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Re: Best Web Host

I would recommend avoiding Globat. I used them for one year as a personal web host, and their downtime and customer support were unacceptable for me. They also left register_globals on for all of their installations, and disallowed modifying it in .htaccess. Their web support panel also doesn't allow much freedom in doing a lot of things, as their tools are relatively locked in, and though easy and effective, relatively basic.

I've since been using both Dreamhost and HostRocket. DreamHost survived the Digg Effect. They also have a great control panel with almost everything you could want control over (and they have shell access). HostRocket provides roughly the same, except with cPanel over a custom application. Their hosting packages both provide roughly the same features at the same price (Multiple Domains, a Lot of Bandwidth, and a lot of Storage Space). The only reason I might recommend DreamHost more is because they allow you to choose between PHP 4 and 5 and use more modern software, while HostRocket uses relatively old versions of everything (Apache 1.3, MySQL 3, PHP4). However, HostRocket does sponsor Team 20.

Our team uses the school's servers however, due to a lot of privacy concerns and liability rules our district has. So nothing but static HTML for us.
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