Who has a good shared server host?
I’m not going to mention who we use, but it’s been one headache after another. At least 95% of the technical problems with our site have been server side, and the frequency of MySQL server crashes is insane. The most recent crash corrupted some of our data in the wordpress database. So the site might not look so great for the next 24 hours or so while I try to get things back to normal. I would love to hear any suggestions for a new shared hosting solution. What I’m looking for more than anything else is stability. We have weekly crashes that last for hours and tech support that doesn’t care, and it’s driving me insane!
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Since I just helped a friend who had similar experiences with his old host to move his site, I´m gonna recommend MediaTemple.
And reportedly Dreamhost is pretty good also.
11 Jun 2007 at 3:07 pm
QuoteI’ve been using WebFaction for 6 months and I definitely recommend them. Stable servers and best customer support I’ve ever seen !
12 Jun 2007 at 4:09 am
Quoteiquesthosting.com - Haven’t had any issues in years with them since they bought my previous web host.
Good luck.
12 Jun 2007 at 6:52 am
QuoteLunarpages. They’re rock solid, and really affordable. All my web clients use them. About $100 a year, and free domain hosting. And they have WordPress as a simple install.
And, if you do, there’s a link on the links page of the thomz.com site, and I get a kickback. Full disclosure and all.
12 Jun 2007 at 8:45 am
QuoteThanks so much for everybody’s input. I’ll look over pricing schemes and discuss with the rest of the panteon.
Thom, if we use Lunarpages, I’ll be sure to use your link.
12 Jun 2007 at 12:34 pm
QuoteYou may want to check out http://www.boilingpoint.com too.
It’s owned and run by Jonah Weiland of CBR, and he does a great job!
12 Jun 2007 at 1:02 pm
QuoteI have used both Dreamhost and Lunarpages in the past.
Lunarpages support is excellent and their hosting was mostly very good, but I did have problems in the first couple of weeks as I was on the same server as someone who was basically killing it with their site. I would happily use them again and think they would be a great match for the site, as they very obligingly did the hard work transferring existing data from another server when I changed hosts to use them.
Dreamhost I currently use (it basically came down to price for the package I wanted) and they are also very good, their support is slightly less responsive but they have excellent one click installs for a lot of software packages. They did have problems and changed their location site last year, but I have been with them for going on four years now and would recommend them quite happily.
12 Jun 2007 at 1:06 pm
QuoteI will second this, while Dreamhost are not as reponsive, and their back end management has a little to be desired. I highly reccomend them to anyone who needs a cheap quality host.
17 Jun 2007 at 7:38 am
QuoteI’ve used dreamhost, lunarpages, and many other budget hosts and the only one I can recommend without reservations, is mediatemple.com. I have never had any outages or problems and they have lots of features on the backend.
18 Jun 2007 at 8:09 pm
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