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 12:44 pm
Hostgator also offers cheap dedicated servers.
May 27th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=Nocek
Hostgator is best, I am on a shared server and have had NO downtime in over 2 years! Very cheap plans and worth every penny!
May 27th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Not sure if i needs more companies, refferals links, etc.
Everyone of us have some great experience of our host. But others can have some different experince. So if Nick is comfortable with the three listen. Check of those, and make an opinion based on the product the offer.
As writen before, I used (mt) Media Temple before. And they proved somewhat different for me. I got a great product and service. But as you can see here, Nick has experienced the bad side if (mt) Media Temple.
Make take is either Mosso or Slicehost..
May 27th, 2007 at 9:51 am
I use http://www.one.com.
It’s really cheap but also really fast,stable and execellent support
Check the website for more info
May 27th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Siteground is great and is absolutely the best support I have ever experienced. They have free domain registration, 500 gb of web space, 5000 gb traffic, and fantastico app install all for $6 a month.
Let me know if you go with them and I get a bonus.
May 27th, 2007 at 7:17 am
i recommend you www.hostgator.com, their service is awesome and i really happy with them. For real.
May 27th, 2007 at 6:35 am
I would go with mosso, especially as youre site gets dugg often and they should be able to handle this.
Milo
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.