I would like to take a few moments to thank (and recommend) the webhost which hosts TakeItApart, HostPC.
Hosting disassembly images is quite bandwidth intensive, and HostPC’s reasonably generous bandwidth quotas allows TakeItApart to continue. Last July TakeItApart was able to survive — and remain operational — during a BBC mention and digg front-page promotion largely because of HostPC’s stable servers. It may be a bit pricier than other webhosts per gigabyte of bandwidth transfer, but they make up for it with real, reachable service people. I’ve never had a service ticket go more than twelve hours without a response, and have even spoken (via phone) with the owner when a rare outage occurred last spring.
HostPC is based near Syracuse, NY with a datacenter in Florida. They’re currently undergoing some sort of rebranding to be called “Yareo” (strange, I know), but they stress they will remain the same. Unlike large corporate hosts which have unreachable service and inconsistent uptime, it has been my experience that HostPC tries to personally serve its customers. I urge anyone looking to switch hosts or start a website to give them a try.
EDIT: It seems that for an indeterminate amount of time HostPC is offering free hosting. (100MB space/2GB bandwidth) Not huge, but a nice start for someone looking to experiment with a webhost with PHP/MySQL/Perl/Ruby on Rails.
-Chris
It appears that the offer is now over with.
“Offer Temporarily Suspended”
Thanks for the information. I was looking for a free host with php/sql support. I found freehostia.com (ckeck my blog) which is pretty decent but I have no idea what their downtime is. I did have a few glitches a few days back but since my blog is not a crowd attractor, i wasnt worried much.
And Bryan its interesting to know why they have suspended the offer. click on the ‘information’ link below the message. EXTRACT:
“Due to an EXTRAORDINARY number of signups for our free hosting option, we literally have been overwhelmed and have temporarily suspended this option until we can catch up with orders. You may still place your order, however it will not be setup until we resume this service offering.
In offering this free option, we never anticipated the number of people that would take advantage of it within the first few hours. We are litterally adding hundreds of accounts every few hours.”