As many of you may have noticed, my site was down most of the morning because, once again, my server was down. Needless to say, this was more than a little frustrating.
With this in mind, I’m hoping readers might be able to give me a hand. Can anyone recommend a reliable hosting company? I’m sorry to say my current one is hopeless.
Netcraft.net is the authority on ISP & colocator reliability.
Good luck.
I’ve used ServerMatrix – http://servermatrix.com/ (aka http://theplanet.com) for quite a while now. I’ve had a site online since January 1996 so I do have a reasonable idea of ‘good’ vs. ‘bad’.
Need server config help and security help? Try serverwizards (http://serverwizards.com) – They help me maintain my server.
I’ve used OLM.NET for the past 9 years with virtually no problems ever. I highly recommened them.
At a previous company, we used hostasauraus.com. Amazingly responsive,
no down time and inexpensive. You have to furnish the software.
I use futurequest.net for several sites and am quite happy with them.
Look into DreamHost for low-cost virtual hosting with significant resources (200GB+ bandwidth for $20 per month).
Pair Networks is good for colocation/private server hosting, but they’re not cheap.
I’ve been using ipowerweb.com for two years not, and never had an outage. 3000 MB disk space for $7.95/month, if you get a year at a time.
I’ve used Dreamhost and was very pleased…. never had downtime, good price and unix server.
I’ve had a great time with poehosting.com
Are you being attacked by hackers? I am not jesting about that. As you may recall that website that posted excellent daily poll results before the election was attacked on a regular basis for weeks — and not to wax partisan or anything, but it wasn’t exactly Kerry supporters who were attacking him.
http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net
It really is damn near free, and their reliability and performance are excellent.
Because I don’t like seeing anyone talking smack about my hosting company (I use the same host as this site, and I’m even on the same server), who happen to be about the least “hopeless” bunch of geeks I’ve ever run across:
The problem here is not reliability or hackers. The problem is trying to run an extremely high-traffic site on a low-cost shared-hosting plan. What that means is that this site is on the same server as hundreds of others, so all the technical competence in the world can’t save us when there’s a huge amount of traffic coming in all the time.
My hosting recommendation: look into dedicated or VPS plans, if you’re not already. Beyond a certain threshold, shared hosting simply cannot handle the load no matter where you are.
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