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I was wondering which web hosting is good for a medium sized site capable of supporting 500-1k users at the same time in any given minute?  Budget is under $30 per month.  Has anyone tried SimpleHelix?

As far as ability to sustain that amount of traffic I don’t know, but I like Hostgator.
I haven’t built anything big on it to know if it will hold up to large amounts of traffic.

Eapps has worked well for me. I got tired of shared hosting with old versions of PHP and MySQL. Eapps gives you an account where you can do PHP & Ruby, and pick from PHP4 or 5. Starts at $11/month, and it’s a virtual server as well.

Eapps has worked well for me. I got tired of shared hosting with old versions of PHP and MySQL. Eapps gives you an account where you can do PHP & Ruby, and pick from PHP4 or 5. Starts at $11/month, and it’s a virtual server as well.

Hows the uptime?  Is it fast?

Uptime is excellent IMHO, they’re proactive at communicating upgrades, have a monthly newsletter, and even occasionally when there was a major enhancement they needed to implement they are very forthright in telling what the fix was and impact. I’ve not had any downtime that I know of for my 5+ domains and very happy with their service. They also actually have phone support (I usually talk to techs in Atlanta USA). Phone support is now a bit more a month due to the economy, but I actually got phone support recently…they helped me to see how to restore a directory I deleted. I’ve also had no speed issues.

Is your VPS managed or unmanaged?  Do they install security updates, etc for managed VPS?  What about SSL?

May want to check: http://eapps.com/ManagedHosting/ManagedHosting.jsp.
You can purchase SSL and they can install the certificate for you as well.

I recommend http://www.surpasshosting.com

They have a shared developer plan with a framework installer with CodeIgniter support, latest version of PHP/MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite, SVN/GIT/CVS, and Phusion Passenger for Rails applications.

I worked on an eapps server, 3 actually, on a project.  Had serious problems on all 3 - process’ running wild, randomly corrupt backups, svn getting all wacked out.  Never had this many problems with a server before.  After a couple of months of trying to work out the kinks, we moved to a ‘newer and more powerful server’.  Everything was fine for a while and all of a sudden, same thing all over again.  We weren’t running anything special, SVN, and a couple of homebrew AIR apps and CI.  Finally, said forget it, moved our dev server to slicehost.  Never had a single problem w/ our server.  Can’t say much about customer support b/c we haven’t needed it.  Also, we’ve upgraded our plan 2 times since our initial 256M purchase and it w/out a hitch.  Highly recommend slicehost.  I think their 256 is going for 20/month these days.

Edit - I did forget to mention though that you get a basic install of centOS or whatever flavor you care to run, which sounds menacing to some, but they have great guides for getting everything installed and running.  I’ve been admining for about 4 years, and I even picked up a couple of tips from the guides.

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What about a VPS at http://www.slicehost.com/ is from rackspace I think…