Shared Hosting Providers

[Blake Barnett]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Jared Bellows wrote:

> The company I work for is looking for a shared hosting provider. We  
> are
> looking for 99.9% uptime (nothing too special). I've been looking at
> site5.com. They seem to be pretty good, but was wondering if anyone  
> has any
> experience with them or if they can recommend another shared hosting
> provider.

Bottom line is, you can't guarantee ANY kind of uptime in a shared  
environment, unless it's completely locked down (and therefore much  
less useful).  What happens when one of the other customers on the  
server uploads some horrid perl script that takes down the server?

-Blake