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BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 11th Jan 08 at 4:26pm
Has anyone used BigWetFish here before? I need hosting for a new domain/site I am working on and my ErrorHost is fine, but just for hope. So probably gonna go paid.

So how is BigWetFish.co.uk if you used it. I hear SSD was told to leave them because they nearly used all their bandwidth every month.

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By Michael (wrighty) on 11th Jan 08 at 4:27pm
http://surpasshosting.com {Smile}

All their shared packages are very good, awesome support too {Smile}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 11th Jan 08 at 4:30pm
 
http://surpasshosting.com {Smile}

All their shared packages are very good, awesome support too {Smile}
I was looking at BigWetFish because of a yearly price. 6 * 12 = 72 bucks. I may have a hard time coming up with that as most of my income is gifts. I am under review to renew my SSI.

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By Michael (wrighty) on 11th Jan 08 at 4:56pm
surpass is about $60 a year

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 11th Jan 08 at 5:03pm
 
surpass is about $60 a year
Whereas BigWetFish comes to around 22 bucks a year. Which makes a big difference to me. As I have no job, so no steady source of income.

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By Michael (wrighty) on 11th Jan 08 at 5:16pm
you said it was 72! {Unsure}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 11th Jan 08 at 5:56pm
 
you said it was 72! {Unsure}
6 * 12 = 72, right?

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By Graham (amusedtodeath) on 11th Jan 08 at 7:06pm
 
 
you said it was 72! {Unsure}
6 * 12 = 72, right?


Indeed, but you said in a later post that it was 22 {Tongue Out} Am assuming tis a typo.

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 12th Jan 08 at 9:20am
I meant BigWetFish is 22 bucks USD roughly the host Wrighty recommended is 72.

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By Michael (wrighty) on 12th Jan 08 at 12:06pm
they charge per month or year... {Smile}

Mine has better specs! {Wink}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By XeroCint (kai) on 12th Jan 08 at 3:38pm
I use bluehost, its really great and cheap {Cheesy}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 12th Jan 08 at 4:03pm
Since all I could really afford to throw away (after buying ad free here =D) I went with BigWetFish, if I don't like them I guess I'd know I don't like them. That's why I left HostGator and ASO. (ASO had horrible downtime on my server and denied a lot of it.)

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By Graham (amusedtodeath) on 12th Jan 08 at 10:51pm
 
Since all I could really afford to throw away (after buying ad free here =D) I went with BigWetFish, if I don't like them I guess I'd know I don't like them. That's why I left HostGator and ASO. (ASO had horrible downtime on my server and denied a lot of it.)


Why did you leave HostGator? They're pretty good in my opinion.

 
I use bluehost, its really great and cheap {Cheesy}


Aye, the record label i run the forum for uses them for their site, it's pretty good {Smile}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 13th Jan 08 at 8:05am
HostGator had nearly a month of downtime with me, and some of my data was lost, and they messed up cPanel on the server I was on and they denied all claims regardless of how many screenshots and videos I had of it. And I had one chat convo saved with an employee saying that the administrators messed an upgrade up, and they deny that person worked for them. oO

Edit: Does Ross have a referral with them? =P They said I can give them a referral at a later time. I just put Russ of VirtualForums.co.uk in the referral thingy.

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By Ross (admin) on 13th Jan 08 at 11:35am
 
HostGator had nearly a month of downtime with me, and some of my data was lost, and they messed up cPanel on the server I was on and they denied all claims regardless of how many screenshots and videos I had of it. And I had one chat convo saved with an employee saying that the administrators messed an upgrade up, and they deny that person worked for them. oO

Edit: Does Ross have a referral with them? =P They said I can give them a referral at a later time. I just put Russ of VirtualForums.co.uk in the referral thingy.


Referral Code: 002 {Smile}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 13th Jan 08 at 11:42am
 
 
HostGator had nearly a month of downtime with me, and some of my data was lost, and they messed up cPanel on the server I was on and they denied all claims regardless of how many screenshots and videos I had of it. And I had one chat convo saved with an employee saying that the administrators messed an upgrade up, and they deny that person worked for them. oO

Edit: Does Ross have a referral with them? =P They said I can give them a referral at a later time. I just put Russ of VirtualForums.co.uk in the referral thingy.

002
Will update. =) Hope you get another free domain like the time I used yours with Elixant =P.
Referral Code: 002 {Smile}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By Munzz (Munzz) on 13th Jan 08 at 12:13pm
I use them and if you have decided to sign up with them, I don't think you have made a bad choice! Support is good and so is the overall hosting service {Smile}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 13th Jan 08 at 12:44pm
Posted By Munzz on 13th Jan 08 at 12:13pm
 
I use them and if you have decided to sign up with them, I don't think you have made a bad choice! Support is good and so is the overall hosting service {Smile}
Sweet.

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By NS (ns) on 18th Jan 08 at 5:09am
I've never heard of them before.

I don't know if I would go with them if they are turning away sites for being too large. Maybe you should just go with a more commonly known site like GoDaddy?

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 19th Jan 08 at 12:01pm
 
I've never heard of them before.

I don't know if I would go with them if they are turning away sites for being too large. Maybe you should just go with a more commonly known site like GoDaddy?
GoDaddy put's ads on their pages, how professional is that for a paid hosting service that has millions of customers? I know GoDaddy is alright and everything, but I hate their control panel, and they are more of a 'domain register' to me. I'd like to keep the two seprate even though I use MISK.

I am going BigWetFish just to see. I guess hands on experimentation is the best. {Unsure}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By Ryan (gimli10567) on 19th Jan 08 at 9:20pm
It generally isn't a good idea to get hosting from a registrar, like it isn't a good idea to get a domain from a host. {Tongue Out}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 19th Jan 08 at 10:09pm
 
It generally isn't a good idea to get hosting from a registrar, like it isn't a good idea to get a domain from a host. {Tongue Out}
The only exception I ever had was Elixant =P. They were pure awesome.

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By Ryan (gimli10567) on 20th Jan 08 at 4:46am
 
 
It generally isn't a good idea to get hosting from a registrar, like it isn't a good idea to get a domain from a host. {Tongue Out}
The only exception I ever had was Elixant =P. They were pure awesome.


I'm pretty sure they gave me our domain for free. I'm not one to pass up something free, haha. {Tongue Out}

Re: BigWetFish - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 20th Jan 08 at 10:35am
 
 
 
It generally isn't a good idea to get hosting from a registrar, like it isn't a good idea to get a domain from a host. {Tongue Out}
The only exception I ever had was Elixant =P. They were pure awesome.


I'm pretty sure they gave me our domain for free. I'm not one to pass up something free, haha. {Tongue Out}
True. =] All we had to do was go apply for a free reseller account and Mike pushed it to our account too =]