Comments on: Five things Mosso Web Hosting can do to improve

By: Alan Prestige

Alan Prestige — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:40:55 +0000

Just what I was looking for, this was very helpful, thanks.

By: jfountain

jfountain — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:58:42 +0000

You can scratch 1. and 2. off the list here Mosso added Cron jobs and directory restricted ftp access.

By: Jamie Huskisson : 10 things I love about Mosso web hosting

Jamie Huskisson : 10 things I love about Mosso web hosting — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:12:44 +0000

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By: Richard Davies

Richard Davies — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:49:37 +0000

To add to Jamie and RickÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â´s discussion of UK vs. US hosting, ElasticHosts are a UK-based competitor to Mosso, providing UK-based virtual servers for all PC operating systems along with a complete suite of web hosting services. Our virtual servers are controlled from a simple web interface, which allows users to instantly scale up or down and to take snapshots of the entire running machine state for backup.

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:51:48 +0000

I’m researching Mosso for a possible switch. I actually live in San Antonio where they and RackSpace are based. I have seen some postings at other websites about slow loading and an email outage that last for a few days. Is that correct?

On your manual billing issues, have you checked out freshbooks.com?

Steven

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:31:44 +0000

Hey Ross,

I don’t use their automated billing system no as I heard it was pretty poor. I arrange payment via PayPal myself :)

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:54:37 +0000

Hi Jamie

I’m in the UK too. Just wondering if you’d used Mosso’s client billing? In the knowledge base they say that you have to have a US domestic bank account. Is this the case? How did you get round this?

Cheers

Ross

By: Anthony Barba

Anthony Barba — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:00:08 +0000

First, I love the design of your blog, kudos. I found your site from Web Hosting Talk because I’m planning to move our websites (asp/sql) this month and Mosso seems to be a possible choice. I didn’t know about the cron job part, so thank you. I really wish that Mosso will work for us too.

Jan Horna: I just called Netfirms and got a really bad feeling when the salesperson told me they couldn’t make outgoing sales calls.

By: Jan Horna

Jan Horna — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:04:36 +0000

Hi guys, what do you think about http://www.netfirms.com/enterprise-hosting/ compared to Mosso?

By: Jan Horna

Jan Horna — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:11:19 +0000

Hi Rick, I also plan using Mosso (from the Central Europe) and hope there will be no delays etc. Regarding this issue, please see http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph?site=www.mosso.com.

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:25:45 +0000

Yeah Media Temple seems like it’s having quite a few problems lately. You’ll also have no problems with Mosso’s support team.. they are the best I’ve encountered

By: Rick Curran

Rick Curran — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:46:15 +0000

Hi Jamie,
Thanks for the feedback. I started using US based hosting years ago and I remember it always seemed to be fine (although I was inexperienced with hosting in general then!). I tried out MediaTemple’s Grid Server and thought it seemed to get slower during the day and had put it down to the trans-atlantic hop, though as it turns out I think that was actually MediaTemple having teething troubles with their system.

The Mosso site itself seems fast and they also gave me a demo login for the Control panel. I was concerned about the support being in US but as it’s 24/7 it doesn’t seem to be a problem. I don’t think it can get any worse than the support I get for a VPS that I’m using now.

Thanks again,

Rick

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:14:03 +0000

Hey Rick,

You’ll typically find 90% of hosting is in the US anyway, most sites you view (besides the obvious such as bbc.co.uk) you’ll be seeing from servers in America.

Besides a short terrible time with a UK based host I’ve used US based hosting my entire time on the internet. There’s no delays in the service and it’ll typically load instantly just as any other site would :)

By: Rick Curran

Rick Curran — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:06:05 +0000

Hi,
I came across your site looking for people’s comments about using Mosso as a hosting company. I understand you’re in the UK I think? How have you found it using a US based company for hosting sites? I really like their service but unsure about whether there will be any noticeable delays serving sites / email delivery etc. Any thoughts about this would be very helpful!

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:26:28 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron Wikipedia call them crontabs – go figure

By: forrestRain

forrestRain — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:34:14 +0000

Hi Jamie,

Thanks for the review again :)

Any good sites u know that i can learn more about Cron jobs?

By: Jan Horna

Jan Horna — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:08:40 +0000

I see :) Now it’s clear to me, fortunately FTP access works like I would need. I’m just waiting for .NET 2.0 support ;)

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:37:02 +0000

No no Jan not at all – you can setup username/passwords for the seperate accounts and that’s what people use to manage their individual accounts.

My problem is that you can’t setup another username/password on top of that to access an individual folder inside the account for things like file uploading etc.

By: Jan Horna

Jan Horna — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:29:56 +0000

Hi, thanks for the Mosso insight. I am thinking about transfering my 25 web sites to Mosso. Some of the web sites are administered by clients. Does this mean if I send them FTP username/password, they are able to access all the web sites on my account? As far as I understand it is possible :/