My New Hosting Company

As I was writing in my previous post, I had a lot of troubles with Varhosting.net. I was hopping I can get a backup of my websites and move over to a new host, but unfortunately I couldn't. All my websites were lost forever… I could get some very old backups from them but that didn’t help much. My own backups were newer than the ones at Varhosting.

Anyway, looks like Varhosting is out of business and Datacity aquired their CPanel/WHM segment.

I want to thank Bob and Roy who suggested alternatives for Varhosting. In the end I started over with Gazzin.com. The price is low and the package is good enough: 7.5 GB of disk space and 80 GB of monthly transfer, plus all the "unlimited" stuff you find everywhere, like unlimited domains and unlimited subdomains, plus the "free" stuff you find everywhere, like free MySQL, free PostgreSQL, free PHP, free support and so on, plus private name servers (I really appreciate this feature). All for $9.95. Gazzin also offers free hosting for your main website. That means you get an extra 500 MB of disk space for your main website, free of charge.

Support is very good, responsive and polite. At first they ignored me for more than 24 hours but now that my account is set up, they answer in less than an hour and usually solve the issue in the same time (provided you give them as many details as possible from the beginning).

I find the administration side a bit slow. It seems like WHM and CPanel are slower, you have to wait more than usual for the whole page to load. Same happens with PHPMyAdmin. There were no major downtimes since I got this package. There were a few downtimes that lasted less than 10 minutes each. That's not bad for the money I'm paying.

I'm happy with Gazzin.com for now. I'll let you know if anything bad happens. If you have any experience with Gazzin.com, I'd like to hear from you.