iHubNet Hosting SolutionsWhen our websites start falling offline, most of us start looking for a new provider.  My current host has finally stopped fiddling with settings and servers, which means this site has actually been available for 99.98% of the last 25 days.  Great news!  But it’s pretty sad when I look at the last six months and see a total availability of 93.48%.  Suffice to say, I’ve been looking around for another provider to switch to once my contract finishes, or when my host starts touching their servers again.

Earlier today I found out about the services at iHubNet Hosting Solutions, and they have some pretty decent packages.  Since January, I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with various CMS’s (Content Management Systems) as well as writing in Ruby and my biggest problem has been finding a nice development platform.  iHubNet supports Ruby, Perl, as well as the standard PHP4 and 5 / Apache / MySQL combination.  What really got my attention, though, were the server specs and management tools.

It’s quite normal for a hosting company to have dozens of sites on a single server, and while this might not always require the most powerful servers in the world, iHubNet ensures that every one of their dual-core / dual-processor SuperMicro servers has more than enough power and memory available for every site being hosted.  In the event of a hard drive failure, data is protected by a RAID-10 level of mirroring and the drives are all hot swappable.  This would have been nice a few months back when the server hosting this site lost a drive and had to be restored from the previous day’s backup.  It was sheer luck that I didn’t lose any data of relevance in the crash.

Everything I’ve said so far has been well and good for people that have worked with this kind of stuff in the past, however, iHubNet also makes things incredibly easy for people starting out for the first time.  Tech support has works hard to guarantee a 30-minute response time for any problems, and they employ highly experienced staff to ensure issues are resolved quickly.  Fantastico De Luxe also makes installation of Content Management Systems, blogs, forums, shopping carts and mailing lists a breeze.

If you’re in the market for a new web host, or plan on starting a new site of your own, check out the services at iHubNet.  They have a solution for everyone from beginner to master.

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