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.
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
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Gudanov - Oct 02, 2012 4:53:34 pm PDT #21123 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Gudanov - Oct 02, 2012 5:07:02 pm PDT #21124 of 25501
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 25501
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 25501
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 25501
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 25501
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 25501
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 25501
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 25501
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 25501
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.