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 28th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
I’ve been using WestHost (www.westhost.com) for quite a while now and I’ve never had problems with them. They have very good customer support as well.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:02 am
I’m thinking about switching hosts too - granted my requirements aren’t as high as this site’s, but I’ve been developing a new version, using a sub-domain of my existing host and it’s crashed maybe 10 times over the weekend while updating various files.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:59 am
heh -> www.spookedout.com
Great! :p
May 28th, 2007 at 8:21 am
How about Site5, http://www.site5.com/ ?
May 28th, 2007 at 5:45 am
yahoo!
May 28th, 2007 at 5:38 am
http://www.ukhost4u.com/dedicated.html maybe?
May 28th, 2007 at 4:31 am
I’am using Lypha.com one of the best hosting services, with great tech support.
May 28th, 2007 at 3:02 am
That link got cut off, try http://tinyurl.com/yvp93t
May 28th, 2007 at 2:58 am
At least some of the recent problems on Media Temple have been from DDOS attacks, which aren’t easy to defend against. It shows how popular they are getting though. (http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog/category/system-incidents/gs-grid-service-unavailable/)
Everyone has a favorite host they’ll link to, but “able to survive the digg effect” isn’t something you’ll see as a feature.
We’ve been with MT since late last year with very few problems. Dreamhost has a better designed control panel but the hosting is even less reliable. Still, beats the hosts with 20mb for $20/mo.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Hi,
I would strongly recommend www.joyent.com, if you are into Ruby, the hosting plan also comes with Ruby on Rails installed.