Yesterday I noticed this site was sluggish for a few minutes. I worried briefly, but then forgot about it.

Lo and behold, it turns out my service, DreamHost, was the victim of an Easter DOS attack against its name servers. Thank heavens for the “Happy DreamHost Does-Not-Sleep Team.” That sort of issue is out of my league. I count on them to buffer me from all of the Internet meanies. And they do. Cheerfully. Plus they blog, so I stay informed.

For a congregation, a reliable server is critical. Assuming you aren’t serving your site yourself, you need a host that is competent and has decent customer service. A couple of years ago, we had a host that was attacked by a Trojan. We told them about it, but they disregarded us for almost a week. Then they “fixed” it — but not really. It went down again. Several weeks later it was resolved, but needless to say we went shopping.

Now we use LFC Hosting. Our congregation has ASP as well as PHP coders, and LFC can handle both. We’ve been with them almost a year without any problems. I commend both LFC and DreamHost to you.

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