Comments on: Shared Hosting Sucks Moved To Dedicated Virtual

By: Tim Fletcher

Tim Fletcher — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:18:53 +0000

I can promise you without a shadow of doubt that the cheapest place to buy an Apple notebook in the World is in the Siam center in Bangkok, Thailand. I got a (then) top speed 2GHz 512Mb 60Gb Macbook for £525 when the equivalent UK price was nearer £850. Naturally I also claimed the tax back when I left Thailand. Awesome.

By: Arpit Jacob

Arpit Jacob — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:09:57 +0000

@Ashwin Good to know that :)

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:53:34 +0000

@ Ramanujam,
Apple offers international warranty dude. Doesn’t matter if we get MBP/any Apple product in USA/Singapore. We’ll get support in India. I’ve confirmed this with the local Apple Care center here in Chennai.

By: Arpit Jacob

Arpit Jacob — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:09:47 +0000

@Ramanujam because I haven’t been able to find anyone willing to get it for me :(. I waited too long and I am really in need of the laptop.

By: Arpit Jacob

Arpit Jacob — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:58:56 +0000

@Ashwin you are right I have come to the same conclusion no more shared hosting for me, also currently I am hunting around for someone who can get me that Macbook Pro from the US.

@dennis yeah I know its been a long time since I posted :). Currently I am still playing around with SliceHost so far it been very good. But since its unmanaged Dedicated Virtual hosting everything needs to be done from the command line, its not for people who prefer a Control panel like Cpanel or Plesk. I brought their $20 per month package.

By: Ramanujam

Ramanujam — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:54:36 +0000

Why do you want to get in India. I got the updated Macbook thru a friend of mine in the USA. But i was not aware of the educational discounts which ashwin has mentioned :(
Another option is to travel to Singapore and get it there and it still works cheaper! Sgp is tax free for tourists….

If you are looking for the customer support i would definitely say it is not worth the extra 25k which you will have to pay.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:02:16 +0000

Not all shared hosts suck: one company that tries really hard to deliver a good service is WebFaction ( http://www.webfaction.com ). They don’t put as many people per server as other hosts so the servers tend to be faster and more stable.

By: Dennis Bjørn Petersen

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:46:35 +0000

It’s very good to see you back Arpit!

I was starting to worry about you.

Are you satisfied with SLiceHost? How much do you pay for it?

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:20:03 +0000

Unfortunately people decide on hosts seeing the “unlimited” word or Bandwidth like people buy digicam on seeing megapixels.

I also moved my blog to Dedicated Virtual 3 months back. I now regret why I didn’t move my blog earlier. It was down for 3 weeks (would you believe it!) and I was also not aware of it as I was in vacation.

Try to see if you can buy in USA and ask some one to bring along. You’ll save atleast Rs 25k. If you buy with discounts, you save an additional Rs 8k and might get a free iPod. I also got my MacBook Pro in the USA with the educational discounts ($200 off and a free iPod Nano – for students and faculty) for Rs 72k whereas it costs Rs 1.05 Lac in Chennai/India.

By: Arpit Jacob

Arpit Jacob — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:59:57 +0000

@Kanak Bhandari yep the completely banned me. I had to ask them to give me access to backup my data. :( sucks big time.