What Web Hosting Provider Do you Use?

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1. Ben Goheen on December 21, 2009 9:50 pm

   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.

2. Laurent on December 21, 2009 10:09 pm

   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...

3. craigvn on December 21, 2009 10:43 pm

   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.

4. Daniel Bates on December 22, 2009 3:45 am

   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.

5. Norm Fisher on December 22, 2009 5:26 am

   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.

6. Mark on December 22, 2009 6:48 am

   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..

7. Jeremy on December 22, 2009 12:36 pm

   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.

8. Evan on December 22, 2009 4:36 pm

   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.

9. Michelle DeRepentigny on December 22, 2009 10:10 pm

   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.

10. Craig Mullins on December 28, 2009 9:47 am

    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.

11. Mike Hunter on April 7, 2010 4:08 am

    thanks for the info people

12. r4 ds on April 23, 2010 1:33 am

    thanks for the people

13. labatterie on April 25, 2010 11:25 pm

    It's a VPS provider. If you're not family with linux, you can get someone to set it up for you.

14. samantha in a wild on May 11, 2010 12:54 am

    I use both Godaddy(for shared) & Layered Tech(for dedicated). As I think – layered is better.

15. dragos_ionut2004 on May 29, 2010 7:09 am

    Very interesting article, I think we all are curious what providers everyone else uses. Personally, I use a special provider because of my site which is kind of special. I found it through the internet and I must say, it really is cheap hosting. It's very cheap and you can find everything you need there.

16. Medyumlar on June 2, 2010 5:42 am

    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..

17. Büyü on June 7, 2010 4:04 am

    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..

18. Büyü on June 7, 2010 11:04 am

    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..

19. Cp82 on July 20, 2010 8:43 pm

    have been a customer with DreamHost for 5 years. My lead Web site has been online since 2000 and gets about 1000 visitors per day. I presently use the account to host five minor domains.

    Dreamhost used to be great. I looked forward to Josh's monthly newsletter, and loved the ease of use of the admin panel, which is clearer and more user-friendly than cPanel.

    But about a year ago, the company had major downtime problems. Because they had been so good before, and because of the pain of transferring domains, I stuck with them.

    But overall, the service has generally deteriorated.