[Web4lib] Libraries using a third party web hosting service

[Will Kurt]

For my library Job-site I've been using bluehost.com and they've been 
fantastic so far.  Their technical support is awesome, never had to 
wait for a response, and all problems were resolved very quickly.   I 
feel, regardless of what choice you make, support really should be 
your top priority as it can make all the difference.  The management 
is very open and honest about difficulties that the company is 
encountering and what they're doing to resolve any issues, they've 
been growing very fast but seem to have been scaling very well.

It is shared hosting and I don't know what you're bandwidth needs 
are.  My site gets relatively little traffic, between 250-330 
visitors daily. Although I'm nowhere near my bandwidth limitations.

Another feature you might find useful is that they have automatic 
installers for a lot of the services you've mentioned being 
interested in  (Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, etc.)

The website is: www.bluehost.com


Thanks,
Will

At 04:51 PM 3/27/2007, Donel, John wrote:
>Hello
>
>We are investigating transferring our web site from an internal IIS 
>web server to a third party web hosting service in order to 
>efficiently incorporate more sophisticated web software applications 
>such as Joomla, php, RSS, blogging, etc., into our public web site 
>maintenance and services.  We would like to know if your library, or 
>any you're aware of, use a web hosting service and what you think of 
>your host, in terms of reliability, services offered, support and 
>whether or not it's made developing and maintaining your web site easier.
>
>thanks
>John Donel
>Technology Services Librarian
>Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
>Corvallis, OR  97330
>541-766-6457
>john.donel at ci.corvallis.or.us
>
>
>
>
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