SEO-Host.com Really Bad Uptime. Any alternatives I can look at?

[marshie]

Hi fellow warriors

I have been hosting my aged domains that I use for ranking my sites at SEO-Host.com for quite some time and up until recently it has been going fine.

However in the last few months I have noticed that almost half of my network is frequently down for long periods of time and the Wordpress install was corrupted without me doing anything for several of my sites.

I have had around 8 emails back and forth to support and still the issue is not resolved. To their credit they always get back to me quickly but the point is the problem has not been fixed and the uptime has not improved.

I am wondering whether other warriors could recommend some reliable sources as alternatives for SEO hosting?

I have checked out Seohosting.com from Hostgator however the IPs available are very similar. They have separate C class numbers but the A classes are all the same (US only) and most of the B classes are the same as well.

Any suggestions?

[mark@1to101]

Webhostingplex.com and hostnine are both better than seo-host.com

I currently use all three of those hosting companies. I'm sticking with seo-host for the time being but the downtime is, obviously, an issue. They're quick to respond to tickets but they give generic responses and are kind of slow to fix the downtime.

I think it's problems with certain IPs of theirs rather than all of their IPs though. Sites of mine that went down repeatedly I moved to a different IP or transferred to a different host. I have 30ish sites with them now, whereas I used to have about double that number.

[marshie]

Hey thanks for the suggestions. I'll check them out.

Do Webhostingplex.com and Hostnine allow you to have different name servers for each IP and can you get IP addresses that have different A class and B class numbers as well as C class numbers from different countries of origin like SEO-Host.com does?

[mark@1to101]

Webhostingplex.com - Some variation in A and B classes, but not as much as seo-host. You can't choose like with seo-host, so it's luck of the draw really. You get unique namservers for each IP address but you have to set them up yourself.

Hostnine.com - 5 or so servers located around the world so you can get a good mix of A and B classes. Unfortunately, you have to use the same nameservers for all of the IPs though, even if the servers are in different countries.

[mark@1to101]

I've had 11 of my sites hosted with seo-host.com down for 3 days straight now.

Their support respond quickly to tickets but they don't say or do anything of use. They just repeatedly give the same 2 or 3 standard replies over and over again.

So, I'm now transferring my sites away from seo-host.com.

[dlucian]

Have the website monitored, there are a lot of services out there that do just that. Try monitive.com for example.

[MaverickUK]

Try ASmallOrange. 99% uptime and amazing support that respond blisteringly fast. Best there is.

[Jason G Anderson]

I use Site5. They offer web hosting at data centers all around the world, but I have no idea what their setup with IP addresses, etc is (I just use the default data center). Reliability-wise they had a rough patch around 3-4 years ago, but new owners bought the company and they've been very reliable ever since.

[RevSEO]

Honestly I'd recommend just buying up a few different hosts and buying IPs from them, that way you have more diversity than a single host which tends to give similar A and B class IPs as you pointed out.

Unfortunately most of the SEO hosting is crap.

[Mike Anthony]

Originally Posted by mark@1to101

Hostnine.com - 5 or so servers located around the world so you can get a good mix of A and B classes. Unfortunately, you have to use the same nameservers for all of the IPs though, even if the servers are in different countries.

As Revseo just stated the state of SEO hosts is a mess. I can't think of one that hasn't gotten some VERY bad reviews. Your strategy here is what I use. Find some solid providers with multiple server locations. You can find a bunch of lesser known but dependable hosts at web hosting talk and then you look for the one with multiple datacenters. Site 5 was mentioned for example and you can get like 12 different locations there. Some of the smaller hosts you can get three or four from each. uk, west coast, east coast, and maybe like Texas.

Its a bit more work to setup because now you will have multiple usernames and password for your control panel but I just set them up in roboform (lastpass is free but I like my stuff offline) then its just a number of clicks . Will take you longer to pick through different hosts but alot of the time you can get hosting for at or less than what many of the SEO hosts charge per IP. additional benefits?

-Rank better in regional search engines (uk hosting for Google uk)
-When a datacenter or pipe provider goes down only a fraction of your sites will go down with them

[rock.sit]

About Webhostingplex, I have 100 sites in there, I use LFE(linkfarmevolution) to manage my sites, and sent the spun article to all my sites ,but it ofter can not be work, it is always dead. and my sites loading white.. it is very bad host ,i would transfer my sites..

[Fernando Veloso]

I just ditched seohosting from Hostgator and decided to use various plans on different companies. The uptime was great tho. I'll see how this approach goes.

[jjturner]

Has anyone tried aseohosting.com
Reportedly they have multiple C-Class IP addresses
and unique name servers.
Thanks

John Turner

[Cash37]

Originally Posted by mark@1to101

I've had 11 of my sites hosted with seo-host.com down for 3 days straight now.

Their support respond quickly to tickets but they don't say or do anything of use. They just repeatedly give the same 2 or 3 standard replies over and over again.

So, I'm now transferring my sites away from seo-host.com.

That sounds painful! I hate transferring sites. Hopefully you only have to do this once

[Marc_L]

Originally Posted by jjturner

Has anyone tried aseohosting.com
Reportedly they have multiple C-Class IP addresses
and unique name servers.
Thanks

John Turner

Yes, you need to set up your own nameservers and they allow one site per IP address.