Comments on: Hosting: Dragging Down Profits so Consolidating

By: Changing Web Hosts - eXtra For Every Publisher

Changing Web Hosts - eXtra For Every Publisher — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:36:15 +0000

[...] after finally deciding that I am going to bring all my sites under one roof (see Hosting: Dragging Down Profits so Consolidating), I went on a hunt to find the best web hosting I could under the needs I had listed, and after [...]

By: Ajith Prasad Edassery

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:45:01 +0000

I am with hostmonster shared hosting and more than happy with what I am getting for $5.99

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:18:27 +0000

Yeah you should do some searches on them. I’m sure they are not perfect but I have been very pleased with them since day one. They’re pretty clued up on blog scripts etc too, particularly ones which cause problems, conflicts and heavy load etc

By: David

David — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:15:30 +0000

Brad – Honestly, for how much web hosting you use, you could probably find A Small Orange’s $25/year 75mb space, 3gb BW a month sufficient, no?

Jacob – I don’t like Dreamhosts control panel, I find their service to be reasonable, but not great. I won’t host there again.

John Cow – Pimping affiliate stuff to the end eh? Thanks for the suggestion though.

Kevin – Heavily considering WiredTree now. Will have to do more research on them.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:06:53 +0000

I’ve had a dedicated server for the last 4 or 5 years so I don’t have any shared hosting companies I can recommend.

I am currently using WiredTree and whilst they are a little more expensive that a lot of alternatives, their support is the best. Normally I get a response to a support ticket within 5 minutes. Infact, I can’t recall ever waiting longer than that.

They do also have VPS solutions starting at $49 a month so I would recommend checking them out.

Good luck

By: John Cow

John Cow — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:02:33 +0000

I’m very satisfied with Top Hosting Center. You can even use my discount coupon for 15% monthly recurring discounts Pick a plan for a year, and you’ll receive 3 fee months.

http://www.johncow.com/want-discounts-weve-got-tons/

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:39:13 +0000

I can offer up a rec for Dreamhost.

Been using them for only a few months, but I have had no complaints. They had issues with one email server awhile back, but I wasn’t affected. I am not sure how long service was down, but they made up for it by offering refunds to many customers.

The service is very personal, and I feel like I could eventually get all my hosting from them.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:34:14 +0000

I don’t really have a recommendation, and although I use Vortexhost for now, and it’s been GREAT, it is a bit pricier than I’d like. I may end up looking for new hosting just to save a few $$$.

By: David

David — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:00:17 +0000

Duncan – I was looking at their service. I had bad experiences with Plesk about 5 years ago now, but their control panel looks MUCH improved, and I don’t HAVE to have SSH, but I do enjoy having it when the host permits it. Thanks for weighing in on this.

BillM – It uses around 15GB a month in bandwidth. Or around 500mb a day. And yeah, you read it right. Though the last two days it averaged 30k page views, so its still in a growth phase.

Total across all of my sites, I am going to need around 25GB a month in BW… so not too bad in that respect, but it needs to handle a total of around 50k page views a day.

By: BillM

BillM — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:37:19 +0000

How much bandwidth does this translate to you needing? I had no idea this blog had 20k views a day? Did I read that right?

That’s HUGE, at least it is by my standards.