What hosting company do you use?

LiamGallagher

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I have 50+ sites, and in a normal day, the resource usage is not a big deal. For the nature of some sites of mine, there are peaks of resources allocation. Those spikes kill all the shitty hosting services out there.

I had a dedicated server in Hivelocity (unmanaged) and was great. The biggest con is that if the server decided to crash, I had to fix the problem manually: by the time the problem was fixed, my sites had been down for some minutes, affecting my rankings.

Now I migrated to a cheaper server in WiredTree but the experience hasn't been great. The fag server crashes and they insist that I need to pay $30/mo more for some shitty modded version of Apache. With a 1024 Linode I can get better performance than cPanel based hosts.

What hosting company do you use?. In case of unmanaged services, how do you monitor your sites?. I'm curious to know how people like dchuk, Bofu2u, mattseh and other pro's handle this situation. I'm pissed of because I can't find a damn good hosting provider.

Thanks
 


I've got a great server at webnx.com. Been with them for probably close to 4-5 years now. Got a great deal on a custom setup. Great customer service and always willing to go the extra mile to keep me happy.

As far as a server tech, I work with a guy named Steve at rack911.com who manages my server 24/7 for $75/mo. Fantastic job as well.
 
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liquidweb - smart dedicated server

Took under 1 hour to set up and you can upgrade and downgrade on the fly.

Excellent support - these guys were even willing to install 3rd party software for me.
 
I know some people have had problems with LiquidWeb, but one of those pros you mentioned told me that is who he uses and he seems happy with them, so that is what I went with.

I was with my last hosting company, Rackshack > EV1 > The Planet > Softlayer for more than 10 years and never had a problem except that one time their electrical vault exploded, but I wasn't down for long and got two free months out of them.

In light of my previous hosting relationship, I expect to be with LiquidWeb for a good long time unless they completely turn to shit, so I paid the max setup fee which should pay for itself in savings in 10 months time. I negotiated a free RAM upgrade plus an additional monthly discount and now have a fully managed dedi with them, with much better specs, for half of what I was paying at Softlayer. The service has been pretty decent thus far with no down time. I can't complain.
 
Storm on Demand(liquid web) is pretty cool, I like it. Reliable for me, and very easy and quick to modify my server / clone it.
 
adknowledgejohn said:
1and1.com has raped me sooooooo much over the years, and their customer service is the WORST.
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1and1 couldn't charge my credit card once because it was expired and they proceeded to sell the debt to a collection agency. I didn't even hear from them before they did this.
 
- HostGator - Never a problem, quick support and zero downtime + cheap.

- Inmotion - Other than all of their VPS being hacked and having our sites replaced with the hackers logo/page they have been ok.

- Bluehost - Good.

- 1and1 - Crappy experience. Cancelling was a bitch... and support sucked. Plus when my credit card expired I did not hear about it until it went to collections and I was called by a collection company... for something line $9. WTF.

- GoDaddy - Not too bad but I like simple/generic cpanel. Their's is wacky and they are pros and selling you shit you don't need... and even if you don't buy it there are soooo many hoops to jump through it makes my head hurt.

- Rackspace - Awesome for dedicated but not cheap. Incredible support.

- iWeb - Mediocre pricing. Seems reliable but support was crappy... the are french Canadian and when I called for support they could not understand me nor could I understand them... and I AM CANADIAN (Little Molson plug in there for the fellow Canadians).

Summary: I have accounts with all but HostGator is my favourite.
 
In the past I used a small company named Glowhost. Support was pretty good and server speed was nice.

Once I started getting a decent amount of sites set up I went with a Hostgator reseller. Support's been awesome and every time I couldn't figure something out they did it for me then taught me how.
 
Hostgator, I don't care what anybody else says but their support is truly first class. Their servers can handle the load quite nicely as well.

E.g I have one of their VPSes and it does around 200k impressions/day with A LOT of bandwidth usage (big image loads on every page) and it still only costs me like $80/month.

I'm sure you can get something for $40/month or cheaper somewhere else, but why bother? It's $40 and you know that they are going to give good support when you need it.
 
SolarVPS. Got a managed VPS from them that runs smoothly. I'm on managed though. Also it's sorta pricey.
 
Hostgator for the small packages

CertifiedHosting for resseller accounts and dedicated. This is a smaller outfit and I get a more personal service. I have been with them for about 5 years and have no complaints.
 
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