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Hi,

I’m looking for a new host at the moment. I’ve been searching the forums a little, but found more topics in the nature of “is dreamhost any good” or “mediatemple experience?”.

So I’m looking for general experiences from you people.

Currently, I’m with a Belgian host, called 1-eurohost, I pay 25 euros per year. For that I get 1.5gb storage, unlimited mysql database and a bunch of subdomains… But I’m getting the impression their overselling a little. I’m getting very low performance. Pages that get executed in 0.05 seconds suddenly take 5 seconds to process etc…

Where are you guys hosting your sites and what do you have? just one domain or multiple sites? I’m really interested in learning more about this kind of stuff!

I did have a service with my parent company, but recently like you i have found it getting slower, so i’m moving me and my clients to a new service. Before the rest of you guys have a go at me i’m not using mosso.

I use ASO (http://www.asmallorange.com) - the best hosting company for small - medium businesses out there (in my opinion)
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I can vouche for ASO as well - I’ve had a few small issues with downtime, but nothing major (a lot more reliable than Dreamhost).

Both have comparable features and I can’t think of another host that gives you as many options for the price.

I have used hundreds of different hosts, and to be honest, the only way you’ll get a host who really will not go down is to pay the extra, we now have a managed dedicated server with Rackspace and although it breaks the bank to pay £750+ every month, it truly is in a different league. They answer the phone within 5 seconds no matter what time you phone, and they deal with tickets quickly, and they actually resolve them also…. thats important!

I concur on the rackspace front. I have a rackspace server in place for a client of mine and it takes next to none management from me. Rackspace support is excellent and the server is setup a dream. Also, it runs redhat ES (or AS! i cant remember which!) which has been configured excellently, it is very secure from the outset and very very stable.

But as Matthew says, it is pricy, we don’t pay £750 a month, it is more like £450 but it is still a fair whack!

And the bandwidth is expensive too 😊 we were getting hit with £300+ bills for bandwidth overuse until we started storing images etc in Amazon S3.

check mine 😜 its FREE no premium service at the moment.

Alfahosting.be offer quite good packages although I’ve had access to a few sites hosted on combell and although combell is expensive it’s very cool what you have access to; you can tweak apache and mysql config and restart your hosting package over ssl I don’t know many other hosts that allow this without it being a vps.

ALL shared hosting environments oversell. That’s how they make money.

I dare you to find a shared env. that isn’t severely oversold. I’ve seen boxen with 4000+ accounts on them.

UK
tsohost - good support, reliable and you get quite good specs for London based servers.

Everyone
WebFaction - good deals and superb performance. Unlike most other costs you don’t get CPanel but a custom interface and you also get proper shell access for serious development. Also comes with Python support, and has one click installers for Django, Trac, Subversion, WordPress etc. The only minor quibble is you have to use SMTP rather than mail() in PHP. Their shared servers are fast and they don’t put 100s of accounts on them.

I wanted more control over apps installed (version of PHP, MySQL, etc) and went with VPS Hosting. Eapps (http://www.eapps.com) has a minimum $10/month package which includes Ruby if you want. And over time they’ve increased my specs at no charge. Currently have 2GB space, 30GB transfer per month. Great support too.

I use indo-hoster, cause I’m in Indonesia. There’s no problem till I write this post.

For me, support from the owner is more than anything. If something happen (like “site down”), I can contact them ASAP to get information about “What happen?”.

I used to use HostRocket which is nice and cheap and has lots of nice features. Recently I began doing more and more development and noticed the server would be down on a day to day basis. I moved over to MediaTemple and so far I am loving it. It’s $17 a month if you pay up front or $20 month by month. They have a beautiful admin control panel and a pretty great knowledge base. Check out their features…Awesome! I did, however, get some pretty rude responses from their customer support when I first opened my account. This particular supporter was condescending and unhelpful, requiring many extra responses and waiting. I do think that this only applies to this particular person however.

All that being said, I recommend MediaTemple.

Best customer service ever: hostmysite.com

You get a real human on the phone every single time you call (last 6+ years), without waiting on hold!

Plus, that human can usually solve the problem before you hang up - or at least kick the ticket over to someone else who can/will solve it.