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Looking for a good PHP/MySQL web host, again
To responders, please only recommend web hosts you've personally experienced. The features I'm looking for, and all of them are MUSTS:
- Has to have SSH access
- Has to allow MySQL Workbench (hate PHPMyAdmin) access to MySQL database
- Has to have phone technical support that does not entail up to 30 minute or more wait times. NO LIVE-CHAT-support-only please.
- Does not force you to use aliases for your database names. In other words, if I want to create a database named People, I should be able to name it that way, not prefix or suffixed by something, or worse, they give you an alias like D01357235239 (like what 1and1.com does)
So you see, I'm not that demanding :)
Please do not recommend the following as I've already tried them:
NameCheap.com (it was good at first, but support is live chat only and got old real quick, and I just cancelled my account today. Took them 20 minutes to give me a link where I could request for the cancellation myself; that was frustrating)
1and1.com (phone support entails a ridiculous long wait during peak hours, and can't access my database with MySQL Workbench. Twice I was on hold for 30 minutes and gave up)
GoDaddy.com (their setup is so weird and restrictive, it was a joke)
InMotionHosting.com (can't remember the reason, except they didn't have all the features I listed above)
- Has to have SSH access
- Has to allow MySQL Workbench (hate PHPMyAdmin) access to MySQL database
- Has to have phone technical support that does not entail up to 30 minute or more wait times. NO LIVE-CHAT-support-only please.
- Does not force you to use aliases for your database names. In other words, if I want to create a database named People, I should be able to name it that way, not prefix or suffixed by something, or worse, they give you an alias like D01357235239 (like what 1and1.com does)
So you see, I'm not that demanding :)
Please do not recommend the following as I've already tried them:
NameCheap.com (it was good at first, but support is live chat only and got old real quick, and I just cancelled my account today. Took them 20 minutes to give me a link where I could request for the cancellation myself; that was frustrating)
1and1.com (phone support entails a ridiculous long wait during peak hours, and can't access my database with MySQL Workbench. Twice I was on hold for 30 minutes and gave up)
GoDaddy.com (their setup is so weird and restrictive, it was a joke)
InMotionHosting.com (can't remember the reason, except they didn't have all the features I listed above)
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Wonder if that's shared support - because I know for a fact I've called them (on dedicated support - mind you) before at 2am and gotten their support reps.
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erzoolander, yes, it is shared support that I was talking about.
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Thanks for responding!
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