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16 Responses to “Shared Hosting”

1. 1 Mike Posted June 27th, 2008 - 21:18

   Shared hosts are a bit of a hit and miss…
   One host that tries really hard to provide quality service is WebFaction ( http://www.webfaction.com )

2. 2 Uwe Posted June 27th, 2008 - 22:04

   Hi,

   i have a small website and i can totally agree with you. Most of the hosters have to many users on her servers. All users are affected by one guy with a terrible script.

   Especially the new trend to ‘unlimited’ space/traffic is the death of high performance websites.

   The only way is an own dedicated server

3. 3 Niels Steinmeier Posted June 28th, 2008 - 12:13

   I couldn’t agree more with you.
   Both on the Shared Hosting thing … and the Happy Weekend

4. 4 Niels Steinmeier Posted June 28th, 2008 - 12:15

   Thank you for the AWESOME WP-plugin by the way.
   I use it on my family website .. in danish .. sorry

   http://www.beuchert-steinmeier.dk

5. 5 Robert Posted June 30th, 2008 - 18:33

   You might want to look into a “Virtual Private Server” plan. They tend to be more expensive, but you get a virtual server all to yourself.

   I have about 15 WP blogs running on mine… and it works like a champ.

6. 6 Dan Milward Posted July 3rd, 2008 - 04:48

   Hey Buddy. I just emailed you my thoughts on this

7. 7 Dreamcolor Posted July 5th, 2008 - 12:42

   I just can say good luck.

8. 8 Dave Posted July 5th, 2008 - 19:15

   That’s why I got my own server! €800,- 2GB mem; 2x 2,66Ghz; 2x 500GB; 1000Mbp/s + Windows Home Server (ISS build in)!!!

9. 9 Tom Hermans Posted July 6th, 2008 - 13:00

   I feel your pain. Almost the same thing happened to me twice in a month. For a project I’m working on the guys already had a domain and hosting arranged. But their server is sucky, and the support is zero. First time they shut it down, second time they disabled cron-jobs, and when our mass-mailing went out (and people would come and visit) the server went down (because of the load…?) In a weekend and of course the standard response via the helpdesk : nothing at all.

   I’m going for dedicated hosting, that’s for sure.

   btw, your plugin gets better and better

   T.

10. 10 alex.rabe Posted July 6th, 2008 - 13:24

    @Dave
    Yes, I feel a “home” server (Better with apache than Windows) is a good solution as long as you have enough bandwidth.

11. 11 Ashley Harvey Posted July 14th, 2008 - 08:01

    I use Site5 and I love them.
    http://www.site5.com/in.php?id=54422

12. 12 Graham Posted July 22nd, 2008 - 12:02

    http://www.AmpleHosting.co.za is a good idea – been around for a long time and the service is good as well.

13. 13 Daniel Posted July 27th, 2008 - 09:20

    I use joyent/textdrive (www.joyent.com), there hosting is awesome cant fault it in anyway, the only time it goes down is when I have broken it myself.

    They give you ssh access to the server which sometimes is incredibly handy to have, you get a lot of other things that you may not want however like svn repos, cron jobs, there control panel is webmin, maybe ugly but incredibly powerful, also they have phpmyadmin pre-installed for your use on each of there servers too.

    I really cant fault them in anyway.

14. 14 Matthew Posted August 5th, 2008 - 18:49

    For a good shared host check out FanaticalHost.com and if you want to go with a VPS i recommend SuperBytes.net

15. 15 Sebastian Posted August 8th, 2008 - 10:20

    I’m on site 5 and I love them too!!! After running on bluehost and dreamhost – now it’s working nearly everything !

    Sebastain

16. 16 canadian website hosting Posted September 14th, 2008 - 03:47

    I agree about godaddy – horrible company. i’ve never come across another provider that were so oppressive.