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Cheap Reliable Host ..

Jun 28, 2008

I usually host my sites on Bluehost but they are a bit expensive. A friend of mine who wants to host a very small site of his not expecting too many viewers, needs a web host which is cheap, reliable and fast..bandwidth is not an issue since he wont need much.

Please suggest some tested options. Which one of the cheaper options are time tested and reliable?

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May 15, 2008

Into DNS

Alexa rank 10,190,846?

Web Archive

detailed Who.is

if I can trust this service

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May 28, 2008

im in the market for a very reliable shared hosting windows host. It i s crucial for us to have maximum amount of uptime.

storage and bandwidth needed is not very much about 40-50 gigs maximum per month. It is also important that we are able to add "alias" domains or "pointer" domains to go to the same place.

Price is not really a concern.

I was looking at the 1and1 windows hosting package but im afraid i wont get any support if ever I have any problems.

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Oct 30, 2008

I am planning to shift my sites from dedicated server to VPS as my site traffic

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Aug 9, 2008

Before we get any further I would ask that people not relentlessly spam this thread with this or that, telling me how great your web-host is. Im sure it is. I do want serious replies that address my concerns.

I am currently with a web host called bluehost.com -- with which I am becoming VERY dissatisfied with. They are now consistently having downtime which causes me a lot of frustration when I am in the middle of editing a file (or many files as I like to do). Frustration aside, what is this going to cost me when I am not just developing and rather depending on them to keep me alive and available? This is NOT why I pay $7 a month.

Further, I find it absolutely rude and unacceptable the way I am treated by their customer service representatives. In this regard I am uncertain what is worse, letting them know Ive troubleshooted the issue on my own and therefore know something, or acting as if I don't know anything at all about the problem. Either way I receive rude, snarky, condescending, and / or passive-aggressive irritation from aformentioned representative. They "guide" me through steps they probably read from a script and when they are done "diagnosing" the problem I feel as though I've been raped. Its quite an ugly scene. I do want to mention however that I have NEVER had even 'acceptable' customer service from any of the 4 or 5 web-hosts I have tried (by tried I mean more than 6 months of sticking it out).

I wish to find a web host company that is relatively large in size. This would imply a few things to me that:

A) They have the capacity to reduce or eliminate downtime to something approaching zero at worst and zero at best.

B) They have the capacity to staff knowledgeable customer service representatives that are not snivelling, sexually challenged uber-geeks with a grudge against the universe.

I do realize this request is like expecting politicians to be honest or more specifically if the said host is large and resource laden, they probably did not get there by hiring the best and brightest to sit by the phone.

C) They offer SSH access to their customers. And other small details would include a list of basic and expected necessities such as: MySQL, PHP, FastCGI, Zend Optimizer, sub-domains, pop3 accounts / mail, a control panel for account settings, and of course error logs and the like.

So, if anyone knows of a host with these features, please let me know and / or please let me know of your experiences with this host. If you have had problems with Bluehost please keep in mind that they have treated me *relatively* well, with the exception of customer service not worth the goo between my toes.

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Feb 1, 2007

Im currently with a unreliable host in the us with a lot of downtime and other issues, so am just after a good reliable reseller host with a server based in australia.

Every time I think im onto a good one i find a dozen reviews on how bad they are,

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Dec 6, 2007

As the title says, I am going to be setting up a AbleCommerce website, and I need a high quality Windows VPS host. My main focus in on uptime, quality, reliability and speed. But at some point price will come into play as well.

The server requirements for AbleCommerce are as follows:
Microsoft Windows 2000, preferably 2003 Server
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or 6.0
.NET Framework (Asp.Net 2.0)
Microsoft AJAX Library 1.0
Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0
Microsoft SQL Server 2000, preferably 2005

Besides these requirements, as with most e-commerce software I'm pretty sure AbleCommerce will be pretty server intensive (Its a pretty large script). It should also be noted that I have no experience with Windows hosting, so I need a managed VPS with good support staff.

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May 15, 2008

I am compiling a personal list of and for my personal domain name, of non oversold hosts. I only know a couple. PC-core.net and fusednetwork.com

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Jun 30, 2008

I'm looking to move from Infrenion.com. The Infrenion VPS has been really great as far as speed and performance. However, Infrenion leaves the number of max diskinodes to 200,000. I've tried fighting with them to get it increased to where it should be (for a 20GB partition), 2 million nodes. I run a social networking site that uses Smarty templates and requires as much nodes as possible.

So, I'm looking for a VPS that has FFMPEG pre-installed, speed, 15 to 20GB of space, and is under $50/month.

Infrenion, if you're reading this, please reconsider your configurations of your servers.

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Apr 16, 2009

I know there are a million "looking for cheap shared hosting" threads. Hopefully my particular values/interests justify a new one.

I'm a (mostly PHP/MySQL/CMS) web developer, using Dreamhost for years (perhaps DH was better back then) to host staging/development sites for clients (once I've developed a client site, I usually make them get their own host somewhere more reliable), as well as for low-traffic sites, transferring files, etc.

What I don't like about Dreamhost:

a) SLOW. my guess is this is 25% web server overselling, and 75% MySQL server overselling. My simple sites are tolerably slow - including lightweight php/mysql sites (textpattern CMS, etc.) - BUT my Drupal and Silverstripe and ZenCart experiments are intollerable (5+ second page loads).

b) funny ownership policies - I can't (easily) create a client FTP user that is restricted to one of my subfolders. Each user = exclusive file/folder ownership.
c) not much else. I seem to get a-little-too-frequent DNS problems/outages, and used to get a-little-too-frequent server lock-ups... but I don't expect perfection from a cheap host. And of course I send my mail through google apps, I wouldn't trust a cheap host with my mail.

What I like about Dreamhost:

a) the control panel functionality. Yes, it's ugly, but god it does a lot of nice stuff that cPanel doesn't (and frankly, cPanel is usually ugly too).

b) the usual: a very low price for unlimited domains, unlimited mySQL, and huge storage.

So, who is my next low-cost host?

a) Interested in MySQL performance/protection - perhaps hosts that put MySQL [and mail] on separate servers, like DH, but don't overload them!?! Do I need to worry about this?

b) I wouldn't mind moving to a reseller account

c) I'd like a progressive control panel; I have clients on medialayer - who use directadmin (nice) - but their pricing structure is a bit tight on domains/db/storage. [As an aside, medialayer provides excellent shared hosting performance/value/support, if you don't need a lot of domains/db/storage]

d) I'd like to stay in the $10-20ish a month range

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Cheap Reliable Business Host In UK

Mar 28, 2008

Friend of mine is starting up a business and is looking for a reliable and fast web host in the UK but also not too expensive around �100/year and maybe 100gb bandwidth not sure on that.

Looked over reviewcentre.com and picked out some high rated ones with more than 5 reviews, however every single one I have read horror stories about elsewhere (including ukfast which seemed so good looking at reviews).

Can someone recommend any decent ones to me who won't screw up payments or have much downtime, with maybe a year or more of being with them? All I need to start is a bit of bandwidth for pretty much one image to start with, uptime and email, already got the domain from domainmonster.

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2 Months, 4 Hosts. RELIABLE Host

Sep 7, 2007

I have changed four hosts in less than two months, absolutely disastrous.

I need a VPS with:
+700mb ram guaranteed (1gb preferable)
300-500 gb bandwidth (basically 300 for 1st month but if its reliable i will expand)
2gb space is enough.
100 mbit line.
location doesn't matter.
and a company that does not oversell
DirectAdmin
Adult content Allowed
A server that can stay up three days in a row??

MAX 55$/month (or if it does not work out, what is the max you can offer for 55$?)
Please help me find a reliable host, after months of suffering and instability.

Reason for changing hosts:
host 1: too much for shared, noobish attacks causing downtime. (netflow.co.il)
host 2 : scammed on directadmin. (peerlessmachines)
host 3 : a reseller of host 4, vanished suddenly, and domain got parked free. (youhostme.com)
host 4 : seemed perfect but recently a 5 days in a row downtime, blaming a faulty error and 'node 1 issues'. (highspechosting.info)

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Jul 9, 2008

My current host has gone the tubes as far as reliability so I'm looking for a new one. I need PHP/MySQL, CPanel, 1 GB of space should do for now and bandwidth will easily be met. I also want unlimited domains (add-on is fine).

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Oversold RAM Guarantees Data Loss

Apr 26, 2009

I just had some thoughts cross my mind about oversold VPSes. If a hosting provider oversells their bandwidth and one or more of their clients demands more juice it just doesn't come; there is a lag and the system acts as if the internet itself is choked up. Everything waits for available bandwidth and adapts around it seamlessly.

Now supposing the same host oversells CPU power and has a ton of VPSes with tiny memory allotments. If one or more clients start pounding away then their load average, and to an extent the load of the physical server will go up and all tasks will slow down a bit, very similar to an isolated physical machine that was running some intense application that was slowing everything down. Well in this case too the system will adapt to it and just run things slower.

If a host oversells hard drive space nobody will know about it until space on the physical box runs out so until then it's totally transparent.

But what about RAM? If a host oversells RAM and the VPS thinks a certain block of memory is there but it's really not then what? Supposing 99% of the RAM in a physical box is currently in use and suddenly the demand rises to 110% of the available RAM. Seems to me like applications on the VPS will not slow down but rather crash and vanish into thin air. Or try to start and as they load more and more RAM up suddeny they will just go poof! Taking user data with them.

Am I wrong about this and has openvz impremented some failsafe mechanism to prevent this from happening? Because if not it means anyone who runs anything in an oversold(RAM) VPS is risking losing or at the very least corrupting their data.

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Sep 6, 2009

I am a working on a website which will be more diverse but will work in the same way SWOOPO and many other auctions websites work with bids being placed etc.

I do not want to run the site on a hired dedicated server, I have a budget of around �5000 (around USD $8000) to buy a server. I was thinking of buying something from ebay, I am as of yet undecided exactly what to buy but I am leaning towards an affordable DELL 1855 blade chassis with the full 10x blades that is available. I have already made enquiries with datacentres in London about colocation costs, just waiting for an official quote.

Each blade has:

2 x Intel Xeon 3.6Ghz/1Mb Processors Both Installed
4096MB ECC RAM
1 x 36GB U320 10k Hot-Swap SCSI Hard Drives
PERC 4/iM RAID Controller

Further information in the advert:

Blade Centre Components:

1 x Digital KVM Module

1 x 10 Port Gigabit pass Through Module

1 x DRAC/MC Module (1 x Serial Port, 1 x 10/100 RJ45 Port for Remote Management)

3 x 1200Watt Power Supplies

7U Rackmount Chassis (No Rails Supplied)

All housed in PE1855, 7U Rackmount Blade Centre

Optional Gigabit Ethernet Daughter Cards Available @ �60.00 per Blade

This can give 72ghz of processing power with 40GB RAM and that is awesome. Does anyone know an approximate figure of how many customers/queries the server can handle at % rates? I know this depends on the size of the database and so on but I am just looking for estimates please.

I know I will need at least two cheap servers for a SWOOPO clone, one to run the website and the other for the SQL so rather than do that and get two servers I thought this route was better when weighing up the 7u size along with 72ghz processing power.

I am not looking for advice and tips on hiring a dedicated server but I really would appreciate some advice on what server to buy because the script is nearly 95% complete and we should be launching within 6-7 weeks after heavily testing it.

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Dec 14, 2007

I switched to HostGator because they had PDO drivers enabled on shared hosting plans with PHP 5 & MySql 5. The problem is that every time they update PHP (4 times in 8 months now) they don�t include PDO in the build and its takes day to get past level 1 support and get it fixed.

So I�m looking for a �Reliable� host. I had a hard time when I switched to HG finding shared hosting plans with PDO enabled.

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Jun 3, 2008

i would like to have reliable web host who can provide

1- anti ddos

2- fully managed dedicated server

3- server location - traffic mostly come from asia regions for 60% and usa for 25% - pls suggest the best location

4- bandwidth req 2500 gb

5- hard space - 1000 gb

6- daily backup req

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Nov 13, 2008

I'm a customer of IXWebhosting (actually their alias HostExcellence) and I'm completely disgusted. Their latest crime is denying and covering up a security problem which allows scripts to be inserted via cache directories. I now have people complaining of Bloodhound Exploit messages from their Norton Antivirus software. It's being done by somebody else on their servers, in turn infecting everybody else (for several weeks now).

Several months ago, they began SPAMMING the error pages with search engine affiliate links, which I'm sure they collect money from. I said I wanted them off, they said "do it yourself" using custom error pages.

Their outgoing e-mail servers are constantly blacklisted.

Whenever the database or main server fails, they never catch this on their own. I always have to call or create a support ticket.

Needless to say, I'm tired of their BS.

How do I find a replacement host that takes SECURITY seriously? Are there report cards anywhere?

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Jun 1, 2009

I did not put this under the tutorial section because it is not comprehensive enough. Its just a simple rant.

Those of you shopping for a host come to this forum, and are often given the advice to ask for a "test file" to download.

1) Hosts who offer test files will most likely put the file on their fastest server, not the server where your site will actually be hosted.

2) If they have servers in multiple data centers, they will use the one that is the most well-connected, not necessarily the one where your site is going to be.

3) Even if your account is assigned to the same server as the test file, what does your ability to download a static file actually prove? A test file does not show how well a server is going to perform, which is usually the biggest factor in page load times.

4) Barring all the above, and assuming your site is going to consist only of static files, most web site visitors are not all in the same area, so your results may differ from the rest of the people visiting your web site.

A test file can be helpful in rare circumstances, but as a potential customer you would have no way to really know whether your download is a true test of what you can expect, so it is best not to rely on something like that unless you are downloading it from your own hosting account with that host.

The only way to really know how a host is going to perform is to try it out. This is why hosts offer full money-back guarantees and free trials.

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Aug 24, 2007

I am having really bad experiences with my current host. I guess I've overlook "quantity" over "quality". I got my current hosting account (almost 3 months now) from ebay...I guess that sums up pretty much everything. Actually I knew it was a newly startup company, but they offer WHM as well (which a function I really want for other reasons) for a really low price of one year with unlimited everything. I know.....I know.....there is no such thing, but I've figure I would not reach their limits anytime soon. So I went for it.....test drive I would rather put it. Let's make the long story short:

* 2 weeks after account setup, server down for 7 days (because their servers got hacked).

* Received email, everything was lost and "all accounts will be move to their new SUPER FAST servers (yes indeed, I've to say !) in the next couple of days".

* Waited another 4 days, nothing. Summited a support ticket; their response was all their clients account was already moved to the new servers with an new ip which I did not get notified.

* Fine, re-setup everything and.....cross my fingers!

* Everything went well for...almost a month and half. (Well...other then the company was brought by another company ) Other then that, server will be down 10, 20 mins. at a time here & there.......

* Until yesterday.....I thought it was like the usual 10, 20 mins., but it was more than half an hour, 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours,.....I went to check on "their" web site, no longer accessible. Then I know it's time for me to look for a new host.

Anyway, sorry for the long post. I think I should rather change the title to "Really bad hosting experience from....." (Rather not to mention who, but if anybody care to know...)

Well, any offers from any web host in here?

Yes, THIS is one of my site. Let me know if / when it is working! Post the time if possible.

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Apr 21, 2009

I am on a very fixed budget, and I'm looking for a reliable host I can host my domain on.
I am familar with cpanel already, I was once a VPS owner, until I could no longer afford a VPS
after I lost my job

so I'm on the hunt for $1 hosting that I can pay for once a year using paypal
so I don't have to risk loosing my site again.

I had a $25/mo VPS with a very nice hosting provider, but could not afford to keep the host,
so 2 days late on my bill, and they deleted my VPS just like that! I lost everything!
15 years of work down the drain in 2 seconds! oh I was so pissed!!

I mean, yeah I should have had a local backup, but the problem was, my Computer was in the shop,
and the guy who repaired my computer formatted my backup drive, which I was pissed about that too.
Can you believe it? lost a job, and 15 years of programming and design work down the drain in 2 seconds. Even if that host offered me a FREE VPS for life, I still wouldn't accept it. I mean that was rediculus that they couldn't restore even an old backup for me. better then no site at all, ya know?

For awhile after that, I thought about giving up on having my own website, but then I thought, well I need a presence, a wordpress blog or something, so I started looking around.

I found a few places that offered $1 hosting, which didn't seem like too bad of an idea, I could probably swing $10 once a year. There was one host that even had a $5/yr promo running,
which sounded really cool, because it had Fantasico and RVSkin too, which was a really good deal for all that, but I diddn't know anything about the host, not much information on the site, so decided to not to sign up and ask you guys first.

the host was manadospace.com

Does anyone know if their reliable or not? otherwise can you guys recommend a host? I have no idea. Knownhost used to have $1 hosting, but not anymoore it looks like. my X has always had good luck with them over the years. any ideas for a reliable host?

I mean, even when I had a VPS, I was lucky to use 1GB/month bandwidth, most of the time I was lucky to use 450mb/mo bandwidth. I did use a gig of disk space though over several sites, but I've lost a couple of domains already, and I only have 2 left that didn't get taken over, so all I'm looking for now is a site to host a couple pages, and a wordpress blog, so I don't really need that much.

I live in Indiana

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