Comments on: Pair Networks experiences

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:45:58 +0000

Hi Tony. 40 installs? Sounds like WPMU is something you'd like? I'll agree that the number of databases is a little low, but then again Pair isn't one of those 'unlimited everything' type hosts that oversell everything hundredfold. I'm using only about 5 right now, with related blogs sharing databases. 30 is plenty for me.I've recently moved to running WP under cgi-wrap, and it works well for my blog. I'm using WP Super Cache, so even if WP uses more memory (I've seen no errors) it won't do so very often. For me, the convenience of being able to upgrade from withing WP was well worth it.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:05:21 +0000

I have recently switched my travel website to using around 40 installations of WP over 5 databases. One problem with Pair is the limited number of databases available per account (30 in a developer account). I had to aggressively optimise my set-ups – I use wp-minify, hyper-cache – and reduced calls by using absolute server links where possible. I haven’t got into css-sprites yet (am a bit doubtful about efficacy) although the studiopress derived theme I have uses a few images.

After a few initial hiccups – the use of a twitter plug-in which had problems with its external url reduction site caused a disastrous intermittent access problem which varied from country to country – things seem to be running quite smoothly now, and I’m quite pleased with the speed. We’re continuing to roll out the blogs but currently the load is quite light, so it remains to be seen how things progress…

One thing: Wp automatic upgrades do not work on Pair unless I am advised you run php via cgi-wrap. However, I also read that this causes wp to become a memory hog which doesn’t sound hopeful. Has anybody else got experience of this?

Tony Page

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:14:44 +0000

@David S: WP works great on Pair. They never told me it wouldn’t, but they did express their concerns about how WP is a fully dynamic system. I use WP-Super-Cache to solve that, and one of my posts made it to the front page on Digg yesterday. No problem whatsoever. Pair is just being cautious, which is a good quality for a web host I guess.

By: David S

David S — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:32:49 +0000

What the? How do you get WP to work on Pair. They told me you couldn’t. You must have to be good at xhtml or css, or an expert at something, right?

By: Dimitris

Dimitris — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:23:16 +0000

Reply for Micky…

Working Thunderbird with pair email is easy.All settings are here .

http://www.pair.com/support/knowledge_base/e-mail/smtp_service_at_pair_networks.html

http://www.pair.com/support/knowledge_base/e-mail/setting_up_an_e-mail_reader.html

If still problem continues ,post a message

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By: Dimitris Markou

Dimitris Markou — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:15:48 +0000

After 8 years of web hosting experience with Pair Networks and with more than 100 business web sites hosted there i can assure everybody this provider is a No1 choice for critical or traffic demanding hosting .

Our flagship http://www.gto.gr generates more than 600GB of monthly traffic during summer months.

http://WWW.GTO.GR for 4 years now its up and running with zero problems. We host on 15 shared and a dedicated.Look no further.

Back in 2000, I was the first to try operate our 2 pair websites with an external email service. Now we host more than 100 commercial websites with pair.com but email is provided by everyone.net !
Its a dream to have worlds best web and email companies working for you the same time.

Happy to help with questiond or problems you might have !

Dimitris M.

Thank you !
Dimitris

By: Micky

Micky — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:51:02 +0000

I have recently been moved to an email setup using Pair Networks, and Im having problems setting it up in my Thunderbird email client. I previously enabled 1and1 email into it without any problems, however, pair Networks is another matter. I just cannot get the server working.

Can anyone help?

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By: rudi seiberlich

rudi seiberlich — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:03:55 +0000

Pair for me is still the best hosting company. I used them already 10 years ago when an SEO expert Jon Heard from a little town in Kansas recommeded them. and since that 100% satisfaction. Good knowledgable people.
Okay the have a few drawbacks and i would see them erased but still I know what I have but I don`t know what I get.
I host some under 100sites with them on two dedicated servers….Downtime what´s this?

Rudi
a satisfied Pair.com customer

By: Super PJ

Super PJ — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:28:05 +0000

I also use pair.com for 3 domains. No downtime for the web server or ftp, but I have a lot of users that use imap4 for their iphones and we are always getting server errors. iPhones are set to get messages once per hour and the systems seem to get the connection error a few times a hour. Most of the errors are with microsoft e-mail programs but from time to time apple mail will go nuts for a few hours too. Also from time to time we will stop having messages go out for about half a hour then all will dump at once. Today I upgraded from the HV-2 account to QS-1 because we are growing a bit faster than we planned. The overages quickly add up with them too..Daily Disk Average Usage: 34925.50 MB Disk Allowance: 30720.00 MB Disk Over-usage: 4205.50 MB (rounds up) Charge per MB: $ 0.10 /month Projected Disk Charges: $ 420.60So with all their faults I just can't ditch them because they have the best up time and are just always around for me to call and bitch.