GrokThis: Powerful and Reliable Web Hosting
Before this sounds like an advertisement instead of an article, let's state right at the outset that we don't use GrokThis' services. One of our higher-up employees did - prior to working at this company - but Overmortal itself has never used them. This blog post is being written as an examination of offerings and past services rendered. Take it as you will.
One thing that you can definitely say about GrokThis is that they try their hardest to accommodate all the latest frameworks, supporting ASP.NET (through Mono), Catalyst, Python/Django, FastCGI, HTML::Mason, Jiffy, Plone, Ruby on Rails, Zope, and many more. In fact, if you need a framework and it's not already installed, GrokThis' head guru Eric Windisch will jump at the opportunity to help you set that framework up. This is definitely a company that works with its customers to tailor make great solutions.
GrokThis is run by IT guys and programmers, so it's easy to see why they support so much and take great pride in their customer service. Based out of Philadelphia, PA, customers on the East coast get extremely fast bandwidth - more so than most other East coast hosting facilities. And don't let the location fool you, their overall web site bandwidth isn't too bad either.
Most recently GrokThis has gotten into the virtualization business with their VPS Village and the Perl module Cloud::Infrastructure. You can look for bright things from them in the future in these categories.
GrokThis is actually a rare company. It's one that can help the little guy get his project off the ground, but at the same time, turn around and help larger businesses stay scalable and reliable.
