Looking to signup with a new host. How is this one?

[Maverick]

You WILL NOT get burned by Futurequest. I'd be willing to venture that most of us FQers have had problems with one or more other companies in the past and came here to get away from the dishonest or incompetent web hosts. Go for it, you won't be sorry.

[J. Dudgeon]

My decision is down to two hosting companies.  FutureQuest.com, due to its reputation and this forum, and HostPro.com, for its waiving of the $40.00 setup fee + free domain pointer ($10 one-time charge waived).

I'm leaning towards FutureQuest.com due to the quality of service that is visibly apparent on these forums.  Still $50 USD (about $110 CAN) is still something I can't ignore.  

Ugh.  Decisions, decisions.  My biggest concern is that I do not want to be burned again.

I'll wait for some more responses before making my decision.

Thanks for the reply Maverick.

Joel Dudgeon
Consultant
MCP

Unisys Canada
joel.dudgeon@ca.unisys.com
jdudgeon@home.com
[This message has been edited by J. Dudgeon (edited 05-23-00@3:02 pm)]

[jimbo]

Refer to this thread:

http://www.aota.net/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001035-1.html

That should answer all your questions.  As far as I'm concerned, FutureQuest has a customer for life in me.

[JoeRT]

I started my web site December of 1998.  Between then and July of 1999 (just seven months) I went through a number of web hosts (none of them being the one you mentioned).  I ended up leaving each one either because of poor service, ignorant technical support, significant down time, slow connection speeds, lack of availablility of services as my site grew and inability of the technical staff to fulfill what the sales staff had promised.  I have now been with FQ since July of 1999 and have no intention of moving.

Any more questions?  

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Joe Torsitano
www.weatherforyou.com
www.tiswest.com

[J. Dudgeon]

Nope it looks like I'm joining FutureQuest.com

Another feature that I noticed about FQ is the fact that I can pay monthly.  This gives me a feeling of security that, if for whatever reason I don't like FQ, I haven't payed for two additional months.

The ONLY problem I'm seeing is that I'm going to have to learn PHP   I know Pascal, Java, Visual Basic, bit of Perl, a lot of C/C++, and a good grasp of SQL.  Hopefully its not too much trouble to learn PHP.

Thanks for all reassurances.  As soon as I get home I'm going to submit a request to NSI to transfer my domain to FQ DNS servers and then I'm going to signup.

Once last question that I do have (probably will require someone from billing to answer):

Will there be tax on the monthly service charge?  I'm not familiar with the tax situation in the US (specifically Florida).

Thanks.

Joel Dudgeon
Consultant
MCP

Unisys Canada
joel.dudgeon@ca.unisys.com
jdudgeon@home.com

[Justin]

I know Pascal, Java, Visual Basic, bit of Perl, a lot of C/C++, and a good grasp of SQL.

You should find PHP to be a snap - it is basically a combination of all of the above languages (C-style syntax, some Basic-derrived functions, Perl-like regex's).

Will there be tax on the monthly service charge?

The price you pay is the price listed - as far as US law, internet services fall under the same laws as a mail-order business would.

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest Support

[J. Dudgeon]

Well count me in then   It will be nice to have a good host...

I'm on my way to transfer my domain name now and sign-up.  Thanks for all the feedback!

Joel

[J. Dudgeon]

Well, I've signed-up.  I submitted my activation via the weblink but I haven't received the 'welcome aboard' email yet.  I'm assuming that will come after my domain transfer goes through.

Is it just me or is NetworkSolutions' method of submitting changes the most annoying and error prone method out there?
Everytime I submit a change it always comes back that the email address is not correct.  I checked my email address as it is on the Contact Form and the entry is correct.  The only difference is that NetworkSolutions keeps capitalizing the domain portion of my email addy.  I submitted it as jdudgeon@home.com and NSI comes back with jdudgeon@HOME.com
Since the FROM portion of my email is all lower case, I wonder if NSI's form parser is case-sensitive.  If it is they should stop capitalizing the information I enter.

Anyhow hopefully everything goes smoothly.

In regards to payment, when do I make my first payment?

Joel 

[J. Dudgeon]

Just got a confirmation from NSI.  Looks like the host transfer went smoothly (at least the information update).

Cool.

Joel

[J. Dudgeon]

Oh I just wanted to say that the only reason I'm starting with a basic account is to get a feel for FQ.  Once I'm confident of their service I'll be moving to a Silver or Gold level (probably Gold for mySQL support).

Thanks.

Joel