What Web Hosting Provider Do you Use?

December 21, 2009
By: Drew Meyers
Author's Website: http://virtualresults.net

Especially given how tech savvy the Geek Estate readership is (and since this blog is hosted on Media Temple and experienced an outage earlier today), I’m curious — what web hosting provider do you use to host your website(s)? Please take the poll below to help figure out which web hosting companies are most popular in the real estate vertical — and if you are using one that’s not on the list and you highly recommend them, please leave a comment!

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Craig Mullins

Their are quite a few options when it comes to hosting. It really depends on your unique needs. One VERY important thing to look into is how much memory they allow you to use and how much CPU time they allow a script to use; this is especially important when hosting a wordpress blog. A lot of wordpress blogs will use 20 -30 mb of memory with some operations and most hosts only allow 15 - 20 mb of memory to be used. Your users are going to get a page that doesn't load or "error 500" messages - not good. :)

Michelle DeRepentigny

I buy my domains through godaddy because they are more affordable, but have used HostGator for hosting and management of all WP blogs for about 2 years now with no issues.

Evan

If you want a free host then your best bet is going to be http://www.000webhost.com/213818.html. They offer a ton of features for free including 150 website templates. 100gb data transfer is a lot too.

Jeremy

My company's been using Point2 as a temporary solution until we get one custom built. I mainly like it for the syndication and dashboard with clicks/views. Gives us pretty numbers.

Mark

I never had a problem with hostgator and I recommend these guys. Unfortunately I can't recommend Lunarpages, with their support service outsourced to complete amateurs..

Norm Fisher

I've been using GoDaddy for about six months. I switched over when my former host pulled a sudden disappearing act. Was looking for something large and stable. GoDaddy's support is awesome but I've been wondering lately if my site isn't running a bit slow and Google's "site performance" tool indicates that it's slower than most so I need to figure out if it's my site files or my host.

Daniel Bates

Surprised nobody is with Godaddy, yet. I've got 3 different hosting accounts. Real Estate Tomato hosts my blog, Media Temple for my WPMU load, and I still have a godaddy account that I really need to transfer over to media temple. All have been excellent.

craigvn

I use CrystalTech.com and have found them to be very good. I will however be trying out Azure when a major release is done early next year.

Laurent

I use linode.com for all my hosting. It's a VPS provider. If you're not family with linux, you can get someone to set it up for you. It seems a lot more complicated than it really is. I would never go back to shared hosting, especially not godaddy. The performance and control you get for a slight price increase (it starts at 20 dollars a month) is definitely worth it especially with websites that are database driven. I'm getting close to 1000x perfomance increase on some mysql queries compared to when I was on godaddy.

If you want to try it out, you can use my referral URL which is http://www.linode.com/?r=8e8cfc68028b2be927b331...

Ben Goheen

http://www.arvixe.com - can't say enough good things about this company. I've jumped around quite a bit and have never been happier. MT is probably good for the huge companies but not for small real estate blogs.

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