Review of the webhost one.com
I’ve been a customer of one.com for over 4 years now (started: 08-11-04) and I’ve been very pleased so far. I hasn't had a lot of support cases and emails regarding the service or uptime from one.com
Though the years one.com has upgraded it’s offers from time to time and each time I and other old customers have been upgraded as well, for that I’m sure we all are very grateful.
Even though one.com is a nice, reliable and fast host it still has some lacks and the one of them that has been most frustrating has got be the fact that you CAN NOT connect to the MySQL server externally. The first year of my subscription with one.com I didn’t really use the MySQL at all since I was a HTML kid who didn’t got broadband yet and therefore did all my server-scripting (with a database) at home on a private local server. But the problem was shown it’s UGLY face each and every time I’m doing a new project on my one server for a change.
The main problem is really that I’m a desktop- and not a all-browser-guy. Summed up: I DOSN’T LIKE phpMyAdmin at all, in any way what so ever. I uses the desktop administrative tools from MySQL.com which I find a lot more useful. But in order to connect to your MySQL server externally, you need to know the servers IP or DNS address but even though I’ve been literally begging one.com for an IP or DNS nothing good has come out of it. So sad…
All of this frustration puts me in a kind of messy situation. I doesn't want to leave a good and reliable host for this one thing. But on the other side I doesn't want to be dependant on other peoples servers/hosts where it’s an option to connect to the MySQL externally.
So my question to you dear reader, what should I do? Should I leave my good old host one.com and jeopardize my reliable site, e-mails etc?