ksb said:
AMZ--What? I cant make heads or tails of what your trying to say...
Ok, I'll try to explain ...
From your post, it would appear that you have made the assumption that
hosts that require forum posting are more reliable which is indeed at
least partly true but there are exceptions to every rule -- Clubhost City.
We have been open for business for over 9 years and we were actually
one of the very first hosts to ever require forum posting for hosting as
a means of a population control.
Several years ago following a market shift in interest away from hosts
that require posting, we dropped all posting requirements in lieu of a lot
of new advanced technology and screening processes that sort of provide
the same purpose and functionality as the old posting requirements but
instead is a lot more transparent and operates more behind the scenes.
Regarding reliability, we advertise a 99.9% uptime but in reality, we have
actually maintained 100% perfect uptime since March 2005 thus far and
somewhere between 97% and 98% averaged out over the 8 years
preceeding that date. We were down briefly in March 2005 primarily
for a major conversion of all systems from Plesk to Cpanel and a
database crash on our own forum site.
Regarding expandibility, our standard FREE accounts come with 600 MB
of web space and 50 GB of monthly data transfer with no forum posting
requirements and no advertising.
However, we do have a second level FREE account that does require
active forum participation that comes with 1,500 MB of web space and
100 MB of monthly data transfer.
Beyond that, we have several paid commercial shared hosting plans,
reseller accounts, VDS accounts, and dedicated server accounts up
to 500 GB that your FREE account could be seamlessly upgraded into
without any downtime for you during the upgrade.