Posted by nevets88 on December 4, 2008 at 2:43pm
I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the choices. Client is currently on Earthlink and I am getting tired of its limitations. Have used Bluehost which is much better than Earthlink, but have experienced some downtime. Most important are:
1 - Reliability (uptime)
2 - Control Panel / Tools
3 - Support
Looking at Bluehost, iPower, A2 Hosting and Siteground. Really like bryght, but a little pricing.
Thanks in advance.
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I can't recommend Siteground at this time.
I have been with Siteground for about 3 years. And they used to be great. They are nice in the fact that they have some dedication for Drupal but I have had many performance issues the last few months. Page cannot be displayed, server services down, database inaccessibility. It is hit and miss intermittent but definitely annoying for my users.
I have not been able to get satisfaction from their support
I am on this forum right now looking for a recommended replacement.
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I think the truth is that every shared host is hit or miss. I've been with 5 hosts over the past 5 - 6 years and the stories of each host are similar. Nothing became consistent until I put myself on VPS servers at minimum.
The varibles involved are just too many. How many sites on the server? How busy any of those sites are at any given time and how their traffic is chewing up resources which are also your resources.
I see
That's what I was thinking - shared vs virtual vs dedicated. Looks like VPS Linux will be more dependable than shared. It's just one site, but it's a fairly visible public nonprofit that gets about 500-1000 hits a day, but more now that the site will be on Drupal. Some pdf downloads and forum/photo gallery usage. The important thing is that the site stays up, so speed isn't of the essence.
I've been looking at A2's VPS hosting plan starting @$15/month.
I've used siteground for 3
I've used siteground for 3 years as well. Had no big issues with them yet. Support has been helpful/responsive so far.
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I am using Godaddy to host Drupal
I am using Godaddy and I am quite happy and I am hosting 8 domains, with some subdomains, and I have had no problem (hosting problem I mean).
Anyway I would like to heard opinions about people experiencing with Godaddy in comparation to another hosting services.
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My Drupal site: http://www.bidai.info
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If you just start using
If you just start using Drupal, then anhosting, bluehost should be a good choice. I don't see big problem when my daily traffic is around 300 unique ip per day.
But the story will be different when you get more traffic. Considering bluehost, anhosting have already been very good in shared web hosting solution, it really doesn't make sense for you to try another shared web hosting, you will have to look for a VPS one.
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I have been using resellerzoom.com untill I moved all of my sites to dedicated and they are pretty good at what they do.
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What kind of disk space and
What kind of disk space and transfer does your web site use? You should try to stay away from those offering unlimited disk space or primarily any sort of single-shared web hosting server, those tend to have issues with uptime.
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Checkout webfaction. I've
Checkout webfaction. I've just posted about this in another thread - but I think they're definitely worth looking into.
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