Who is your favorite & least favorite host?
With Boonex posting Blogs of recent mentioning different hosts and all the hoopla going on over who is a good host and who is a bad host, why don't we make up a list of who we like and who we don't like as a hosting company? This could be something that the newbies can reference and the bias of an affiliate system is removed from it, since this isn't by Boonex. Just honest feedback relating to your personal experience with a hosting company, this way we stay inside the rules of discussion that Boonex has put out there.
The Good Ones in My Book:
#1 Host For Web: Yes, they host my stuff and I find them to provide really good support, quick turn time on tickets, professional management of my servers and a reasonable price. They are not the cheapest out there, but they do give you what you pay for and in the end the time I save with them managing the servers makes it worth the price I pay.
#2 Terabyte-Hosting Solutions: We all know I've had my run ins with THS, but in the end I have to admit (begrudgingly) that overall they provide a good product that meets the needs of alot of dolphin site owners. Turn time in my experience (don't jump me here DD) is not as quick as HFW but for the most part, it is acceptable. the prices are inline with the industry and what a dolphin site host should be charging.
My Bad Hosts:
#1: Arvixe: In my personal experience and opinion Arvixe advertises a product that can not and will not deliever what is expected. By offering unlimited bandwidth & disc space and then limiting in an extremely vague manner issues such as CPU usage and suspending accounts makes them the worst Dolphin host out there. There may be worse ones, but I don't have experience with them myself.
#2: Godaddy: Okay, they provide a service but in the end, their servers are not configured to run Dolphin and it takes a ton of work to get even a base dolphin to run, forget running the Ray Widgets on their servers in my opinion.
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During my time with them, the support was sub-par and their servers were always under-fire. When I finally had enough with them, I moved off to another web hosting company, but leaving them was a hassle in itself. The support team seemed clingy on trying to keep me, I only managed to cancel my web hosting package when I agreed to let them manage my domain name. A mistake, since they later decided to not issue me an invoice, and not allow see more
I can co domain register to.
Least Favorite 1and1 Internet Hosting. (while relatively good for reliability, it's like pulling teeth to get anything done through support and you have to jump through hoops to make any changes).
I am on their business plan and for Dolphn I would not suggest going for anything less than that.
They have a 24/7 support line. So when you have an issue you get to talk to a real person and usually have your problem sorted out immediately, as opposed to being at the mercy of an online ticket system.
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Good Host has to be Joombyte.com for its up time and how quick they get back to you if you have an issue or something.
Bad host (speaking dolphin only) has got to me Hostgator, they say they run dolphin on their cheaper shared, but in reality they simply dont.
Right now I have websites spread out over 3 or 4 hosts and my virtual dedicated servers on Godaddy have the most uptime and the least issues.
Currently I am with Joombyte and purchased their Dolphin200 package. I would have to say it has been nothing but a pleasure since I have moved over to them. My site is fast and response time for any issues is extremely quick.
Bad(Kinda):
I was previously with Cirtex and had some issue with alot of my mods after they decided to install suPhP on the server I was on. After several emails back and forth with them, they said they would not allow me to have the needed configurations in my .htaccess see more
so far has been terabyte-hosting. Both shared and dedicated.
The worst.
Godaddy. At least the shared. I have not worked with a VMS from godaddy, so i cannot comment. But the shared hosting is not very good at all.
Switched to HostForWeb and it was horrible. Account creating was basically nothing. No index or any type of a landing page. Dropped right into folder lever. Never saw a host do that. A clean install of Dolphin would not work. Took several support tickets to get things working. Each time see more
Only a few that I know of that really see more
In general, "unlimited" offers, along with bucket hosts who cram their servers and have overselling as a central part of their business model, are best kept at a safe distance. Seen enough of those, fortunately went through the cheapo hop only a couple of times myself back in the days.