Good Experiences With Crucial Web Hosting
| Customer Name | Tony L. |
| Customer Domain | keenanthony.com |
| Customer Since | June 17, 2006 |
| Submitted On | June 29, 2006 |
I am a software developer and writer who was looking for inexpensive web hosting for a supporting a PHP-based blog and some Python programming. I found Crucial Web Hosting to be very impressive. The basic shared hosting tier (at the time of my subscription) offered 2 GB of disk space with 20 GB of bandwidth for just $1.99 a month.
I already had my own domain, so I didn't take advantage of Crucial's own registration and domain privacy services. Setting up web hosting with them was painless.
Crucial uses PHP4 on Apache 1.3. I preferred PHP5 on Apache 2.0, however, that was not available at the time of my subscription. Crucial told me they were working on a next generation competitively priced system that would have these features, and would migrate me over at no cost once available.
Crucial did not have mod_python, which is understandable, but Python was available via CGI. Java JSP was also available. Crucial uses Tomcat 5.5.9 with Java 1.5.0. I wasn't able to test it out however. When I discovered I needed access to cURL and XML for a PHP script, tech support set it up for me and contacted me within minutes on a Saturday afternoon.
For personal web hosting, I highly recommend Crucial Web Hosting for its support and server performance.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to maintain my subscription because I have some development going on, and was planning to use my site for testing both Python and Rails. Crucial does not offer Ruby on Rails, though the tech support said it was under discussion. As I was within my 30-day trial period, Crucial promptly refunded me my subscription (I had paid annually via PayPal).
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