Looking for a Better Host
May 26th, 2007 Filed in: News & Updates Jump to commentsI’m looking for a better hosting company to host my sites. Do you have any good ones to recommend? This site and Best Web Gallery are hosting at Media Temple, 512mb dedicated-virtual server. Lately, my sites have been down almost every day. I’m getting very frustrated with Media Temple and I want to move out. I’m tired of restarting my server (VPS) everyday.
Their tech supports told me that my WordPress sites use too much SQL and CPU resources and I should upgrade to higher hosting plan. But I already upgraded three times since hosting with them: from SS (shared hosting) to GS (Grid-Service), then GS to 256mb DV, and now 512mb DV plan. My site has proved that they can’t handle the Digg Effect. Recently I got dugg twice and my site was down immediately as soon it made popular to Digg front page. So, I don’t think upgrading will make any difference. I think it is time to move and find a better host.
Host Requirements
I’m looking for any fast performance host that can support:
- WordPress
- multi-sites hosting
- 500,000+ visitors/month
- 2+ million pageviews/month
- 500GB+ bandwidth/month
What have I found?
I’ve been doing a lot of research and found some highly recommend hosts.
1. Slicehost
Collis at FreelanceSwitch recommends Slicehost to me. They seem to handle WordPress and Digg effect very well. FreelanceSwitch got dugg several times and able to survive without any downtime. However, the waiting list to sign up at Slicehost is between 2 to 12 weeks.
2. Mosso
Uneasysilence switched from Media Temple to Mosso and it has been very stable. Mosso uses their "clustering technology routes each site request to not just one server, but through an army of load balanced IIS and Apache webservers." Everything sounds too good for just $100/month. Has anyone tried their services?
3. Servint
I found Servint through some hosting forums. I have very little information about Servint and would like to hear your inputs.
Have you experienced with any of these hosts? What do you think about them? Or you have better ones to recommend to me. Please post your comments.
June 15th, 2007 at 4:29 am
i think u must choose the best for u as far i think host monster is good it,s a pretty new company with affordable hosting budget
http://www.hostmonster.com/track/ahmed/CODE3
June 6th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I currently host on the MT grid platform and was thinking about upgrading to their dedicated virtual. I guess I’ll look elsewhere. I too am tired of the outages but haven’t had time to move.
June 4th, 2007 at 7:33 am
I would absolutely have to say Voxxit/VoxRox. Voxxit is good for managed servers, while VoxRox is for you to manage yourself — from VPS to dedicated servers. They are owned by the same company, and can be found at http://www.voxxit.com/ and http://www.voxrox.com/. I am with them myself and have had nothing but tremendous experiences with them. Feel free to e-mail me if you need any further info. The price is certainly worth it.
June 4th, 2007 at 12:16 am
[…] 前几天N.Design Studio因为Digg效应正在寻找更好的Host（他原来用的是MediaTemple），今天去他的Blog看，发现他已经搬到了新家：ImHosted，马上去那里看了看，发现条件很诱人啊，除了没有第一年的超级优惠政策，其他都比Dreamhost强，不知道实际效能如何，但访问N.Design Studio感觉比以前要快，有点后悔续约DH了 […]
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Hello everyone,
Thanks for all the comments. I no longer need to find a new host. www.imhosted.com is now my hosting sponsor. Please read this post for more details.
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:16 pm
www.1and1.com is awesome. My developers have been using them since 2004 and none of the sites have ever been down. My agency has used them for every web project since then too. Check them out.
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:08 am
You could always try THEPLANET.com, they have a great selection of different servers to choose from. GoDaddy.com might be able to serve your needs as well.
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Oh yeah, their web address is zzhosting.com. It doesn’t look like much, but their hosting packages are great. ^_^
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I’ve had a really good experience with ZZ Hosting: my sites have been up every day since last September, I have 20GB of space and 100TB of transfer for $8.50 per month. Not a bad deal, really, plus I can host all my sites there. :)
Griffin
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Not many hosts can handle the digg or slashdot effect without some extra setup… Those are literally DDoS attacks on the server. The more popular the article is the worse the “attack.”
You should go with a dedicate server, not a VPS or anything lower. A decent dedicate server can handle everything you asked and more. Go with a big company with a lot of resources behind. There isn’t much wiggle room when it comes to dedicated server pricing. You get what you pay for.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ is a good place to start looking.
If you expect more digg type of traffic, you need to let the host company know ahead of time, if possible. A good company can take some measures to (try to) prevent the traffic from overwhelming the server.
Sorry for repeating if it’s already mentioned, too many pages of comment to read…
Good luck.