LiamGallagher

I have 50+ sites, and in a normal day, the resource usage is not a big deal. For the nature of some sites of mine, there are peaks of resources allocation. Those spikes kill all the shitty hosting services out there.

I had a dedicated server in Hivelocity (unmanaged) and was great. The biggest con is that if the server decided to crash, I had to fix the problem manually: by the time the problem was fixed, my sites had been down for some minutes, affecting my rankings.

Now I migrated to a cheaper server in WiredTree but the experience hasn't been great. The fag server crashes and they insist that I need to pay $30/mo more for some shitty modded version of Apache. With a 1024 Linode I can get better performance than cPanel based hosts.

What hosting company do you use?. In case of unmanaged services, how do you monitor your sites?. I'm curious to know how people like dchuk, Bofu2u, mattseh and other pro's handle this situation. I'm pissed of because I can't find a damn good hosting provider.

Thanks

CLKeenan

I've got a great server at webnx.com. Been with them for probably close to 4-5 years now. Got a great deal on a custom setup. Great customer service and always willing to go the extra mile to keep me happy.

As far as a server tech, I work with a guy named Steve at rack911.com who manages my server 24/7 for $75/mo. Fantastic job as well.

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Incantation

Bluehost here. Never any problems.

Ben89

liquidweb - smart dedicated server

Took under 1 hour to set up and you can upgrade and downgrade on the fly.

Excellent support - these guys were even willing to install 3rd party software for me.

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hostgator
hostmonster
bluehost
media temple

mostly hostgator...I have 10 or so accounts with them.

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Fatbat

I know some people have had problems with LiquidWeb, but one of those pros you mentioned told me that is who he uses and he seems happy with them, so that is what I went with.

I was with my last hosting company, Rackshack > EV1 > The Planet > Softlayer for more than 10 years and never had a problem except that one time their electrical vault exploded, but I wasn't down for long and got two free months out of them.

In light of my previous hosting relationship, I expect to be with LiquidWeb for a good long time unless they completely turn to shit, so I paid the max setup fee which should pay for itself in savings in 10 months time. I negotiated a free RAM upgrade plus an additional monthly discount and now have a fully managed dedi with them, with much better specs, for half of what I was paying at Softlayer. The service has been pretty decent thus far with no down time. I can't complain.

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roclafamilia

Storm on Demand(liquid web) is pretty cool, I like it. Reliable for me, and very easy and quick to modify my server / clone it.

Ben89

1and1 couldn't charge my credit card once because it was expired and they proceeded to sell the debt to a collection agency. I didn't even hear from them before they did this.

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kered

- HostGator - Never a problem, quick support and zero downtime + cheap.

- Inmotion - Other than all of their VPS being hacked and having our sites replaced with the hackers logo/page they have been ok.

- Bluehost - Good.

- 1and1 - Crappy experience. Cancelling was a bitch... and support sucked. Plus when my credit card expired I did not hear about it until it went to collections and I was called by a collection company... for something line $9. WTF.

- GoDaddy - Not too bad but I like simple/generic cpanel. Their's is wacky and they are pros and selling you shit you don't need... and even if you don't buy it there are soooo many hoops to jump through it makes my head hurt.

- Rackspace - Awesome for dedicated but not cheap. Incredible support.

- iWeb - Mediocre pricing. Seems reliable but support was crappy... the are french Canadian and when I called for support they could not understand me nor could I understand them... and I AM CANADIAN (Little Molson plug in there for the fellow Canadians).

Summary: I have accounts with all but HostGator is my favourite.

Kerkat

Hostgator for me, always found them very good.

JarredLv

In the past I used a small company named Glowhost. Support was pretty good and server speed was nice.

Once I started getting a decent amount of sites set up I went with a Hostgator reseller. Support's been awesome and every time I couldn't figure something out they did it for me then taught me how.

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Media Temple here with CloudFlare <-- shits sick.

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tencentpiece

Hostgator, I don't care what anybody else says but their support is truly first class. Their servers can handle the load quite nicely as well.

E.g I have one of their VPSes and it does around 200k impressions/day with A LOT of bandwidth usage (big image loads on every page) and it still only costs me like $80/month.

I'm sure you can get something for $40/month or cheaper somewhere else, but why bother? It's $40 and you know that they are going to give good support when you need it.

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tonymontana

Hostgator.

Human

Postception.

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Geocities. What.

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Vhaeos

SolarVPS. Got a managed VPS from them that runs smoothly. I'm on managed though. Also it's sorta pricey.

Big Joe

Hostgator for the small packages

CertifiedHosting for resseller accounts and dedicated. This is a smaller outfit and I get a more personal service. I have been with them for about 5 years and have no complaints.

DewChugr

mediatemple
hostgator

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Joshi

Hostgator.

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shawnhag

hostgator shared - where i host my old autoblogs and shit domains, use for testing shit, etc. bought it when i first started out and keep it

burst.net - VPS - where i host all of my toys. $50/month i can run SB/Sick with a decent amount of threads without missing a beat.

liquidweb - BAREMETAL BABY - just did a dedicated migration from bare bones to a 4G/SAS drive - lemme just say something here. if you have millions upon millions of WP tables and a shitload of domains, switch to an SAS drive on your dedicated and you WILL see faster access times. things just pop more. i host my company website on here as well as my money sites and some customer sites.

I gotta say liquidweb customer support is truly dope. They truly go above and beyond. Call after midnight EST/PST and you will get the guys that are bored. the other night this guy walked me through all these crazy apache configs. they will do their best to answer wordpress questions. also had one guy help me debug a Piwik php memory error the other day.

FUCK unmanaged - if I wanted to earn $60k to be a fuckin centos admin I would. Keeping up with every fucking exploit, uptime, blah blah again fuck that shit. Id rather prove I can make monies online than pound the command line all day.

fuck godaddy on principle

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Netphase

I have everything with Storm on Demand/Liquid Web now and have been very happy with them so far.

headiez247

hostgator
dreamhost
driphost I use for support sites

nxpazn13

Lol at geocities. I currently has a burst vps and dedi unmanaged and a host gator resellers account.

LiamGallagher

Thanks for your replies guys.

I'm seeing that LW/Storm on demand have a lot of loyal users. I contacted sales department for a coupon, and probably tomorrow I'll set up a new server.

From what I understood, I have to pay
– Server base price.
– Bandwidth
– cPanel (fully managed)

I'm fed up with the bastard cPanel. I tried to optimize the apache config file in my hybrid at WiredTree but the damn thing kept dying. For those who use Storm on Demand, are you still getting good performance even with gayPanel installed?

BassHead

Hawkhost is great if you're on a budget and looking for shared hosting without a contract.

But for all my sites I prefer server beach (dedicated) and hostgator.

(O_o)

HostGator
Phatservers

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clyde

6sync is good for managed VPS but Liquid is still the shit for dedicated.

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iWeb

cardine

When I'm not using cPanel I usually use LiquidWeb.

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cheshire

Just pay someone to manage it. Doesn't matter who you host with at that point. Linode FTW. It's just too robust to go with anyone else.

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blogginginc

ServInt. Been with them for the last two years, never had a downtime problem and support replies tickets really fast.

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Tobias Funke

Host Gator, haven't had any problems with them yet.

mimoza3

Gator and monster, had accounts with many others, Gator has first class support that never failed me, monster is stable
My experience with 1&1 was so terrible I will never go back

Bofu2U

I've got ~10 VPS's at Storm, 2-3 Dedi's at the LiquidWeb site for web/db servers.

A test VPS at Linode (which I'll be canceling eventually and shifting to Storm).

I try to stick as much as possible with Storm when it comes to dev/programming/scalability and for web I go to the LW side for the management & telephone number for those "oh shit" moments. They haven't let me down yet.


If you have 3rd party management it does matter, they can't walk to my server and turn it back on. Heh.

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slayerment

I have a dedicated box at LiquidWeb and Softlayer. I use Liquid as my web server and Softlayer for applications. Both companies are great at what they do. Liquid is a bit more than Softlayer because you're paying for the support. Softlayer has a great network and fair prices. I've never had any problems with either and would recommend both.

I was with Rackspace for about 2 years before LiquidWeb and I have to say that Rackspace is no better than Liquid. The support and quality of service is just as good at Liquid as it is at Rackspace -- and the price is much cheaper. Rackspace is a waste of money IMO.

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cardine

Rackspace is pretty good for cloud hosting; I agree with you on everything else though.

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John147

im using hostwinds .

kingsolomon

For europe hosting, if you r a pro of tech go to Hetzner Online AG

They have very powerfull machines for a very low price.

If you need usa hosting, check leaseweb.com

They have quad core servers, good support and their price start from 100 euros.

If you need rackspace quality of service with 1/5 of the price, go hetzner eyes closed. Same quality of price, much better hardware, excellent online tools for server management, 24/7 support.

Hope I helped.

sting

godaddy for 3 of my sites .

wiredniko

Stormhosts.com?

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ZuzanaDesigns

I have a couple server with www.webair.com and one with www.yellowfiber.com

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hostgator

AdHustler

solarVPS has been really good to me

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StormOnDemand

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