<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>I had the same experience with MediaTemple Grid. Bought by GoDaddy. I still have clients with virtual servers. I think those are managed better.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>There's a lot of buyer beware in this business. A good host today can easily go bad quickly.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 2:26 PM Rich@OTN <<a href="mailto:rich@on-the-net.com">rich@on-the-net.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>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.<br>
Response is reasonable, I've not run into db issues and I don't
send email from there. <br>
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.</p>
<p>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. <br>
I dropped them about a year ago.<br>
<br>
it would help if you gave more details as to what kind of sites
you have (even the URLs)<br>
<br>
Stay well all - Rich</p>
<div>On 6/28/2020 11:55 AM, Mark D. Hamill
via Hidden-discuss wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div>I haven't used them, but I've heard good things about
Dreamhost.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:43
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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?<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
Lesley<br>
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