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.
May 27th, 2007 at 6:25 am
http://www.cheapvps.co.uk/?page_id=8 , they seem very good, except their support gets rusty for anything more than you should be asking.
But I’m wondering - if you chose not to use WordPress, you’d be fine with a 128MB RAM system ;-]
May 27th, 2007 at 4:37 am
If I were you I’d go to the one that hosts FreelanceSwitch. Really, I’ve seen them got Dugg a several times and still I get them fast and I’m using a dial-up internet connection!
May 27th, 2007 at 4:27 am
What about http://www.textdrive.com/
They’re not cheap, but their service isn’t either as far as I’ve heard.
A List Apart is hosted there.
May 27th, 2007 at 4:05 am
wow! its something new. i was considering media template as best host around infact i was thinking to switch to mt but now i should give it a thought. Nick i am using dreamhost but its not a very good host atleast for you.
May 27th, 2007 at 3:22 am
I moved to Jumpline a few months ago. Very happy with the service provided so far.
May 27th, 2007 at 2:11 am
i think u should try ixwebhosting.com
May 27th, 2007 at 1:17 am
Dreamhost, Hostgator, or Bluehost will not able to handle it for sure because they are shared host level. I need at least dedicated virtual hosting. Any other suggestions?
May 27th, 2007 at 12:49 am
I use BrainServers.net but i think your needs might be a little higher then what they are used to. You could send them an email about getting a custom plan though.
May 27th, 2007 at 12:26 am
Supporter of Blue host is ……….. T_T
Dream Host is the best choice
May 27th, 2007 at 12:23 am
The Problem with MediaTemple is that they dont run the MySQL server locally on each of those grid-server systems, it runs on a seperate system and it handles requests from a lot of grid-servers for SQL queries, WHICH IS CRAP!!
Thats what i found out from the Php dept. at my work. Its not confirmed