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 30th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
I use Dreamhost. :)
May 30th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
If you want a relaible host, take a look for softlayer.com.
My site was Dugged and server never went down…
May 30th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Hi, first of all, nice to net-meet you :)
I work with a USA company: SITEGROUND. It’s service is excelent
You can see in www.siteground.com
Best regards from SPAIN!
May 30th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Look at this: www.hoststar.ch
I think is one of the best hosting company ;)
May 30th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Experience with Rackspace was not that great in terms of customer service or getting ahold of someone.
Use Blacksun.ca. I have had a great experience with them.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Use SliceHost, I’m one of their happy customers.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:23 am
Gotta remember, This site gets alot of traffic. So going with hosts like Bluehost probably wouldn’t work out to good for him
May 30th, 2007 at 5:43 am
You won’t be disappointed with Rackspace.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Hi. A have didicated server. 2×100 Mb. Pentium D 2.8GHz CPU (Dual Core), 1Gb RAM, 2×160Gb 7200rpm IDE HDD RAID 1
Hosted only 10 sites. Resourses of server is free.. Server in Russia.
Guaranted - 99% uptime. 24h support.
Write to me if you interested.
May 30th, 2007 at 3:20 am
Hostrocket ; http://www.hostrocket.com/dedicated.html