Posted on 09/24/2005 5:52:24 PM PDT by BIRDS
For conservatives, many of the issues important to us are often maligned by liberals. For some of us conservatives who maintain websites, and attempt to discuss and/or explore issues on our sites, some webhosting services disapprove of the issues and discussions and sometimes go so far as to malign conservative customers and their sites accordingly, even refusing service when key issues are being discussed on those sites which are otherwise well maintained, family oriented -- and what by that ensues is the suppression of conservative issues by liberals on the internet.
As conservatives, what are your experiences with webhosts? And, what are your suggestions as to webhosting services for conservative websites? You can't discuss issues on the internet without a website to do so and for those of us who enjoy maintaining our own sites, webhosting is a big issue until and unless we locate a very good webhost who is also a conservative (or otherwise a tolerant liberal...). ~;-D
In my experience, most webhosting services and much of the internet is populated by liberal-to-extremely-leftwing individuals and their webhosting and service enterprises, and finding webhosting and other website services for conservative websites and issues discussions is a challenge.
Thus: your ideas, experiences, suggestions?
Hosting Matters (http://hostmatters.com/) is used by conservative bloggers such as Powerline, InstaPundit, Captain's Quarters etc.
What matters most in a hosting service are dependability and service. Politics shouldn't enter into it.
In the past I signed up my clients on APLUS.net, and they have been rock solid.
Over the last couple years I have been signing clients up with IPOWER.com. They are just as good as APLUS, cheaper, and offer more features.
"Microsoft is liberal and so is Apple. Are you going to stop using one/both of them?"
It would be quite simple for me. An open source os, Mozilla, & web mail.
What is remarkable is that you counted the words.
Signed, a Dudette.
Well, I have. They use manufactured reasons, however...websites totally above board, family oriented, even.
I don't think it's fair to certain webhosts to get into specific complaints here, issues, names, etc.
I'm just curious what responses by FRs are.
I don't think it's fair to certain webhosts to get into specific complaints here, issues, names, etc.
I'm just curious what responses by FRs are.
Agreed.
Don't forget that they are communist :) I mean just look at the mozilla websites logo!
:) :)
I think that by pointing out these issues, those service and other providers, the point is that there are politics at play where the goods and services affecting the internet are concerned. Of course those aren't webhosting services, but services nonetheless.
Thanks VERY MUCH for that information. I was wondering the other day who hosts FR because it's a remarkable testament to technical excellence, in my experience, along with all the other concerns. So, thanks, because Verio (co-location) for FR is about as great an example of expertise as ever could be.
I agree that politics should NOT enter into hosting services, but they do. In accepting the reality of human differences, I was just wondering what experiences people would share here as to resources.
Well, it's certainly a perspective.
Look, I'm not fantasizing here, and the question is a serious one. Politics by some often enter into, specifically, what should be technical support and/or customer support, just as personalities otherwise do when it's necessary to interact with another human being. Sometimes people denigrate technical needs/issues based upon a site's content being alternate/different than their own perspectives about hot-button issues and they respond accordingly and it makes for bad hosting experiences.
Just as it is in other areas of commerce. As it affects the internet in the area of webhosting, I was curious, is all. Your comment suggests some sort of "tin foil hat"-esque quality to the issue, which is unfortunate.
There are some on the crazy left that are very very proficient at hacking. BTW, this also goes for other folks who don't like the current conservative agenda, like foreign governments, terrorists and the like.
Very popular sites almost always get their own boxes no matter what content they have.
a lot of people swear by hostingmatters.com
Once you are a target, or identified as a target, the random becomes not random but potentially multiple aggressive probes focusing on a single subnet or set of subnets to find and create a zombie behind the firewall. All of this probing can really resemble a denial of service attack across the entire front of hosted machines.
I am not saying that hosts reject this business out of hand, but that they have to take special time, care and attention and a site might need to be promoted to a dedicated box or segregated to protect the less target worthy machines. This equals higher costs that must be charged. If this cost can't be recovered.. then the host will begin avoiding this sort of head ache.
No, it's not "a major concern" of mine but a popular topic of discussion on the internet.
You are intent on personalizing, subjectifying, an objective issue. If it will help you get into another realm of discussion, please consider that my two websites are happily and technically well hosted.
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