I'm in the midst of a billing dispute with FatCow right now. They say I still owe them, PayPal says I've paid them and they have verified payment. Too early to say if they are handling it well or poorly yet.
Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.
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Gudanov - Oct 02, 2012 4:53:34 pm PDT #21123 of 25502
Coding and Sleeping
Gudanov - Oct 02, 2012 5:07:02 pm PDT #21124 of 25502
Coding and Sleeping
They got back to me quick and took care of it without a fuss. An "Ooops, our bad" would have nice, but I can't complain.
Typo Boy - Oct 02, 2012 5:14:59 pm PDT #21125 of 25502
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
My dispute is that they raised their rate on renewal to a cost equal to that of dreamhost. Fatcow is not in the same service class and they ought to know it. I switched to a less expensive host. If I could not have found one I would have switched to dreamhost. No way I'll pay dreamhost prices for fatcow quality.
Gudanov - Oct 02, 2012 5:29:29 pm PDT #21126 of 25502
Coding and Sleeping
I haven't had any trouble with them, but then my needs aren't all that demanding. It's probably worth a look to save money when renewal comes around again, but I've got multiple domains and bunches of e-mail to screw with to change (moving the domains is easy enough, but the databases and having people reconfiguring IMAP and POP addresses is a pain). In any event, I might have to bail at some point if they can't host servlets when/if it becomes an issue.
Typo Boy - Oct 02, 2012 5:37:47 pm PDT #21127 of 25502
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
My needs are even less demanding than yours. Nothing but html at the server side. I joined them because they are cheap. And now they want to charge 105 per year for hosting?
§ ita § - Oct 02, 2012 5:58:36 pm PDT #21128 of 25502
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Typo, you're saying these prices aren't real: [link] ? What do you have to do to get the $83.40/year?
Typo Boy - Oct 02, 2012 5:59:44 pm PDT #21129 of 25502
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Buy three years worth at once.
§ ita § - Oct 02, 2012 6:24:00 pm PDT #21130 of 25502
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, 3 years at once is $59.40 per year.
But I didn't know anywhere charged under $3 a year for a long term amount--either it's a long-time customer perk or a limited time now loss leader. Am I that out of touch? $6.95/month looks cheap to me.
Typo Boy - Oct 02, 2012 6:52:51 pm PDT #21131 of 25502
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I'm probably the one out of touch. Part of it is that I have 3 per year with a legacy account, but they won't do it for new ones. But I can find in that neighborhood for lower tier service, like Gator and ipage. Static html, no hosted email. . I may add a blog if I ever get time to blog again.
Una - Oct 02, 2012 7:02:57 pm PDT #21132 of 25502
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
I've been using NearlyFreeSpeech for about a year for a static HTML site that I rarely fiddle with. So far it's been hassle-free and inexpensive.