Who do you like for hosting?

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I haven't needed one recently but now I do. I need wordpress (php/mysql) email. Pretty much the standard stuff. Doesn't have to be dirt cheap but I don't want to overpay either.
 


It is a pretty competitive market, if you want to get the most for your money go for a smaller host that has been around for 1-3 years.

They will work their asses off to keep you as a customer with low margins and probably won't oversell the node you are on.

Just look in to it at Shared Hosting Offers - Web Hosting Talk
 

I have accounts with pretty much every dirt cheap host on there, a few that have proven to be good are (sorry for the gay names) hostwithlove.com and networkpanda.

By good I mean that the support responds within an hour and it's someone (the admin) who has some technical ability not a script reader. Some don't respond for hours or sometimes days...

For a VPS, I'd pick RamNode every time.
 
vultr or digitalocean + Froxlor or Vesta control panels. $5/month VPS with nginx and you can handle a good number of visits.
 
Digital Ocean sucks, I don't like them personally

Edit: and yea I know FAQ Fox is on it


That is why I've switched to vultr, I haven't had any issues. DO was good for a year or two, but it seems like every month or so I'll have a random droplet error and it takes like 45 minutes to power cycle the droplet. vultr has faster CPUs and is outperforms DO by a good bit, too.

http://serverbear.com/benchmarks/ssd-vps
 
I dropped digital ocean for dediserve this year.. been spot on for last 6 months for me.. you get what you pay for I guess.

If it's cheapish shared hosting, stablehost is always ok.. can usually find a lifetime discount code on webhostingtalk threads..
 
I'm curious about the negativity for digital ocean? What problems did you guys experience with them?

I fucking love those guys. Have had almost no problems with them. They have some of the best step by step tutorials in the business. They get back to you quickly for support. And have not had any problems with uptime.
 
I'm curious about the negativity for digital ocean? What problems did you guys experience with them?

I fucking love those guys. Have had almost no problems with them. They have some of the best step by step tutorials in the business. They get back to you quickly for support. And have not had any problems with uptime.


They have the best tutorials, fastest deployment and ready to use images. Whenever I need to scrape stuff, it is way faster to get going on a droplet than a vultr instance. I've had issues with NYC2 and NYC3 droplets where the parent nodes would have errors causing CPU to sit at 100%. They issue refunds for those errors, but it seems like it happens more frequently than it did in the first year I used them. If you don't have some form of redundancy built in, it can be nerve-racking.
 
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.
 
Holy shit KnowHost VPS is dirt cheap. Can anybody give a review between them vs LiquidWeb? I'm about to get a new vps.
 
Holy shit KnowHost VPS is dirt cheap. Can anybody give a review between them vs LiquidWeb? I'm about to get a new vps.

Haven't used LiquidWeb but back in the day when I was with KnownHost, my site was DDoS'd for like 2 minutes so they nullrouted me for 4 days and then pretty much told me to fuck off with no refund (this is like 5 days in to using them).

Proof:
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