[Hidden-tech] website hosting

[GLP]

I second or third the recommendations for SiteGround. I'm super happy and impressed with their service. I bought 3 years worth of hosting at the discounted rate, making it a really good deal up front. The $15/month regular price feels a little steep, but not if you compare it to other "WordPress/Drupal/Joomla-optimized" services. They have excellent (and easy) server-side caching, integration with CloudFlare, free SSLs (Let's Encrypt), super fast support, and a good control panel. When there have been major security freakouts, be they heartbleed-type or specific WordPress/plugin vulnerabilities, SG has blogged "Oh yeah, we fixed those already; all our servers are protected." They're also at the top of performance comparison trials against "specialized" and "cloud" hosting. 

Godaddy and Bluehost are usually perfectly decent.

I host and maintain a few dozen websites, and these are the worst to deal with in my experience: 1&1, Dreamhost, iPage. Hostgator will probably be added to that list soon. 

Greg


> On Feb 28, 2017, at 8:27 PM, Allen Cohen <acohen at svcable.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I want to switch from HostGator to a new service.  HostGator used to have excellent support, but it has gone downhill.  It is also a lot more expensive than others.  Recommendations would be appreciated.  A couple of sites list Bluehost.com as one of the top, but I'm not sold on any one at this point.  
> 
> Thanks,
> Allen Cohen
> (802) 380-2182
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