namecheap Hosting Rocks!

I owe my new web hosting company a big apology. I signed up for namecheap.com’s new and very cheap (<$3/month!) basic hosting package last week but never received a response with my account details. After a half dozen emails and posts to their support center and various hosting forums it turns out that Gmail was flagging their responses to me as spam. Damn. I never check that folder.

One of their support guys got me all straightened out and even bumped me up the pro package for my troubles. It turns out they responded to all of my support requests almost immediately and have been extremely helpful working out the remaining kinks; shell access wasn’t enable by default and they run sshd on a non-standard and apparently not documented port.