Webhosting Suggestions.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:51 pm

Looking at gettings domain+hosting ideally through the same company. GoDaddy.com offers such a service @ 36months for 176$ on the hosting. Domain charge is competetive as well.

Anyone else know of reputable hosting/domain companies online. Prefer one with phpMyAdmin installed.

Wasnt sure where this should go so I put it in Gen-Disc.

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:53 am

I've been using dreamhost.com for years and it's been great to me so far. You might want to try that out?

If you do want to sign up for it, can I get a referral?

Jamie_R · Post by **Jamie_R** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:03 am

have you looked at Lunarpages.com? I've been using them for about a year now and I'm very pleased ... they do have php apps you can install ...

and if you use 'em can I get a referral?

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue May 01, 2007 8:43 am

don't use Aplus.Net

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Tue May 01, 2007 10:39 am

http://www.hostpc.com

I've been using them for five years. The support is fantastic and the price is reasonable.

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue May 01, 2007 11:10 am

http://www.hostmysite.com

That's who I have GameGen with.

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:34 pm

powweb < was pretty good havent used them in a few yrs

Jamie_R · Post by **Jamie_R** » Tue May 01, 2007 1:53 pm

mountainman wrote:don't use Aplus.Net

I actually moved from them last year based on your recommendation and further research ...

Thanks mm!

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue May 01, 2007 2:13 pm

Jamie_R wrote:I actually moved from them last year based on your recommendation and further research ...

Thanks mm!

Anytime. I use them still since I have so many plans and domains with them. They are a huge PITA for support and with their crappy CP.

Such is life.

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:23 pm

http://www.site5.com for the win. Note: the link is my referral link, but I'm not recommending them out of the want for a referral -- they're really the best hosting company, imho. Also, they're moving all of their servers to theplanet (actually putting in all new servers, heh) so it'll be even better soon. Great deal, right on their front page + fantastic support.

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:24 pm

mountainman wrote:don't use Aplus.Net

i'll second that.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:46 pm

Site5 looks great. Will research a bit more and possibly go with them for a two year. I most certainly will use your referral link amro! thanks everyone!

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:38 pm

Thanks a ton, Joe. I did a lot of research and believe me, these guys always respond within an hour, at worst, to my problems. Usually, they already know and are fixing it before I figure out there's something wrong. I host 3 websites off a single account with them and couldn't be happier -- I just paid for 2 years of webhosting through them as well b/c I know I'll never want to switch plus if I wanted to update my plan, they prorate properly. On top of that they do domain registrations as well (I put all my domains on my account w/ them just because it's easier to manage that way).

Edit: I went w/ the cheaper multisite plan -- was 150 for the 2 years and a lot less space, but I like the multisite control panel -- it's good stuff. Their shared domain-pointer packages (like the crazy one on the front page) are great too.

http://www.site5.com/multisite/comparison.php

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:03 am

Amro wrote:http://www.site5.com for the win. Note: the link is my referral link, but I'm not recommending them out of the want for a referral -- they're really the best hosting company, imho. Also, they're moving all of their servers to theplanet (actually putting in all new servers, heh) so it'll be even better soon. Great deal, right on their front page + fantastic support.

been with them for a week now and had nothing but site not responding errors... their excuses are growing thin. I'll give them one more week to fix their crap or I'm gone.

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:20 am

I used to use shared hosting plans (Powweb, Godaddy) but I'll tell you in all honesty, and for lack of better words, they all sucked (imho). My company has a web server that we resell which flies compared to shared servers.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:36 pm

I looked around for 2 months before deciding. Read a lot of reviews and found out that the "biggies" are certainly not always the best. I have now been with axishost (not to be confused with axis hosting - suck) for 3 months and they are great. Nice Lady running it and live help almost always.

http://www.axishost.com/

cPanel and WHM
Fantastico
Multiple Backups
Custom DNS
Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited Email Aliases
Unlimited mySQL Databases
Perl, PHP, SSI, Ruby on Rails
FTP Access

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:15 am

+1 for site5.com
-1 for dreamhost.com, control panel was inadequate, all hosters oversell, but dreamhost seemed to OVERsell.

blacklab · Post by **blacklab** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:02 am

Sava700 wrote:been with them for a week now and had nothing but site not responding errors... their excuses are growing thin. I'll give them one more week to fix their crap or I'm gone.

Sorry for hijacking your post Joe.

Sava

Did you ever get your problems worked out with site5.com?

I am thinking of changing hosts and it is a toss-up between dreamhost.com and site5.com. The best price is at site5.com, but price is not always everything.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:36 am

blacklab wrote:Sorry for hijacking your post Joe.

Sava

Did you ever get your problems worked out with site5.com?

I am thinking of changing hosts and it is a toss-up between dreamhost.com and site5.com. The best price is at site5.com, but price is not always everything.

I've not noticed much problems here lately..they blamed it on the server being over loaded or someone trying to attack it. I asked to be moved one time but they refused saying it wasn't in the contract. I have to say it is very cheap..the site stays up for the most part that I can tell but you might want to discuss issues like this with sales before diving in. I do feel they should switch you to another server if one certain one is having problems upon request at least once.

blacklab · Post by **blacklab** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:29 pm

Found this list the other days and thought I would pass it on.

Hosting Sites

monkeyhead · Post by **monkeyhead** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:18 pm

http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/

AIM and yahoo is part of their tech support repertoire. and everything else with them has been great

blacklab · Post by **blacklab** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:38 pm

monkeyhead wrote:http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/

AIM and yahoo is part of their tech support repertoire. and everything else with them has been great

Having Yahoo involved in anything is a good reason to stay away from it.

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:50 pm

I've got a decent server on which I could host anyone who wants it. We only have it for client sites and it really doesn't get used like it should. It's extremely fast. I don't want to make money, just cover costs. Let me know if anyone wants more information. Guaranteed to blow away any of those oversold shared hosting services (not in space but actual performance.. who needs 1,500GB of web space anyways?).