I emailed one OCS customer who had left a favorable review, then sent a “pre-sales, semi-technical” query to OCS. And got a nice reply.

I’m somewhere else right now, with one site up almost two years with basically zero problems, and the second one mysteriously unavailable sometimes. Then the whole server disappeared twice in one week, and technical support has basically told me they don’t really care. (I.e., it’s my job to find and document server problems, and then tell them how to fix them. And I’ve been warned never ever to ask about anything that even gets close to an application programming or configuration question.) Cool.

Today I found an answer to one problem in the OCS wiki. For a while I’d thought I really was an idiot, but it turned out to be a tiny configuration change. So I’ll probably switch to them.

There is an interesting new discussion of hosting companies at “Pearsonified.” Seems like almost everyone has sites that wink off and back on again, so maybe I’m not imagining that either. (See http://www.pearsonified.com/2007/11/three_web_hosting_tips.php)

Part II: If you ever post about setting up dedicated servers, I’d be in your audience.

Thanks.