Looking for a Better Host

May 26th, 2007 Filed in: News & Updates Jump to comments

I’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.

zigmat

# 70

May 30th, 2007 at 2:51 am

Servage:
WordPress - Good!
multi-sites hosting - Yes!
500,000+ visitors/month - Bandwidth 3600 Gb/month
2+ million pageviews/month - Bandwidth 3600 Gb/month
500GB+ bandwidth/month - Bandwidth 3600 Gb/month
Only 6.95 Euro/month
360 Gb - Space

# 69

May 30th, 2007 at 2:48 am

Recommend you Servage.com. Iam hosted there. Very good host.

Frank

# 68

May 30th, 2007 at 2:31 am

Hostdime.com is what I use. I get 400GB of space and 4000GB of bandwidth a month for only 12.99 a month. I also can host 20 domains and have unlimited MySQL databases, emails, and excellent uptime. They’re an awesome host with excellent customer service. I highly recommend them.

http://www.hostdime.com/services/shared/

Cohen

# 67

May 29th, 2007 at 9:49 pm

Hi Nick, I am with the web hosting company ‘Host Gator’ who are excellent.. I hardly ever have problems with my sites and it’s very cheap. Check them out here http://www.hostgator.com/

Max

# 66

May 29th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

Let me know when you decide. Looking to move all of my websites to a reliable host

Jacks0n xD

# 65

May 29th, 2007 at 2:31 pm

My site is hosted on www.hosting2go.nl, I know it’s Dutch but they’re good:

- 1500 MB space(1,5GB!)
- 20 GB traffix (Not Fair Use)
- .nl .com .net .org .info and .eu domainname
- Unlimited POP3/IMAP accounts
- Plesk 7.5 Control Panel
- Frontpage Extentions
- Spamfilter and Virusscanner
- Webmail, 10 MySQL Databases
- PHP (With GD), Perl, ImageMagick
- Servers in The Netherlands (HIX in Helmond)

maybe not much traffix but you can contact them and maybe make a special webhosting package :)