My final part of my hosting blog is going to talk a bit about irc hosting providers.  I have had a few shell hosts and thought I'd share my opinions about them.

I will be talking about serverorigin, shellfx, outlandz, and sh3lls. 


First, the worst shell company that I can talk about is serverorigin. (serverorigin.com)  A friend of mine had them before I did and warned me not to sign up because their support quit answering questions and he kept getting billed for his shell although he tried asking them to cancel it.  Unfortuantely, I didn't take the warning and got them based on other good reviews I found on google.  It took them a week to get me a login, and when I requested a cancellation, no response.  To make a long story short, Paypal got my money back.  Unfortunately, they didn't quit trying to bill me, so paypal put a stop on their account from billing me, and I got 10 threatening emails from server origin claiming they were going to the collections agency, but i responded with please cancel my account and no response, just another email saying I owe them money.  Finally those quit.  I can't stress enough to not get a Server Origin shell!

Up next is outlandz.  Once again, for podnet, we thought we would get an irc shell from this company who is the best rated shell company currently.  We did get the shell and had frequent ping outs and server reboots .  Within a month, we got our money back and didn't go back.  I would not recommend them for anything vital.

Sh3lls (sh3lls.net) is probably the best shell hosting company that I know of.  I had an account with them for a year hosting an eggdrop irc bot.  It rarely pingged out, and I have nothing bad to say about them.  Their support responded within 6 hours to most problems that I had.  I would go back to them again if I needed to.

Finally, shellfx (shellfx.net).  When I got my vps from vpslink, I needed room for a java bot, but couldn't host it because java bots require a lot of RAM.  Because of this, I went to shellfx and requested a custom account.  For the price of their normal irc shell, I am allowed to run this java bot.  It pings out once in a while, but not frequent enough to say so.  Overall, I'm very happy with their service and would recommend them also.

Thats all I have for my final installment of hosting services that I've tried.  Hopefully this helps you make the right choice in hosting!