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    • CommentAuthormista3
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2007 edited
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    I found a few reviews of http://www.mosso.com/ today.

    Sounds interesting, and more stable than something like the (slightly infamous now) GridServer. They even claim zero downtime, which I'm sure isn't true, but sounds impressive.

    Ability to run Windows and Linux is nifty too.

    If you have tried MOSSO, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. Are they reliable?

    Cheers,

    3stripe
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      CommentAuthormringlein
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2007
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    nclud is hosted through mosso and it has been great so far. I really can't speak to if it is the best solution for a large and robust site.
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    I don't know $100 a lot of money for something like that.
    I still would say GridServer better solution for the money and reliability.
    Beside it looks like they are subcompany of Rackspace which is sucky company.
    For this money you can better dedicated server and install whatever you want.

    Best, DS
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    I currently have had both GridServer and now MOSSO and I love MOSSO hosting. That is of course if you can stomach the rather steep monthly bill. GridServer has made my site run extremely slow, and I have not had a good experience with MT customer support. I've heard nothing but good things about Rackspace and MOSSO especially but in the end I'm pretty sure most hosting companies end up at the same point. Over-promise, under-deliver.
    • CommentAuthormista3
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2007
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    I've had a less-than-average experience with Grid Server also - lots of downtime which they explain in a similar way to Dreamhost - eg long long posts minutely detailing stuff that I expect to 'just' work.

    Price is not so much an issue, I just want something very stable and with good support.
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    Well if price is not an issue for you go for it.
    I personally can't justify $100 every month just for personal use.
    What you pay is what you got! I guess for $100 a month you expecting good customer support
    but if they good as they saying then most likely you won't need customer support in a first place.

    Cheers, DS
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      CommentAuthorenvisean
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2007
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    I'm signing up today. Had some really big issues with a few of my clients and MT's GS. I'm crossing my fingers that none of the issues will pop up anymore and start to host my clients sites under my supervision on this.

    Anyone else with experience and a number for what they're charging their clients for monthly hosting through their Mosso account?

    Best,
    Sean
    • CommentAuthormista3
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
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    No, but we are thinking of offering it as a free service to our clients....

    For us, the time saved by not having to faff about with lots of different (and often poor) hosts such as Easily etc, could quickly pay for itself.

    Instead of having to use and remember all those different logins, web control panels, mysql logins etc, it would all be centralised with Mosso :)
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    Well if anyone is interested I recently did a write-up of my experience with MediaTemple vs. Mosso hosting over at my site. explorinlauren.com.

    Shameless plug I know but still worth a read if you're interested.
    • CommentAuthorJoeyS984
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2007 edited
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    I was this close to using Mosso, when I cam across this article:

    http://pdim.net/journal_entry/in_search_of_a_perfect_hosting_company/

    The guy who wrote this article tried Mosso, and a bunch of the different hosting companies out there (Dreamhost, MediaTemple, etc.) and gave an honest write up of why he kept looking for the "pefect host." (He said Mosso was good all around, but pretty slow).

    He's now using Servint. and I have to say, I'm unable to find a single unhappy review of Servint on the web (and they've been around for over 12 years). Everyone seems ecstatic with them. Unless I can find a reason not to, I'm thinking of giving them a try.
    • CommentAuthormista3
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2007 edited
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    Well, we signed up for Mosso this week...

    Here is the page they don't want you to see: http://status.mosso.com/ (reminds me of the Grid Server status page, but not quite as bad)

    All in all, the Mosso system is nice. It's easy to use, and the client-side of things is well handled too - they have unbranded control panels etc.

    It has some critical flaws however - for instance, if you add a website under your company and then want to list it under a client (so that you can charge them for technical support etc), there's no way to do this. Instead, you have to delete the website from Mosso completely, and re-add it! Crazy!

    Also, there's no access to cronjobs, or options for Ruby on Rails or Django, yet. Although these are apparently 'on their roadmap'.

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