Anyone using Brinkster

Does anyone here host with Brinkster? If so, are you happy with them? Why or why not? I'm considering hosting some personal stuff there. (on their windows servers)

never used brinkster ... i use 1asphost for my personal stuff (windows). except 1asphost.com doesn't allow and filesystemobjects on their servers ... for the most part it's okay for what i need.

So no one is using Brinkster? I'm also considering hostnexus. Anyone use their windows hosting?

I am using asphost4free and happy with them so far.

Thanks...welcome to ASPFree! (unless you message is SP@M )

Thanks a lot
By the way, do you know how to create a DSN-less connection in a shared hosting environment

check out:
http://www.connectionstrings.com

I use Dreamhost for my personal site. Been with them for several years and have had no problems at all.

Is this a Windows host?

No. Below is a quote from their site explaining why.

"Our choice to not provide Microsoft operating systems for any of our hosting products is one that is a common subject of inquiry. We feel strongly that the best products available for the job of serving Internet content are those based on UNIX TM, and that the efforts of the open source community specifically (Linux, Apache, MySQL and so on) are best of breed. To use any Windows or related products would be to us a vote of no confidence against the very technology that made it possible for us to compete in this industry in the first place! It turns out that once our customers give open source alternatives a chance they are overjoyed with the performance and feature set available to them. Of course, some will decide to go with someone else, and we respect their decision. Our only request is that if in the future the need ever does arise for a Unix-based solution they'll give us another shot!

Sorry I am late,
I using brinkster and 1asphost too.

din like both of them hehe

http://skycho.brinkster.net
http://d.1asphost.com/stevenchoon

if paid service all are good, my opinion is for the free services, well maybe other might like them

I am with brinkster for several years, started with a free package. Since my bandwidth usage was too much quite often I upgraded to the paid personal package. The bandwidth statistics never worked in the admin section, they didnt fix it after complaining about that. Later they were changing packages in June 2006. My package would no longer be available. I could not upgrade since then the url would change and I rely on my incoming links and I could not downgrade to personal since it has too less bandwidth. For the URL issue, which was the most important I said it should degrade to personal again for holding urls. But it is now october and the personal package seems to be still running and I am still paying for it (although it shouldnt be available). But so far the small annoyances, the bigger is their terms of service. I have some users on my website which have posted their image, which is not hosted by brinkster, on my page. The image contains some nudity (where nudity is still quite descent, no genitals e.g.), therefor I moved the whole page to another hosting company and linked it in the menu. Then there was no nudity on their pages, but now it seems that I may not have hyperlinks to remote sites that are not complying with their TOS. Theoretically this would even mean you may not have hyperlinks to Google.com, because even Google.com is not complying with their strict TOS. They can have hyperlinks (when searching or using directory of Google) to partly nude content. No nudity on their accounts is something I can understand, although it seems to be far to strict to me, but the demands on the hyperlinked remote content are far too extreme in my opinion. The only reason that I stayed so far is thatI make money by the visitor which link to that brinkster url. But it is a huge effort to stay in line with their TOS. Therefore, be free, no brinkster!