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.
July 14th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
cool background
July 14th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Check www.icdsoft.com.
July 11th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Very helpful information about MT!
July 10th, 2007 at 7:51 am
http://www.layeredtech.com/ - It’s unmanaged but I can recommend a great server admin. We use bandwidth in hundreds or terabytes per month, so have had every version of hosting problem you can imagine. Apparently one of the big search engines host here.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:50 am
I Strongly recommend Powweb. Is the hosting where my homepage is and it has a perfect service. Better than always webhosting and amen.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:18 am
thank you for the commetns
jessica chan
July 5th, 2007 at 7:08 am
I’d say bluehost is the best one!
try this:
http://www.bluehost.com/track/rbntu/joomla
July 4th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Hi,
I recommend you to try www.bluehost.com,
their service is very good, but the price is very cheap.
http://www.book-printing.cn
June 24th, 2007 at 3:26 am
kim: 1and1.com is way overpriced for what they offer I have used them in the past and I personally dont care for there pricing scemes
June 22nd, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I’ve had similar issues with Media Temple. I just switched my company and clients over to Mosso about a week now, nothing to complain about so far *knock on wood*