Fast Servers for Money Sites?

Louey37

Louey37

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My money site is slow as shit (however slow that is) and I need to speed it up.

One of the suggestions I've got for speeding it up is getting new hosting. It's currently sitting on a hostgator reseller account and I have a feeling that it's not doing it any favours.

What's the story with faster servers? Do I need to get a VPS or are there solid, basic accounts out there that are worth the money?

I see hostgator have VPS's. Are these shit or am I fine to go with one of them? Their support is great and I have no other quams with them.

NOTE: In case it's not obvious, I know nothing about servers so I need something that doesn't require me to fiddle with any settings.
 


Forgot to mention, I'm happy to use someone's affiliate links if they can point me in the right direction.
 
My Storm on Demand/Liquidweb VPS seems faster than all of my previous hosts. It is fully managed, so if you need to "fiddle with" any settings, just put in a ticket and a system administrator will take care of it.

KnownHost, WiredTree, and HostGator are the 3 most recent other host that I have used. Storm on Demand beats them all so far in my opinion.
 
Proxy51.com runs on a Linode VPS $20/mo package. I think it's pretty damn fast, and that same box is also handling a ton of backend stuff that is pretty processor-intensive.
 
Hostgator is the suburbs of hosting. If you want performance you aren't going to find it at Hostgator or Godaddy. Smaller hosts tend to give higher speeds because they don't oversell as much and are more customer service oriented (i.e., more willing to please...). Step off the path to find the gems my friend.

If all you folks do is look for the "marketing" heavy hosts, well, that's all you are going to get (i.e., marketing and overselling).
 
LInode looks like the best value on here. I'll give them a run. See how they go. They couldn't be slower than Hostgator.
 
I've about had it with Hostgator. For the second time in two weeks, they took down all 15 of my accounts because of a script problem on one. Mind you, the 15 accounts are spread across 15 different servers, so there's no connection. But they definitely take a shoot first and ask questions later approach to problems.

I'm looking at VPS.net for my money sites and need to find a good alternate SEO hosting provider for the "farm." Anyone know some good alternatives--ideally someone who would assist with migrating all the sites over?
 
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Hostgator is the suburbs of hosting. If you want performance you aren't going to find it at Hostgator or Godaddy. Smaller hosts tend to give higher speeds because they don't oversell as much and are more customer service oriented (i.e., more willing to please...). Step off the path to find the gems my friend.

If all you folks do is look for the "marketing" heavy hosts, well, that's all you are going to get (i.e., marketing and overselling).
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Agreed. I've never hosted with GoDaddy or Host Gator and I switch all my clients that decided to register babby's first site themselves to some one else. Worth the $8 and saves me a ton of headaches.
 
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