Comments on: Who’s your favorite website hosting company?

By: Looking for Web Hosting

Looking for Web Hosting — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:38:48 +0000

[...] Jim Boykin ’s page asking for web hosting advice is a nice resource. There are some good links in there and I’m looking into several of the places from his roundup. [...]

By: IRHusker

IRHusker — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:18:31 +0000

I’ve used so many and still use several now. However for my “money” site I stay with internetconnection.net and have no plans for leaving. So far(after 2 years) their support has been second to none. Very personal and thorough support means as much as anything when it comes to hosting. Their services and up time have never been a disappointment either.

By: Christian Montoya

Christian Montoya — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:30:48 +0000

Give Dreamhost a chance! They are great through e-mail and live-chat, their prices and features are tops too. 1000 gigs of bandwidth for a basic plan… can’t argue with that!

By: datanumeric

datanumeric — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:25:59 +0000

Hosting scenario is changing, now many data centers provide good Server hardware and connectivity. Then what you need is good server administrator, you can hire independent admins or small teams.

By: oilman

oilman — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:04:19 +0000

I’m a huge Pair fan. Been with them 7 years. Never had to call support once. Can count on one hand how many times my server has been down. It’s always been fixed without me even having to submit a support ticket or call. Failed hard drive - about 10-20 minutes downtime. Failed network card - 5 min etc etc. In the support section you can see the status of each and every server and they also post when a server has gone down, why it went down, and how long it took get back online. urgent@pair.com is answered in minutes too.

By: harveyramer

harveyramer — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:39:46 +0000

Charles:

I’ve heard that Dreamhost is exceptional and would also consider Media Temple.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:17:38 +0000

Dreamhost is just the best.

I’ve used them for years, and twice made the mistake of using someone else.

Someone whined about their “unpublished phone number”, but the reality is (1) their email support is great, and (2) customers get a certain number of live callback requests. The support system works, and it’s one of the reasons they can keep costs low.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:11:07 +0000

For hosting a lot of smaller domains (not interlinked) that I might need a database or something for each, I actually prefer HostGator. Easy to use and maintain multiple domains.

For a premium site that is using dedicated, Pair is the best. They are expensive, but you get what you pay for. I’d love to use them for shared as they provide you with different IPs for each domain, but files are viewable to anyone on the server and you have to setup a CGI wrap to hide them. Just a pain in my opinion.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:10:41 +0000

anyone posting their votes after my list of 7 above are non subject to my testing - use at your own risk.
Jim

By: Michael Teper

Michael Teper — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:54:32 +0000

I’ll throw this in as a Windows host alternative — I’ve had a good experience so far with http://www.webhost4life.com. Havent tried phone but chat and support tickets have been answered quickly and people knew what they were talking about.