Help - I Need A New Hosting Company

I have had good success with Hostmonster. However, Hostmonster is not great for a reseller account if that's what you're looking for.

I sell hosting over at ResellerEdge.com but if I had to recommend any company other than my own I would recommend HostDime.com they are an awesome company.

I've been using Hostbreak for a few years now and have had no issues. Good 24x7 support for how inexpensive they are. Plus, $15/mon for reseller with 15 domains.

Be very, very careful to make frequent backups, if you go with Bluehost or Hostmonster (same company, different brands) ... their internal server backup system has been unreliable for a long time, and the company owner has come out and flat stated that their shared servers are not being backed up. If there is a server-wide exploit or drive failure, and your data is lost, it's gone .......... so make sure you make and download frequent backups to your PC !!!

For more information about this, it's been widely documented and discussed at WebHostingTalk.

Always, always run your prospective host through the Search feature at WebHostingTalk; look at threads going back at least 6-9 months so you can get a handle on their real track record & support history. Any less than that, and you're really not getting a representative sample of what's going on with the company.

Bailey

I recommend kiosk.ws they understand internet marketers needs
they are great

A lot of internet marketers, clickbankers and Google highly recommend...
Web Hosting Support at SiteGround.com

Dave

I highly recommend Hostgator, their servers are fast and the support is great. The prices are good too

Pair Networks is pretty cool for dedicated IP address per domain

For SEO purposes/domain strategy, I have a few diff. hosting accounts (hostgator, dreamhost, bluehost and some smaller hosting co's in Canada)

I wouldn't recommend godaddy - one little complaint from one of your list members and bam, you could lose your site - not worth it!

Good luck with your decision!

thanks again for all the tips, interesting to see that some people give some of the recommendations a bad rap, I hate hosting!!!, of course now my midphase account is working great and super fast, I just wonder for how long!

I used godaddy for years but seemed to periodically have email problems...both in and out. Since I was in the real estate biz it was critical and I never knew what leads I was losing. They did not offer proper support on the issue and even after I sent proof of bouncebacks (often there weren't any) they didn't deal with it. They are easy to use though because of the domain registration feature. Now I use Hostgator and find them really good, cheap and offer great support. Domain reg is a bit fiddly but the support makes up for it.

I use Nuvo Host dot com for both my sites. Never have any trouble with them. They are by far the cheapest I've seen too. Packages start at $.99 to reseller at $7.99 a month.
Also there is no affiliate program so your not paying for that!

The tale continues, I noticed that in my midphase accounts the awstats were not working, I submitted a support ticket only to be told that this was now a paid feature and to contact billing, awstats is in the fantastico package so it should be free!, it's free and works great in my Hostgator account, yes, midphase really does suck!

Check out SEO Hosting which is a HostGator company. They appear to offer exactly what you need.

Best shared hosting is by Bluehost and Dreamhost. Best cheap dedicated hosting is from SingleHop and PacificRack.

The moral of the story here is that every hosting company is great until they **** up, I just want to know which company screws up the least!

Well, like I mentioned earlier, Hostgator has been top notch for me for several years. There have been problems, yes, but their customer support has been incredibly responsive. I am very satisfied.

Did you pick one yet? I'd be interested to know who you chose and why.

Thanks,
Andrew

I have space on one of my dedis if you need. I have seven of em at The Planet same place as Hostgator .

Here is a tip, if you want to check on the performance of your hosting company for the next 30 days sign up with Alertra Website Monitoring Service they give you a free 30 day trial without you having to use your CC, they will monitor the performance and send you alerts if anything goes wrong, very good service, if you have several email address's you can run this free for months!

Hostgator is a good choice.

Update: midphase gave me 3 months credit for my troubles, reliability seems to much better now, still having trouble getting free awstats from them

I just moved from Kiosk to Hostnine - you can actually pick where to host your sites, so you can spread your sites across different data centers. The reseller back admin is really nice too - and so far anyway - support has been amazing - never more than 15 minutes for a response time.

I tried to hang on with Kiosk because I had so many sites there - but after my sites being down intermittently for 4 days - and I was just getting responses like 'you must have used the wrong password, that's why you can't see your site' when I was clearly explaining that we could not access the sites on ANY of the computers in the office - and neither could my clients....I just gave up.

I think they need to start focusing on training their support staff to actually try and figure out the issues rather than simply respond with a canned answer.....

I really did not want to move - have 60+ sites there - but I couldn't deal with them anymore....

Melody

I recommend Bluehost. Never had a problem and they have every tool you need. Resonable price as well.

From what you've said I think a Host Gators resellers account would be a great choice becuase you can host multiple sites from multiple IP addresses. Another alternative would be to sign up for a Host Monster account and just use host gator and host monster together. I think that personally I would just create a hostgator resellers account, easy simple and very effective!

I did just post this to another hosting thread and saved a copy of it.
It is still on my clipboard, so I'll press ctrl + v and you should get it
too, for whatever useful info it might have.

One of my concerns with hosting is their traffic spike policy. Most
hosts will shut the site off if it hits the digg front page on a cheap
plan. The best policy I've ever found that way has been uberhost.net.
(Note the .net. The .com version is a hosting affiliate site that is
enough to baffle a person permanently.)

I nearly went with them 2 years ago and it looks like I will be moving
over there quite soon. They have a choice of cPanel or DirectAdmin
control panels. If you do have a traffic spike you have about 4
options, including just paying a one time fee for the extra traffic at
a very reasonable rate, 50 cents a GB, without upgrading to a more
expensive plan, although that is one of the other options. I personally
prefer the DA panel, which I've only seen mentioned once by anyone
else on this forum.

They also have live chat during LA business hours and are really good
at communicating, another strong plus for me.

They have good choices in reseller plans, including cPanel with WHM
which I will probably be going with. Their DA control panel doesn't
have as good an option as WHM for that reseller plan.

Another quirky but extremely interesting host is nearlyfreespeech.net.
They have a massive amount of interesting information about hosting
on their site, including active and interesting forums. (I did my
research quite awhile ago so this might possibly have changed.) They
don't offer cPanel, just their own control panel, but they will host
just about anything that is permitted under free speech.

The only thing they charge for is traffic, and you can actually open
an account with them for just a couple of dollars. 25 cents of traffic
will last a low traffic site quite a long time, months or years. A "major
slashdotting" will cost about $10 as far as their traffic spike policy
goes and they mention that the sites they host get it about once a
week.

Besides no cPanel, the other most like turnoffs for them are: no email,
but you can set up forwarding, and not at all newbie friendly. The no
email accounts was a turnoff for me but then with my next host I
found it best to go with just forwarding it all to gmail anyway.

If you are interested in them they will offer you a free account with
25 cents of free traffic to have a look at their control panel and check
out the whole set up.

So, that was a lot of typing. I'm going to run back into the office,
slam the door, and pour a double brandy.

best wishes, lloyd
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I use Kim Standerline's Newbie Network Hosting.

Couldn't ask for better support.

Mickey

With a hostgator reseller account so you can host several sites from different IPs, making it much easier to manage, also giving you the opportunity expand and introduce new sites with a minimum of fuss. Easy to use, easy to manage!