Heard good things about RamNode and vultr. Also if it's a local site I'll typically go with something shared on an IP right in the city/town.
OK. Care to elaborate on the benefits of doing it that way?
Heard good things about RamNode and vultr. Also if it's a local site I'll typically go with something shared on an IP right in the city/town.
HostGator is just a reseller of servers from SoftLayer, Ace Data and Cyrus One (which one you get is random). They also resell CloudFlare services. So why would you want to go with a reseller and not go directly with the service providers themselves? That doesn't make any sense. Why the middle man?
I smell HostGator schils.
Hasn't HG had random 1-2 day long network-wide outages every few years?
The thing that makes Digital Ocean shitty is that they will terminate your VM over things that are entirely out of your control.
All it takes is a 12 year old kid with a 60 second booter and they will cut you off without thinking twice.
OK. Care to elaborate on the benefits of doing it that way?
Google supposedly takes IP location into consideration if it's a geo specific search. You're not going to get negged having an IP from a major network hub city but it's a positive being right in the respective location. In terms of site speed and/or relevance.
??? Any source on that? That sounds insane. I can't imagine what kind of expectation or incentive Google would come up with for that kind of positive factoring in their algo. Do they expect small business owners to install servers in their back room or something? Or that they would have any clue about finding a host with a nearby datacenter?
The only factor I could see is page load speed which can still be in the top 1% with a datacenter in a major hub, a quality server, and good page load optimization.
Most of the bigger known ones have been mentioned, but one of my favorite smaller shared hosts is bestssdhost. Crazy fast for a shared host and cheap as hell. Even their little $10 a year plan they offer on WHT is fast.
On the $10 a year plan I have one wordpress site with some pretty intense plugins running on the home page and 56 requests. No optimization, caching, or cloudflare at all. Home page is just under 1MB and loads in an average of 700ms.
On another, slightly more robust, shared account with them a 1.3MB home page loads in an average of about 800ms. Again no caching or optimization has been done on that site either.
No complaints with outages either. I've had different accounts with them for about 9 months now and I've had less than 10 minutes of down time.
Now that I think about it, I probably should have kept this to myself.![]()