Hosting Recommendations Besides GoDaddy

Step 1. Get as far away from GoDaddy as possible.
Step 2. Get Hosting with HostGator.
Step 3. Transfer domains as soon as you can to Namecheap.com.

HostGator + Namecheap = Happy Marketer

Also never have your domains registered with the same company that you have your hosting with. If something goes wrong you could lose both your site and domain.

In addition to HostGator consider getting accounts with BlueHost and HostMonster or any other reliable host not named GoDaddy. This way you can create redundancy with your sites. This is also another reason why you should have your domains registered with a separate company than your hosting provider.

If you need additional IP's then you should consider getting a dedicated server with HostGator. Each server comes with 10 ip addresses. They have plans at less than $200 per month for a server.

Hope that helps.

Dennis

You may want to check Kiosk, they are great with marketers and they understand product launches, but I am not sure if they offer packages with multiple IP addresses.

-G

maybe an off topic. anyone used namecheap's hosting? never heard anyone said something about it. hostgator is great, but I want to try something different.


david

Mid phase are very good, you can get a business account for approx $8 per month where you can host unlimited domains with unlimited bandwidth and unlimited MySQL databases

I use Bluehost and haven't had any complaints so far. Hostgator seems to have the best reputation around though.

For multiple IP addresses you can try SEO Hosting or HostNine. They both offer multiple IPs and are very affordable. I will warn you though, I've been less than impressed with Hostnine's support. It's been terrible at times. I can't speak for SEO Hosting's support. Hope this helps.

Get a reseller server at HostGator. You can host all of your sites on your reseller server and the monthly fee is the same regardless of how many sites you put on the server.

I pay 24.95 a month regardless of how many of my sites I put on it.

Never have any problems with it either and my sites have never been down.

I've tried just about all of the other host and as far as I'm concerned - Host Gator is the best.

I use hostgator, hostmonster and a dedicated ip with bluehost -- all three have given me good service.

I've been very pleased with Lunarpages.

Hostgator is awesome. 24/7 toll-free tech support phone. They were even up and running when their offices were destroyed last summer from the hurricane. IF there has ever been down time with them then I have never seen it before. Actually I use their SEO Hosting (same company) so I can easily change IP Addresses for each cpanel account.

Steve

Hi Craig;

Sorry to reply to an old thread, I hope you don't mind. What was the reason for a different IP? Was this related to SEO?

Jamie

I used godaddy's asp.net hosting several years ago, and decided to NEVER use it anymore. it could be changed, but I will not go back. another hosting I had very bad experience is easycgi.

david

I use Hostgator and have used the phone support several times and I found they were really helpful and patient.

Cathy

Stick with Hostgator.

As I see it you have 2 choices if you want more IPs. You can upgrade to a reseller account which DOES NOT mean you have multiple IPs although many people seem to think so. It only gives you more hosting space and the ability to use WHM to create top level CPanel accounts for each domain. In essence, your domains are no longer add-On or sub domains. However, I do understand that you can pay extra (about $2 per month) for a different IP in the same C Class. So you might have 69.14.15.6 and 69.14.15.8, if you paid for a 2nd IP. At least that's what I've read in the Mage forum.

If you want different C Class IPs (which is what you should do if you're trying to protect your domains) you'll need to go with SEOHosting. Which is just another hostgator company. You still talk to Hostgator support folks. I'm not sure how people are quoting it at $25 per month as I'm paying $67.50 for 10 IPs and their sales page lists $35 for 5 IPs. You can add more IPs as you want and the more you add the lower your cost per group of 5 IPs becomes.

I do agree as well that Namecheap is great for domains. I got so sick of the GoDaddy interface and trying to find what I was looking for, I transferred them all to Namecheap!

Hope that helps.

When I first started out I tried the big consumer names, "godaddy" and "yahoo", both were slow, had horrible service, and were constantly trying to upsell me. I just wanted reliable easy to use, straightforward hosting. Bluehost.com was the answer. I have lots of domains with 1and1.com and got good service but hate trying to turn off their autorenewal feature for old domains I dont need anymore. Sounds like I need to try namecheap.

Got all my Dedicated Servers with Hostgator and Peer1