WHAT IS EVERYONE USING FOR HOSTING??



Rackspace is too damn expensive for what they offer.

If you want to trust european web hosting company, I put my money on German one.

Hetzner is the best. Get a managed private server for lower than 100 euros.

This company is a dream company for a tech guys because they give full access control for anything. If you are already a client, you can running a full featured server on less than an hour even on 3 c'clock at night.

If you look on european hosting, have a look at hetzner.

My 2 cents.
 
Quickweb VPS servers are nice, they're located in Dallas and are on softlayer with 1 gbps dedi lines. Never had down time.
 
disclosure: HG Employee

that said, shared hosting is alright but I wouldn't advise putting your high volume sites on shared. if even one of your sites starts to consume too many resources, you run the risk of the entire account being suspended (on the spot, you may or may not get notified either depending on your contact info) until you fix the problem.

I see plenty of 'affilliates' daily (i use the term loosely because many of them are simply guru groupies) who will throw up a WP site, 70 plugins, and wonder why we suspended them a few hours/days into having their site up. However the better affiliates know what they're doing and have their sites optimized and work fine on shared, or they move to a VPS or Dedicated server (which for the most part, if your server is acting poorly its your fault, not the hosting company).

In any case, I do alot of testing on my HG accounts, but my primary stuff is on a VPS with Linode.
 
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