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Hi all,

Am enjoying the EE experience.  I purchased a Personal license, and have developed a website locally.  My next stage will be deploying it to a live site / host.  Does anyone have any hosting company recommendations?  I may go with EngineHosting, but just wanted to check with you guys before parting with my hard earned cash.

Regards, and thanks in advance

Ross

Am enjoying the EE experience.  I purchased a Personal license, and have developed a website locally.  My next stage will be deploying it to a live site / host.  Does anyone have any hosting company recommendations?  I may go with EngineHosting, but just wanted to check with you guys before parting with my hard earned cash.

Welcome to EE.

Obviously, not all hosts are created equal. In general, if your site gets decent traffic, avoid the $4.95 per month unlimited databases, unlimited domains, unlimited bandwidth. Truly, they do not provide unlimited anything (grief, maybe).

For EE, EngineHosting is wonderful. Ditto for Pair, PairLite, ServerLogistics and others which just seem to have their act together.

Hey grrramps,

Thanks for that.  As I rule I tend to avoid the ‘unlimited everything’ hosting packages.  But I still believe in value for money.  Engine Hosting’s bog standard basic package wouldn’t be what I would call feature rich, 1GB web storage, 200MB database storage.  Value for money is important especially in current economic climate.

Ross

Value for money is important especially in current economic climate.

Obviously, it’ll all depend on your requirements—bandwidth, DBs, storage, bells and whistles. Compare the range between PairLite, Pair, and ServerLogistics (the former two are the most dependable, stable hosts I’ve ever used, the latter the fastest).

Thanks again.  I read some great reviews for EngineHosting here: http://profile.ratepoint.com/seereviews/1126?page=1 

I will probably end up going with them as this will be my first EE installation, and i’d like it to go smoothly.