by some site or another.  Most likely for gambling sites or sites selling “diet pills” or a certain Pfizer drug.com.

I hate those.  But the only problem they create for me is that they make it harder to figure out who my real top referrers are.

That is precisely what I am talking about.  I finally had to completely disable the referrer logging to get it to stop.  It’s ridiculous.  The only person who can see the referrer logs is the site owner, what in the world is the point of spamming referrer logs?  But I was literally getting them by the thousands.  My referrer logs were multi-megs per day.

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