Recommending hosting for a client

There are lot of reviews on the Internet Marketing and Review sub section I would try there one thing to remember just because one person has good time some have bad hosting exp

The above hosting providers are famous hosting provider. Siteground is good for hosting wordpress. For more details, I would recommend you to contact their team. Another great choice for hosting wordpress is WPEngine. But they are very expensive. I have great experienced with asphostportal.com. I can host both asp.net and my wordpress blog with them. I never think to switch!

To my opinion, you should try to know about that support services. How much helpful that support services to resolve your issues, many hosting provider can offer you a affordable hosting services but you should go with better support service provider not with affordable.

Let folks say all they want to say about Hostgator, but I can assure you that their service is still great with over 99.95 uptime.

Switch over to HG but stick to a shared account as this is the plan most of their clients use and for this reason they monitor the servers 24/7.

For improved speed and low consumption of your shared bandwidth, consider using a service like KeyCDN.com...

We use these two for our websites and we're still running strong with no issues at all.

Hope this helps.

Ken

I have been using Godaddy.com since 2007 and have had great results.

For my personal experiences, I satisfied by using fastcomet

I would recommend Siteground, Stablehost and Liquidweb. They are reputable hosting providers.

I used Godaddy on one site 3 years or so ago. Had issues with time it took a page to load.

Used Hostmonster... Used to have great support till a bit over 1 year ago... Gets very annoying... Estimated wait time for chatting is 21 minutes. And 21 minutes later your estimated wait time is 20 minutes. Or, worse, you make it to estimated wait time is 1 minute and 21 minutes later you're still waiting.

I'm now using SiteGround: been doing it for 4 months for 4 sites. No reason to complain.

Hi Grazina,

I have used many different web hosts over the years and work with clients at most of the major hosting companies. If you are looking for low cost, web host running on a top tier data center there is none better than Namecheap.

Namecheap hosting starts for less than what a domain name costs for the first year ($10). They run on Dell servers using SSD so they are much faster than other low cost hosting, and they are one of the few hosting companies that can boast that they provide 100% uptime, all the time. That's right... never never had any downtime for any customer since they introduced the service about 2 years ago.

HTH,

For unbiased reviews of hosting companies (and by unbiased I mean, not driven by advertising revenue received) go to Web Hosting Talk. This is where genuine webmasters meet and contribute their actual hosting experiences. It really is the only way to go.

I'm a fan of Hostgator, but not my current provider. Yahoo Webhosting used to be one of the BEST, but now they have been acquired by Aabaco Small Business, and my site has issues ALL the time. Hostgator has a tutorial of how to switch everything over to Hostgator, with no down-time at all. I plan on switching soon. Good luck Grazina.

I don't get why people hate Godaddy so much but i have been a customer for more than 10 years and i think is great. Great customer support.

How much money is your client expecting to pay? Also what type of hosting? Shared? Vps? Dedicated?

You already mentioned some decent hosting companies, I host my site with eHost, their customer service is good, but for an eCommerce site, I recommend Bluehost.

I like Bluehost. I often find myself recommending hosting for clients what I will also do sometimes is sent them a few affiliate links and get a little bit of a commission when they do choose a hosting provider.

Thank you everyone for your time and your comments. I learned something from each one.

We decided to buy hosting from SiteGround as I didn't see any negative comments, there were positive ones, and it confirm what I've found in my research.

Less-known hosting companies that some Warriors recommend may be great, and I'd be willing to try them if it was for me, but for my client I decided to stick to bigger, well established ones.

I took eHost and Bluehost into account, and the reviews... well, it was a mixed bag. People or love them or hate them, many say that they used to be good but the service has been getting worse and worse.

So I dug a bit deeper and look what I found:

"For those who aren't aware, Endurance International Group (EIG) is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based company known for its silent takeovers of some of the largest web hosting companies in the industry. To date, EIG has control of over 60 web hosting brands - which include some of the major players in the hosting business, such as HostGator, BlueHost, HostMonster, iPage, FatCow, JustHost, Arvixe, A Small Orange, and HostNine."

https://www.reviewhell.com/blog/endu...p-eig-hosting/

"EIG ... The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
EIG doesn't just buy hosts -- it liquidates them. From what we can tell, it has 3 divisions:
- the older vDeck brands
- the newer cPanel brands, using the "Bluehost method"
- and recent acquisitions, which are eventually assimilated by EIG
Until 2011, EIG would acquire a host, and then convert the customers to its proprietary vDeck control panel, which is like a limited version of cPanel. They only supported shared hosting, and non-shared customers were cast aside, casualties of the buyout.
Starting with Bluehost in 2011, EIG began to use a crippled and throttled version of cPanel, and using the not-better BetterLinux custom OS that allows more customers to be crammed on a server. For users that wonder why EIG servers are so slow, that's why.
And it wasn't just the customers that got the shaft. Historically, EIG has fired (laid off) the staff of recently acquired hosts, and shuttered its doors. The old owner and/or management was gone, paid off handsomely, so nobody was left to protect the employees. Many HG customers have noticed a severe delay in ticket response and scripted tech support for months; attrition and non-HG EIG techs taking tickets is likely. One has to wonder if the Hostgator employees in Texas will be another casualty. With the HG migration to an EIG datacenter underway, the employees and the alligator mascot are all that's left."

Read more: http://www.digitalfaq.com/editorials...#ixzz48cumdE00

Here's a list of all the brands under EIG umbrella:

As Full As Possible List of EIG Companies and Brands With Details (Beware EIG Hosting!)

Someone who screwed up poor, old Arvixe as badly as EIG did won't get me back as a customer, ever.

OMG, what the heck happened to my previous comment?!

OK - fixed now.

You broke the forum!!

Have you ever considered reseller hosting? It's great if you have clients who need hosting. You can get it so cheap it's also good for offering free hosting for a set amount of time as an added benefit.

i.e. "All sites include one year free hosting!"

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I've been using Justhost and Hostgator for the past years and don't have any problem at all. Aside from that, I'm also using cloud hosting platform like Heroku and Amazon CDN.

Grazina bluehost is one of the best web host for wordpress websites. You can check out my blog for my bluehost review.

I'm just all of Hostgator. I think they're great but their support need some improvement.

I make websites and provide different services to my clients, from my own experience + my clients experience, don't go with Godaddy and Bluhost .. those 2 companies are just a marketing bag, If you have a new website with less traffic then you can host over there but once your site started getting traffic , they will suspend your account

Try hostgoator's cloud hosting.

I would recommend Hostgator or Bluehost. Inmotion is good, too. I had pretty good experience with them..

I using site ground.

their plan actually I find quite expensive but I stick to them because of their support is not bad .

I think you are looking for WordPress hosting. It is tough to recommend a single name. I think it would be better for you to do a research on your own. So that you can pick the right option. To get complete comparison among different WordPress Hosting Provider you may take a look here
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Use services from ifastnet.com and veeble.org, their services are stable and prices are competitive.
Support is online any time you contact them.

In whole thread , I am not able to see your disk space and bandwidth usage details for your website because in beginning of thread you mentioned that your website is using 95% bandwidth out of allocated bandwidth, therefore its always better to see hosting provider resources allocation like disk space, bandwidth, CPU and RAM as well while purchasing new hosting account to avoid any further problem after hosting website on new hosting provider server.

I put all our new clients on Inmotion. They are happy as can be, have solid hosting with outstanding support and community to reach out to. Host many of my site their myself. https://webhostingrecon.com/

I personally host my WordPress site with Nexcess. Great service and support. Definitely worth checking out and a huge upgrade over any of the EIG hosts.

I really recommend SiteGround. I have never seen a hosting company with a very good after sales service like SiteGround. They can install your blogs, themes, plugins and even do some customization for you for free of charge.