Hosting Reviews and Suggestions
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I have been going round in circles trying to find a Hostings company with a good reputation and service etc...
For ever one you find you find reviews sayings its shocking... I was planning to take a straw poll using the vote up and down function to try and spot good ones. I will add the ones I know about or use/tried. If you like just vote up. Any more suggestions for companies please add them with your views. Try and reply to the right hostings companies with reviews.
Not sure if this is suitable for SEOMoz I apologise if this is not and offends anyone.
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As I suspected everyone has a different favourite.... Going to need more people to weigh in with opinions before we start to see a pattern.
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If you are starting out then I recommend the Hostgator baby croc package they have absolutely brilliant support and all the scripts and features you will ever need from cPanel hosting.
Hope that helps
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Dediserve.com - I cannot speak highly enough of them. After messing around with shared hosting for years I finally decided VPS was the way forward. Not the cheapest but by far the best value and I've been with them all!! (including 3 of those you mention above).
Edit: Check out their Twitter page for plenty of good mentions. Also I guess I should have put my affiliate link in there too
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Hi Rob,
Thanks for your input I'm closely looking at UK2.Net for my simple sites and then RackSpace when I get bigger. Heard RackSpace mentioned ALOT.
Also curious about setting up a backup service for the sites just in case can't make my mind up to backup to my local server or find another service... not sure.
Yeah GoDaddy is crap lol...been there done that got the t-shirt. So my vote is UK2.Net I think....
Thanks for the advice... deleting them now...
Hopefully this post will benefit everyone, Wasn't sure if a forum would be as good to find this out so decided to ask here hoping the input would be better...PS: Can't edit the post :S
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Digi
The way you are doing this is probably not the best way to find out. I suggest editing out the 6 or so ones you have put up here as the thumbs up and down are not for what you are trying. Why not simply put up the question without that. You could still use an ordered list to throw out some names for people to ponder. Maybe ask them to give their top three and then you tabulate them in a couple of days and add as a reply on this question.
First you need to clarify whether you are talking about hosting for a single site or a dedicated server to put multiple sites/clients on.
We use a dedicated for most of our clients and, for me, the best I have used is RackSpace, but they are expensive. Blue Host is used by our dev team along with Network Solutions for hosting a couple of simple client sites.
Who I have quit using (unfortunately a lot of clients are still on server and/or hosted sites still) GoDaddy.com because of service, and their support of SOPA. I also quit using media Temple because we just had too many times when our sites went down.
Hopefully, there will be some good input on this for you as I am interested too. I move all hosting, etc. in June so I need to know.
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I don't know anyone knows them or not, its a india based data center
CTRLS
Top notch service, and great service. I am using their service from almost a year and never had any issue.
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RackSpace Hosting
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UK2Net
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JustHost
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Bluehost
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Cheapnames.co.uk (Namesco - UK)
Currently using and happy with them.
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Fasthosts (UK)
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