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 6:33 pm
i know many people swear by dreamhost.com. looks like it may be the best one out there.
May 27th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Been reading the homepage of Slicehost. There product seam cool. The possibility of choosing your GNU/Linux distro. And if you are tired of it, just click a button, and the whole think is reset.
May 27th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
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May 27th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
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May 27th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Have a look at Heart Internet (www.heartinternet.co.uk), there best package for you would be the business professional (at approx. £132.99 a year ($263.89)) and it has more than the features you need. See: http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/business-h.shtml for more information.
May 27th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
FWIW, I have come across this post about someone leaving Mosso for Media Temple…http://urbansemiotic.com/2007/03/25/moving-back-to-media-temple-from-mosso/
Does Media Temple have a server that is larger than the one you have now? Good luck regarless, their have been some good suggestions.
May 27th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
I would recommend a managed dedicated server.
May 27th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Ni Nick have you finally chosen one?
May 27th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
What about 2A Net Hosting: Http://www.2advanced.net. It’s ain’t cheap though..
May 27th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
I have a reseller with http://resellerzoom.com/ They’ve been good to me so far but in my experience all the problems start after the first year.
I wouldn’t know how resellerzoom copes with the digg effect.
One thing I can definitly say is dont go for ace-host.net or webhost2.com! *shudders*