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I already have site developed with EE Core version.
Now I’m planing to buy the paid version, but don’t know where to host it.
My main question is what hosting companies you request for full EE support with all Server Requirements and Optional Requirements listed here.

The obvious choice, of course, is EngineHosting. Highly recommended.

Hi, braveheart -

Most hosting companies can meet the minimum requirements, and you can do search around our Lounge and General for some suggestions.  Of course, we personally love EngineHosting and can’t go wrong with them. 😉

Indeed, EngineHosting is an excellent choice.  Hands down the best EE hosting (as indeed they should be, seeing as they are run by EE itself). 

I have tossed my site up on Spoonohost.com; as I had several accounts lying around unused.  They are also excellent.

EngineHosting.. awesome! I have moved all of my 3 websites there and will never go back to one of the discounters. I would use EngineHosting just for the spam management. I don’t know how they do it but when I switched from a big discounter, my spam on just my personal website email dropped from around 30-40 every day to virtually zero. That alone is worth the small amount extra per month. Plus, i get answers and solutions to support requests in hours not days.

Great, I like EngineHosting also and I’m considering on buying the first option of Shared Hosting. One think that intrigues is most is, how EngineHosting handles big spikes in traffic? Anyone experience “The Digg effect”?

Hi, braveheart, please send that type of hosting enquiry directly to sales at EngineHosting.  They’re very capable of handling this, but you need to discuss the particulars with them. =)

Ah, of course, sorry for posting in the wrong place 😊

No worries, braveheart, I just want to make sure you get the best answer from the appropriate source - and that is EngineHosting. =)

Ah, of course, sorry for posting in the wrong place 😊

It’s not the wrong place.  Our servers are set up to scale beautifully.  I’ll have Nevin give you a more thorough response.

Great, I like EngineHosting also and I’m considering on buying the first option of Shared Hosting. One think that intrigues is most is, how EngineHosting handles big spikes in traffic? Anyone experience “The Digg effect”?

I will try to do a 30,000ft view, though a lot of this information is available on our web site too. 

I guess we can start off with our high performance, true load-balanced web servers, and 4 or 8 core hardware RAID 10 based database servers. Move on to the enterprise quality systems like F5 BigIP load-balancers, Network Appliance storage arrays, Juniper firewalls, and TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention/DoS mitigation systems.  Then combine with our years of server tuning and networking experience, all together creating an easily scalable shared hosting through multi-server dedicated load-balanced clustered solution environment.  All done to allow us to provide a range of services and pricing to match our clients needs.

It also helps that all of our systems are highly distributed in nature too.  So our web server clusters handle web traffic, database servers only handle database queries, our email cluster along with the 2-layer, redundant anti-spam/virus systems handle just what they are designed for.  Even our sFTP and apache log storage/processing is all separated off to systems designed and tuned for these specific tasks.  This allows easier scaling, less interruption of services in the event of maintenance, or any type of performance issues that may come up, as they are all separated out resource wise.  So a large flood of spam hitting our anti-spam systems will not affect the performance of our email servers, nor will it affect the performance of your web sites or databases, and so on.

To top it all off we employ performance monitoring systems.  Both in-house between our 3 data centers, and external monitoring from multiple global locations. To keep our staff well informed about our server and network health 24 hours a day.

Keep in mind that accounts still do have some safeguards and resource limits, you are still sharing with others.  Though more than enough for what a site using the included resources in a given hosting plan would need and then some.  But in the event you have a special event, news story, Digg or Slashdot listing, etc., resources are scalable and our staff will assist in the event something comes up that affects your site beyond its normal resource abilities.  The answer is not always the infamous, “you are affecting THE shared server you are on, you need to move to a dedicated server…”.  Of course we do always recommend following hints, tips, help from your script developers, or community users when it comes to preparing your web site to perform well, and not be a resource hog when it likely does not have to be. 😊

Our overall focus is more on providing performance, stability, and security in a “production” grade hosting environment.  Which by the way, we are finding ever growing numbers of clients, large and small, that really enjoy this novel concept 😉

There are actually a number of upcoming additions to our web site we hope will explain this more in a easy to follow textual and visual way.

Ok, maybe that was more of a 3,000ft view. 😉

If you have future questions, please feel free to contact our EngineHosting staff directly.

Jeepers…And to think I knew them when 😉

Jeepers…And to think I knew them when 😉

Yeah, you *have* been around for awhile haven’t you 😉

you *have* been around for awhile haven’t you

Pretty much the story both here and in general 😉
Congrats on the growth!!!

Pretty much the story both here and in general 😉Congrats on the growth!!!

Yeah, I hear you on both counts 😊

Thanks! Just imagine, that is the stuff I can actually talk about for now 😉