The Catnap Games website has had some bad trouble with the previous web hosting provider, PIPNI. That's a Czech company that offers very cheap shared web hosting with enticing parameters. Lots of disk space and bandwidth and a decent administration interface. But the truth is that PIPNI sucks.
Shared web hosting was a bad choice in general and with those suckers it really turned sour. PIPNI were overbooking like crazy, having frequent unexpected outages and provided essentially no support at all. PIPNI is a prime example of how web hosting is not supposed to be done. Stay away from them.
After an extensive search for an alternative I chose PowerVPS. They had decent prices and I read only praise about their support. So I ordered a rather basic VPS package for $45/month and it is more than enough for Catnap Games right now. I even added some more domains with my friends' websites into it so I can redeem part of the costs. The VPS has been working without a hiccup since the beginning.
I assume their support is outsourced to various people around the world, because sometimes it takes two tries to explain a more complex question. But that's OK! It may seem weird but it works. I always get a satisfying answer in matter of minutes.
Since I didn't think it was necessary to run my own mail server I turned it off and switched to Google Apps. A quick registration, couple of MX records changed in my DNS and I was up and running. Google now takes care of mail delivery and spam filtering for my domain for free and I get to keep the @catnapgames.com in the addresses and use the fabulous GMail interface to read mail. Sweet.
www.powervps.com
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Shared web hosting was a bad choice in general and with those suckers it really turned sour. PIPNI were overbooking like crazy, having frequent unexpected outages and provided essentially no support at all. PIPNI is a prime example of how web hosting is not supposed to be done. Stay away from them.
After an extensive search for an alternative I chose PowerVPS. They had decent prices and I read only praise about their support. So I ordered a rather basic VPS package for $45/month and it is more than enough for Catnap Games right now. I even added some more domains with my friends' websites into it so I can redeem part of the costs. The VPS has been working without a hiccup since the beginning.
I assume their support is outsourced to various people around the world, because sometimes it takes two tries to explain a more complex question. But that's OK! It may seem weird but it works. I always get a satisfying answer in matter of minutes.
Since I didn't think it was necessary to run my own mail server I turned it off and switched to Google Apps. A quick registration, couple of MX records changed in my DNS and I was up and running. Google now takes care of mail delivery and spam filtering for my domain for free and I get to keep the @catnapgames.com in the addresses and use the fabulous GMail interface to read mail. Sweet.
www.powervps.com
www.google.com/a/