Just got this msg from Featureprice, my web host company. they seem to be going out of business. I already have paid for the year, which would have been up for renewal soon. Don't know where to turn, my webpage is Frontpage and I already have 123 mb of disk space used on just the one webpage. Most of these are offering only minimal disk space and larger traffic!
Any ideas for a new host?
I mostly upload pictures to my site so the space has to large. Through Featureprice I only was paying $10 a month for 5 GB of space, which I would have never used.
Help need to change in 14 days and have no dea what I am doing.Quoted from the 'Web Host Industry Review' ( thewhir.com/marketwatch/sws012303.cfm )
"FeaturePrice Rejects Bids, Shuts Down
May 9, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In a rare instance of what appears to be one man walking away from a million dollar payday, FeaturePrice appears to have disintegrated amidst strange behavior and customer outcry.
Rumors of the Ft. Meyers, Fl.-based Web hosting firm being troubled have circulated for months, helped in part by Travis Johnson, co-founder of the firm, who reportedly shut down the site in April to post an open letter informing customers that the company had closed and that clients had two weeks to evacuate. Since then, the site has switched on and off almost daily...."
>From FeaturePrice's website:
"All clients are recommended to move within the next 14days.
All sites and servers will be left online while we are closing down. All clients are requested to download all files and here is a list of Companies that have been to visit Featureprice and have not been able to reach any deal that would allow a smooth migration to their services."
The sites:
#1 http://GlobalHost.com : 7 months free and no sign-up fee for Featureprice customers
(starting at $9.95 per month)
#2 http://Atlantic.net : 2 months free and $19.95 sign-up fee
(starting at $13.95 per month)
#3 http://Ipowerweb : no sign-up fee, no free months
(starting at $7.95 per month)
#4 http://Server4you.com : Free sign-up and 3 months free for Featureprice customers, but you can't sign up yet (their site is collecting email addresses of people who want to sign up eventually)
(no pricing information, this is a German company)
#5 http://Affinity.com : No clear offer. They seem to be a group of hosts, rather than a single web host.
Retrieved from FeaturePrice's support page, 4/22/03. Converted to HTML and given its own page 4/29/03. All errors left intact.
(((BEGINNING OF FEATUREPRICE PAGE CONTENT)))
Featureprice.com / Hosting-Network, Inc. Is Closing Business April 2003.
Featureprice's Closing is NOT BY ITS DECISION. It is due to Nova Information Systems (merchantconnect.com) "holding" the revenues from featureprice. Featureprice has not seen a penny since the "hold" and FP must shutdown since it has no money, no realized revenues. FP cannot pay employees or anything due to Nova's position.
FP tried to work with many companies, none of which where willing to "assume liabilities" and that placed all the deals in the trash can. FP tried to work with many creative ideas. So this is NOT FP's wishes to shutdown, the decision is not ours to make.
All clients are recommended to move within the next 14days
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This message was edited Thursday, May 15th 6:53 PM
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