As to why Blacksun, i selected them, in part, due to the issue Mark was facing w/ his technical support. Blacksun operate solely (as far as i can tell) out of Regina, Sask., and i) are responsive to most technical queries, and ii) there's not much in the way of a cultural/language layer to work through (which i think was an issue facing Mark in relation to his support issues). In a couple cases, i had to escalate technical issues past front line support at Blacksun, but that didn't involve too much hand-wringing on either end.
Along w/ PHP-5 and MySQL, their plans offer a pretty interesting mix of technologies / languages: python, cold fusion (if your inclined), ruby / rails, etc.
I hope they continue to operate as they do, but having experienced other hosts degrade from excellent to crap, i'm not throwing all my eggs into this basket; and to reiterate, a hosting registry might be a useful supplement this site.
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a registry of hosting providers
...would be a great idea!
As to why Blacksun, i selected them, in part, due to the issue Mark was facing w/ his technical support. Blacksun operate solely (as far as i can tell) out of Regina, Sask., and i) are responsive to most technical queries, and ii) there's not much in the way of a cultural/language layer to work through (which i think was an issue facing Mark in relation to his support issues). In a couple cases, i had to escalate technical issues past front line support at Blacksun, but that didn't involve too much hand-wringing on either end.
Along w/ PHP-5 and MySQL, their plans offer a pretty interesting mix of technologies / languages: python, cold fusion (if your inclined), ruby / rails, etc.
I hope they continue to operate as they do, but having experienced other hosts degrade from excellent to crap, i'm not throwing all my eggs into this basket; and to reiterate, a hosting registry might be a useful supplement this site.