VPS Hosting = Brilliant
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you're that guy who reminded the teacher we had homework to turn in at the end of class aren't you
Have to agree, made the switch as well, and the speed increase is pretty cool. Make sure to pick a host who doesn't oversell. I went with KnownHost after numerous recommendations. I bombarded their support with questions the first 48hrs, and their support pretty much blew me away. Instant response, nothing took longer than 20min to fix 
what Web hosting are you with guys?
I'm hosting 12 websites with Media Temple Gs shared server. One of the websites is a wordpress blogs generating over 2.500 visitors a day but I realized that their Gs & Dv server Cant take that much traffic for wordpress blogs. I had over 500 pages load errors and because of this bs I want to switch to another Host today.
What are you guys recommending?
I'm hosting 12 websites with Media Temple Gs shared server. One of the websites is a wordpress blogs generating over 2.500 visitors a day but I realized that their Gs & Dv server Cant take that much traffic for wordpress blogs. I had over 500 pages load errors and because of this bs I want to switch to another Host today.
What are you guys recommending?
The cloud isn't truly any better than a normal shared hosting enviroment. The only reason we are seeing it pushed so hard is in the end it will save the big guys with enough money to invest in building a cloud infrastructure TONS of money in the future.
Check out hostwinds google us or shoot me a PM I would be glad to help set you up!
I'm an English guy - so I used an english provider: Tagadab | tagadab.com
Incredibly impressed with them. Phone line support (in England) is impeccable. Any problems I've had they've helped with (which have been quite a few as I'm certainly not a tech wizard!)
It costs me £24.99 ($40) each month for this:
512RAM, 20GB Storage
Up to 100Mbps contended
1000GB data transfer pm
5 dedicated IPs from the start
I chose the Linux Server With Plesk as I was advised this would be the easiest way for me to move forward.
To cut a long story short, I would have no qualms with recommending this company to anyone ready to take the plunge into VPS.
Incredibly impressed with them. Phone line support (in England) is impeccable. Any problems I've had they've helped with (which have been quite a few as I'm certainly not a tech wizard!)
It costs me £24.99 ($40) each month for this:
512RAM, 20GB Storage
Up to 100Mbps contended
1000GB data transfer pm
5 dedicated IPs from the start
I chose the Linux Server With Plesk as I was advised this would be the easiest way for me to move forward.
To cut a long story short, I would have no qualms with recommending this company to anyone ready to take the plunge into VPS.
lolwut.
From what I hear only Rackspace and Storm on Demand are true cloud services - whatever that's supposed to mean.
I'll check them out. But the hype about cloud is that you are supposed to be able to change, expand, shrink your hosting with no downtime. That is the hype I've seen. No boundaries type of BS.
I believed it until I had to work on a client's site hosted in the cloud. She had been sold on the same thing. I went it and moved the memory slider to double the memory. I then get the message - We will start working on this process and then move your site to the config when done. WTF? Why a move? Why not just bam? Oh... because they are creating a new virtual machine/VPS and just migrating everything using the same IP.
The cloud may just be the marketing term for the layman to catch up with people who already know how to do it. The building materials are the same but we are getting new tools. I pretty much believe the same thing about most Social Media. I have yet to see something in Social Media that I have not been doing for a long time. Sometime the tools are even worse and people fawn over them.
So marketing can mean taking something that is complex, removing most of the cool features, making it goofball simple, and selling the masses on it. Then after a couple of years worry about making money on it, and add all of the cool features back in.
I believed it until I had to work on a client's site hosted in the cloud. She had been sold on the same thing. I went it and moved the memory slider to double the memory. I then get the message - We will start working on this process and then move your site to the config when done. WTF? Why a move? Why not just bam? Oh... because they are creating a new virtual machine/VPS and just migrating everything using the same IP.
The cloud may just be the marketing term for the layman to catch up with people who already know how to do it. The building materials are the same but we are getting new tools. I pretty much believe the same thing about most Social Media. I have yet to see something in Social Media that I have not been doing for a long time. Sometime the tools are even worse and people fawn over them.
So marketing can mean taking something that is complex, removing most of the cool features, making it goofball simple, and selling the masses on it. Then after a couple of years worry about making money on it, and add all of the cool features back in.