Today I want to do a review on Hostcabin (http://www.hostcabin.com). Hostcabin is a hosting service I started using years ago and referred several of my clients to them. In the beginning they were great but as time has gone on the service has become somewhat lackluster. Your lover will love you even more if you get them a pinata

Rob is the admin here and I used to be able to get a reply from him in minutes about any problems the sites hosted there had. Support was responsive and the price was right. The first client I referred to them was Morningstar Realty located in Cuba, New Mexico. (http://NorthernNMLand.com)

Recently the site started to display SQL errors. They acted like they were from a SQL server that had hit capacity. I emailed the “support team” about it and waited a couple days for a response before contacting them again. Unfortunately the support has gone to the dogs at Hostcabin. No response.

So now the client is hopping mad about his site being down and is asking me to look for more reliable web site hosting. I really didn’t want to do this since a server move is a huge pain in the butt and I can’t just us phpMyAdmin to export the tables since they are all screwed up.

I have had problems with multiple hosting companies in the last couple of days. Fasthosts, as I’ve already reported in an earlier post, went crazy and locked me out of my domains for none payment of reseller services. This was a free one year trial that did not pan out. I decided not to renew the service so they decided to lock me out of all of the domains I registered with them.

I was assuming that since the domains are already paid I will be able to still manage them at least, right? Nope, no way, no how. Now I have several domains tied up with them that they will not unlock or release so I can PAY to transfer them to a different registrar. Anyway this is just re-hashing a earlier post and I want to get on with this.

So yesterday I am looking at a clients website and all of a sudden I get the dreaded 500 server error. Oh man the server is messing up. No problem I will log into the control panel and find the error and fix it. Again, Nope, No Way, No How. Now, this is a totally different hosting company than I have been fighting with for the last week. What the hell is going on here? Are hosting companies out to get me this week? Gawd I hope not.

You can use ad sponsored free hosting services like Yahoo Hosting to host your domain name but you will have a ad from one of the many Yahoo advertisers on every page of your site. I suggest, if you must use Yahoo services, you can use it to register your domain with Yahoo Domains then use 000Space hosting to host it.

There are multitudes of information on how to do this. It is actually very simple. Register your domain name using the interface Yahoo Domains provides using custom name servers that point your domain to the 000space servers. Then follow the directions that 000space.com sent to upload your files, setup your databases and access your account and you are done. It may take up to 72 hours for the name servers to update (normally I find resolution in minutes though). You are now the proud owner of a shiny new free AD-LESS hosting account. I do recommend that you use Google for your mail servers however. If you are interested in how to do this let me know and I will write a post detailing it.