Comments on: Quirkiness is an option

By: geofftech

geofftech — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:26:23 +0000

Well I rang Clara today, and I said “Can I pay monthly please instead as you’ve charged me for a whole year”.

“Sure” she says, “That’s done”, you’ll now be chared �23 per month.

“Ok, and you’ve given me back my �230, yes?”

“Ooh… no.. i’d better go and talk to my supervisor”

Yes, I think you better had dear.

So they say they’ve sorted it. Whether they have or not remains to be seen. Time to keep an on my online banking over the next few days…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:06:38 +0000

Another good UK-based web hosting company is WebFusion, now owned by Pipex. Their Linux-hosting comparison tables can be found here: Linux hosting

I’ve been with them for about 4 years now. The webmail is a bit flaky, but you would probably use POP anyway. They’ve also made a couple of minor administrative cock-ups (or perhaps just not made properly clear what they were going to do before they did it). Other than that, they seem pretty good. 1.5GB webspace and 10GB monthly bandwidth (0.5p/MB thereafter) seems quite good for �99+vat per annum.

By: Anthony Smith

Anthony Smith — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:54:56 +0000

” I got quite thin and guant towards the end of 2001 due to a certain �lifestyle change� ”

To quote Chaucer:

Yet one man stoode all pale and wan,
For he was a vegetariane.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:09:45 +0000

Like Brian (and Pixeldiva) I use Dreamhost too and I have to say it’s not bad at all.

(I was converted to the light).

By: geofftech

geofftech — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:28:06 +0000

Yorkie – A website to a list of rain guages to set how wet different parts of the country are can be found here:

http://www.see-how-wet-yorkie-is.com/

Forum? Now there’s an idea…

Brian – I would consider changing, but for it to happen seamlessly would be nigh on impossoble – tranferring the domain and all the data now tied up in the SQLdatabase, etc.. that’s not a straightforward task!

And Clara do allow telnet access! Eek. Which i understand is unusual, yes…

By: Yorkie

Yorkie — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:53:34 +0000

I should point out that I am safe and well, I was not flooded out; I don’t live in the wettest part of Yorkshire. (No doubt somebody will bring up a website with a list of rain guages in different parts of the wonderful county to tell us all how wet it actually is)

Simply been busy, and away from a decent net connection. No news is either good news or it means I’ve been tweaking computers again…

Apologies for almost beginning to treat this comment box like a forum.

By: F5� Chris

F5� Chris — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:52:38 +0000

I’m not sure who I’m with.

But it’s costing me �35 a year. Which aint bad..

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:45:35 +0000

Ack! Can this blog allow editing of posts?

I forgot to say that I hope Clara does not allow telnet access to their boxes! You should run screaming in the opposite direction from any host that allows users unencrypted access to their network (especially with shared hosting plans etc.)

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:42:25 +0000

You might want to shop around a bit there Geoff. I host with Dreamhost and apart from the corny name, I have found them really good. Certainly their base plan seems to offer a lot more than Clara. I suppose, you might prefer to host with a company based in the country you live in, but if you can break that barrier then there are multiple other options open to you.

By: geofftech

geofftech — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:53:43 +0000

I’ve just realised that �199.99 is the price, PLUS vat. which equates to around the �232 figure which i mentioned.

but they’re still sneaky bastards because they went ahead and charged me for a whole year instead of debiting me monthly, which is what they used to do before I upgraded.