Mission
J. J. & A. Hosting IS...
...a web hosting provider created by 3 guys that were fed up with the so called cheap Internet hosting companies to the point where starting our service seemed to be absolutely necessary....fast. More than anything we stress performance more than total space or bandwidth claims. Here is a simple analogy : Would you prefer to drive a Ford Escort towing an 18 wheeler or a Porsche 911 on the Autobahn?
...month to month. We do not force you into a one or multi year contract. We feel the bottom line is customers want their website to work and work quickly. If they are satisfied why would they move? If you feel like the server isn't performing to your expectations – leave. Plain and simple. We are not out to hassle anyone or scam anyone. Try out our cheap plan first if you want. If you don't want to stay tell us. There is nothing worse than trying to cancel with a horrible provider who you may have registered your domain name through and now they won't let you cancel because 7 days has passed – didn't you read the fine print!? Have fun paying for a transfer fee and spending hours on hold with their "Wonderful Support Department"
...database friendly. We do not implement any maximum connections per user or anything like that on our DB server largely because it is stored locally on the machine that the site itself will be running on. Many hosts keep these servers on a separate part of their network because they claim it would be too strenuous on a machine to manage MySQL as well as Apache with PHP. This is partially accurate : It would be too strenuous on their machines because they are generally already overloaded with too many clients on the same machine. So instead they pick out a few machines to be "Database Server" and then cram them to the limit with databases. Go download a copy of WAMP (Windows based Apache MySQL PHP) and install it on an old clunker lying around your home or office. We assure you it's not that hard on resources and it is the same software we run here except we are Linux based which also consumes less resources than a traditional Windows based machine. We used to have a web development and testing machine that ran on WAMP on a 433MHz junker no problem. Clearly we are not going to openly invite abuse onto our network but given you are staying within your resource limits there is no reason why we need to shut down your site because – "They had 10 db connections at the same time!" That is not something you will find us saying – though we have been told that by some "reputable" hosting companies.
J. J. & A. Hosting IS NOT...
...like most cheap hosts. We have dealt with numerous hosts that have little ad websites all over the net claiming they have great service and responsive servers and networks. When they host thousands and thousands of sites creating fake sites to promote their own is just one more form of nearly free publicity for them....a domain registrar. We do not offer domain registration services. We highly recommend using a service like GoDaddy. Everyone here uses them – and why not? They have great prices, and they get the job done perfectly. Why would you want to register your domain with some hosting provider who might hold on to it when you are done with them or take forever to deal with. We try to stay away from things we have disliked about providers in the past and this is definately something we didn't like.
...selling resource claims only. Other sites will tempt you with offers of tons of resources and bandwidth but try one of their plans and see how you like it. Browse around one of their servers if you can. See how many websites they cram on the same box. Typically you can find a list of folders containing all the sites one directory level up from your user directory on a given server. It is not uncommon to find 50–100 sites (folders) on one low resource (e.g. Low cost CPU/RAM) machine. They will tell you "We will give you 200GB of transfer and 5GB of space for the low low price of $8 a month." But what they aren't doing is telling you that you will be sharing those resources along with the other 60 people on that same machine and network connection. We have had PHP Nuke and WordPress based sites that have taken 60 seconds or longer to generate the index page on these type of hosts during peak browsing hours. How many times you have waited 60 seconds for a page to load while surfing the net?
