Anybody used Brinkster lately for web hosting?

[Macsicarr]

Hi All

I know brinkster has been round for a while, but I always classed it as sort
of free host site like geocities and the like.

I've just had an email from them and from an ASP developer point of view
they now seem to be doing some good hosting packages.

Price isn't fantastic, but they offer .net as standard and more importantly
their servers seem to be far more flexible in that you can use Versign's
secure payment dlls for shop cart payment verification and even set up your
own secure server so that the http and the https data can be on the same
domain and web space. This latter feature would have got me out of so much
crap if my current ISP could do it because I'm currently 'session chasing'
between 2 different hosting spaces for the http and https sides of my shop
cart site.

My question is has anybody used Brinkster lately, in particular the features
I've mentioned, and found that they are good/bad?

Thanks Mac

[Turkbear]

On Tue, 10 May 2005 19:22:02 +0100, "Macsicarr" <no****@nospam.com> wrote:

Hi All

I know brinkster has been round for a while, but I always classed it as sort
of free host site like geocities and the like.

I've just had an email from them and from an ASP developer point of view
they now seem to be doing some good hosting packages.

Price isn't fantastic, but they offer .net as standard and more importantly
their servers seem to be far more flexible in that you can use Versign's
secure payment dlls for shop cart payment verification and even set up your
own secure server so that the http and the https data can be on the same
domain and web space. This latter feature would have got me out of so much
crap if my current ISP could do it because I'm currently 'session chasing'
between 2 different hosting spaces for the http and https sides of my shop
cart site.

My question is has anybody used Brinkster lately, in particular the features
I've mentioned, and found that they are good/bad?

Thanks Mac

No to plug them( do not and have not worked for them), but have you looked into:

http://myhosting.com/

They seem to be reliable and inexpensive for what they offer ( Not sure about all your requirements)

[Kyle Peterson]

also check www.alentus.com

asp is their business and their support is killer

ask for permissions to be set and they usually do in less than an hou.. etc
etc

3000.00 of commerical asp components accesable to you per server


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On Tue, 10 May 2005 19:22:02 +0100, "Macsicarr" <no****@nospam.com> wrote:

Hi All

I know brinkster has been round for a while, but I always classed it as
sort
of free host site like geocities and the like.

I've just had an email from them and from an ASP developer point of view
they now seem to be doing some good hosting packages.

Price isn't fantastic, but they offer .net as standard and more
importantly
their servers seem to be far more flexible in that you can use Versign's
secure payment dlls for shop cart payment verification and even set up
your
own secure server so that the http and the https data can be on the same
domain and web space. This latter feature would have got me out of so
much
crap if my current ISP could do it because I'm currently 'session chasing'
between 2 different hosting spaces for the http and https sides of my shop
cart site.

My question is has anybody used Brinkster lately, in particular the
features
I've mentioned, and found that they are good/bad?

Thanks Mac

No to plug them( do not and have not worked for them), but have you looked
into:

http://myhosting.com/

They seem to be reliable and inexpensive for what they offer ( Not sure
about all your requirements)

[Curt_C [MVP]]

Been using www.WebHost4Life.com for a while now, quite nice (and cheap)/
Also www.orcsweb.com has had good reviews.

--
Curt Christianson
Site & Scripts: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"Macsicarr" <no****@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Hi All

I know brinkster has been round for a while, but I always classed it as
sort
of free host site like geocities and the like.

I've just had an email from them and from an ASP developer point of view
they now seem to be doing some good hosting packages.

Price isn't fantastic, but they offer .net as standard and more
importantly
their servers seem to be far more flexible in that you can use Versign's
secure payment dlls for shop cart payment verification and even set up
your
own secure server so that the http and the https data can be on the same
domain and web space. This latter feature would have got me out of so
much
crap if my current ISP could do it because I'm currently 'session chasing'
between 2 different hosting spaces for the http and https sides of my shop
cart site.

My question is has anybody used Brinkster lately, in particular the
features
I've mentioned, and found that they are good/bad?

Thanks Mac

[wmain]

I've been using Brinkster for about a year with no problems. I have no need
for the https but you can check out the site http://transwest-tb.com and ses
the performance. It is a 100% sql server driven asp.net application.

William Main

"Macsicarr" wrote:

Hi All

I know brinkster has been round for a while, but I always classed it as sort
of free host site like geocities and the like.

I've just had an email from them and from an ASP developer point of view
they now seem to be doing some good hosting packages.

Price isn't fantastic, but they offer .net as standard and more importantly
their servers seem to be far more flexible in that you can use Versign's
secure payment dlls for shop cart payment verification and even set up your
own secure server so that the http and the https data can be on the same
domain and web space. This latter feature would have got me out of so much
crap if my current ISP could do it because I'm currently 'session chasing'
between 2 different hosting spaces for the http and https sides of my shop
cart site.

My question is has anybody used Brinkster lately, in particular the features
I've mentioned, and found that they are good/bad?

Thanks Mac