[Hidden-tech] Web Hosting Providers

[Mark D. Hamill]

I do work on hosts for many clients. I don't recommend BlueHost. Their
servers are over-optimized, leading to lots of issues like timeouts. Also,
they are owned by the Endurance International Group which buys hosts and
consolidates them. I used to host on Hostgator and liked them, but EIG
bought them and service went to hell. I frequently get the same experience
with BlueHost and it's almost guaranteed you'll get some tech in India.

I had the same experience with MediaTemple Grid. Bought by GoDaddy. I still
have clients with virtual servers. I think those are managed better.

GoDaddy is becoming a virtual host, essentially putting a front end in
front of Amazon Web Services. It actually works pretty well, better than
before, probably because of AWS's resiliency. What I really hate about
GoDaddy is the constant upselling.

There's a lot of buyer beware in this business. A good host today can
easily go bad quickly.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 2:26 PM Rich at OTN <rich at on-the-net.com> wrote:

> I use SiteGround - as for cost, depends what you are expecting, I've got
> 50+ wordpress (etc) sites on a $300/3y (about $8/mon) pro shared host
> account.
> Response is reasonable, I've not run into db issues and I don't send email
> from there.
> It does have issues with search engine trolling, same as anyplace else.
> This shows peaks in the load report, that usually last an hour and have not
> ever effect site traffic.  I can't comment on level of support since when I
> want support it's pretty far beyond most support people.
>
> I used to use mediatemple, I think they are now owned by GoDaddy now, and
> they did shutdown all sites on the account when there were issues.
> I dropped them about a year ago.
>
> it would help if you gave more details as to what kind of sites you have
> (even the URLs)
>
> Stay well all - Rich
> On 6/28/2020 11:55 AM, Mark D. Hamill via Hidden-discuss wrote:
>
> Siteground has good, completely solid state shared hosting, a bit
> expensive. If you can live with its quotas on database size and outgoing
> emails, it's very reliable.
>
> I haven't used them, but I've heard good things about Dreamhost.
>
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:43 AM Lesley Schneider via Hidden-discuss <
> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>
>> Good morning. Earthlink crashed from 10 nPM last night to 7:30 this
>> morning nationwide. Not all parts of the country are back up yet. I have
>> been with them since the 90’s. I have to websites and two different email
>> accounts, one for each site. They are expensive. Can anyone recommend a
>> god, stable, reasonably priced service for my needs?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Lesley
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