What hosting company do you use?

hostgator shared - where i host my old autoblogs and shit domains, use for testing shit, etc. bought it when i first started out and keep it

burst.net - VPS - where i host all of my toys. $50/month i can run SB/Sick with a decent amount of threads without missing a beat.

liquidweb - BAREMETAL BABY - just did a dedicated migration from bare bones to a 4G/SAS drive - lemme just say something here. if you have millions upon millions of WP tables and a shitload of domains, switch to an SAS drive on your dedicated and you WILL see faster access times. things just pop more. i host my company website on here as well as my money sites and some customer sites.

I gotta say liquidweb customer support is truly dope. They truly go above and beyond. Call after midnight EST/PST and you will get the guys that are bored. the other night this guy walked me through all these crazy apache configs. they will do their best to answer wordpress questions. also had one guy help me debug a Piwik php memory error the other day.

FUCK unmanaged - if I wanted to earn $60k to be a fuckin centos admin I would. Keeping up with every fucking exploit, uptime, blah blah again fuck that shit. Id rather prove I can make monies online than pound the command line all day.

fuck godaddy on principle
 


Lol at geocities. I currently has a burst vps and dedi unmanaged and a host gator resellers account.
 
Thanks for your replies guys.

I'm seeing that LW/Storm on demand have a lot of loyal users. I contacted sales department for a coupon, and probably tomorrow I'll set up a new server.

From what I understood, I have to pay
– Server base price.
– Bandwidth
– cPanel (fully managed)

I'm fed up with the bastard cPanel. I tried to optimize the apache config file in my hybrid at WiredTree but the damn thing kept dying. For those who use Storm on Demand, are you still getting good performance even with gayPanel installed?
 
Hawkhost is great if you're on a budget and looking for shared hosting without a contract.

But for all my sites I prefer server beach (dedicated) and hostgator.
 
6sync is good for managed VPS but Liquid is still the shit for dedicated.
 
Just pay someone to manage it. Doesn't matter who you host with at that point. Linode FTW. It's just too robust to go with anyone else.
 
ServInt. Been with them for the last two years, never had a downtime problem and support replies tickets really fast.
 
Gator and monster, had accounts with many others, Gator has first class support that never failed me, monster is stable
My experience with 1&1 was so terrible I will never go back
 
I've got ~10 VPS's at Storm, 2-3 Dedi's at the LiquidWeb site for web/db servers.

A test VPS at Linode (which I'll be canceling eventually and shifting to Storm).

I try to stick as much as possible with Storm when it comes to dev/programming/scalability and for web I go to the LW side for the management & telephone number for those "oh shit" moments. They haven't let me down yet.


cheshire said:
Just pay someone to manage it. Doesn't matter who you host with at that point. Linode FTW. It's just too robust to go with anyone else.
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If you have 3rd party management it does matter, they can't walk to my server and turn it back on. Heh.
 
I have a dedicated box at LiquidWeb and Softlayer. I use Liquid as my web server and Softlayer for applications. Both companies are great at what they do. Liquid is a bit more than Softlayer because you're paying for the support. Softlayer has a great network and fair prices. I've never had any problems with either and would recommend both.

I was with Rackspace for about 2 years before LiquidWeb and I have to say that Rackspace is no better than Liquid. The support and quality of service is just as good at Liquid as it is at Rackspace -- and the price is much cheaper. Rackspace is a waste of money IMO.
 
slayerment said:
I have a dedicated box at LiquidWeb and Softlayer. I use Liquid as my web server and Softlayer for applications. Both companies are great at what they do. Liquid is a bit more than Softlayer because you're paying for the support. Softlayer has a great network and fair prices. I've never had any problems with either and would recommend both.

I was with Rackspace for about 2 years before LiquidWeb and I have to say that Rackspace is no better than Liquid. The support and quality of service is just as good at Liquid as it is at Rackspace -- and the price is much cheaper. Rackspace is a waste of money IMO.
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Rackspace is pretty good for cloud hosting; I agree with you on everything else though.
 
For europe hosting, if you r a pro of tech go to Hetzner Online AG

They have very powerfull machines for a very low price.

If you need usa hosting, check leaseweb.com

They have quad core servers, good support and their price start from 100 euros.

If you need rackspace quality of service with 1/5 of the price, go hetzner eyes closed. Same quality of price, much better hardware, excellent online tools for server management, 24/7 support.

Hope I helped.
 
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