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Please recommend your favorite the top 3 ExpressionEngine Hosing providers, to host enterprise-level website.

Will need Development, Staging and Production environments.  Load balancing etc.

Hi lamaison,

We don’t have specific recommendations other than to make sure your host meets the minimum requirements listed here in the User Guide. I’d be happy to move this over to the Community Help forum so you can get input from others based on their own hosting experiences. Would you like me to do that?

1. Enginehosting
2. Enginehosting
3. Enginehosting

Good luck!!

Hi lamaison,

We don’t have specific recommendations other than to make sure your host meets the minimum requirements listed here in the User Guide. I’d be happy to move this over to the Community Help forum so you can get input from others based on their own hosting experiences. Would you like me to do that?

Thank for the requirements doc.

With that said. I’m looking for hosting provider that is am ExpressionEngine hosting expert. We really need a company that can provide managed hosting. Support that can fix a problem, quickly because they know EE inside and out.

1. Enginehosting
2. Enginehosting
3. Enginehosting

Good luck!!

Yea, that’s what I want to hear.

Certainly that is the one at the top of my list.  I trying to do my due diligence, and look at other comparable hosting (if there are any)

What is the relationship of EngineHosting to EllisLab?

EngineHosting is top notch and has awesome support. Cannot recommend them enough.

Thanks Greg.  Love your Add-on BTW.  I have a few of them on my Buy List.

EngineHosting is the EE experts, certainly, but they’re also very rigid about a lot of their setup and configuration, even on their VPSes.

My favorite host ever is UNIXy (unixy.net), who offers spectacular managed service. They are not EE experts, but they ARE really good at performance tuning, and they answer tickets practically at lightspeed. Even if the ticket is, “can you install this Apache module? I’m too lazy to do it myself”, which is an ACTUAL TICKET i submitted at one point on a Sunday afternoon. (It was installed and configured within 20 minutes.)

There is no longer a relationship between EH and EL.

As for hosting companies you need to give more information. Are you suspecting this site will be one that needs shared hosting, virtual dedicated, dedicated or multiple server configuration?

For shared hosting I would highly, highly recommend site5. I’ve been with them for 6 years and will be renewing next month.

They also offer vps and dedicated hosting, which I haven’t used, should your hosting needs increase.

Best customer service I’ve ever experienced.

I recommend EngineHosting, too. I trust them with all of my sites. They’re the best place to host ExpressionEngine sites.

For shared hosting I’ve had good luck with OneWorldHosting, believe it or not. Been with them for awhile now for smaller shared hosting projects (mostly static and minimal PHP/MySQL projects). Decided to give them a try for hosting an EE project about a year and a half ago and haven’t had any major problems at all. Plenty of dedicated RAM for PHP per account. My 0.02€

OK, here’s more information.  We are a fairly large corporation, that get’s a great deal of its customers via or website.  We current host in-house using Microsoft tech. :(

We’re reinventing our website and moving to LAMP.  Beside home-grown tools, EE will be our first CMS.

We can’t afford any downtime,  1 hour of downtime would cost us a great deal in lost sales.

We are looking for VPS or Dedicated and multiple server load balancing.

Also, we would be interested in finding a hosting provider what can support EE, so if there is a software problem, they have the expertise to fix it quickly.

If we were not using a planing on using a CMS, then we might be interested in a hosting provider like Rackspace or Media Temple.  Not that they couldn’t handle EE, it just that we don’t know EE we’ll so we need a hosting provider that does.

Virtually all of our sites are hosted at Engine Hosting. I sleep at night and enjoy my weekends because of them. They serve very large organizations very well and professionally.

We have been happy with EngineHosting—their staff has been responsive and supportive for the six years we’ve been with them.

They are very security conscious and do not provide a vast powerful control panel to customers.

So first choice is EH, but those looking for an alternative should consider TextDrive.

TextDrive was absorbed into the cloud megahosting company Joyent, but now the founder Dean Allen is relaunching TextDrive as a separate company, running on Joyent’s infrastructure.

Dean Allen is also the founder of Textpattern, an open-source CMS that is often compared to EE. The concepts are somewhat similar though EE is a bigger battleship. Allen has a lot of friends from the good work he did with Textpattern and TextDrive.

For info see textdrive.com, twitter.com/txd and discuss.textdrive.com.