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Why did you choose your current web hosting company?

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It seems like the Web Hosting market is quite saturated with similar offers and benefits.

 

I chose my current hosting company due to two key factors. One is reliability and freedom to do whatever I need to do with my box. The cost really wasn't the motivating factor for me.

 

I'm sure you have different needs and probably different reasons why you chose your current company.

 

Can you share those reasons?

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I use DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/)

Apart from their advertised features, they have a really good API to automate the creation of new servers, dns records and so on, they also have really good community/staff tutorials and a nice collection of projects on the go

 

I don't get much use out of the tutorials (though they have come in handy for unfamiliar distros), but the API is one the most useful tools when it comes to hosting and DigitalOcean is extremely developer-friendly.

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I went with Linode because I read a single blog post showing they were cheaper than Amazon.

 

I picked my DNS registrar because of a single reply on another blog post.

 

I think I might be impulsive...

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27 minutes ago, The_Decryptor said:

I went with Linode because I read a single blog post showing they were cheaper than Amazon.

 

I picked my DNS registrar because of a single reply on another blog post.

 

I think I might be impulsive...

I chose Linode because The_Decryptor told me to, that probably makes me even worse..._

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I use NearlyFreeSpeech.net because they're super competent, no ######, and ridiculously cheap for low resource usage sites due to the usage based pricing.

 

 

On 2015-12-09, 1:55:26, wrack said:

I am using http://www.arvixe.com because I was fed  up with GoDaddy (Go figure!) and their customer service, prices and up time is pretty good.

Head's up: they got bought up by EIG and immediately gutted. This happened even faster than the usual speed that EIG takes to ruin a host, nobody really knows why they did it so quickly.

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1 hour ago, primexx said:

Head's up: they got bought up by EIG and immediately gutted. This happened even faster than the usual speed that EIG takes to ruin a host, nobody really knows why they did it so quickly.

Hmm. I didn't know that. I don't even know who EIG are? So far Arvixe has been good. I haven't noticed anything unusual!

 

Any experience with 1and1?

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1 hour ago, wrack said:

Hmm. I didn't know that. I don't even know who EIG are? So far Arvixe has been good. I haven't noticed anything unusual!

 

Any experience with 1and1?

EIG is a huge webhosting conglomerate whose modus operandi is to buy successful hosts and milk everything they can out of it. They destroy everything that made the host good, consolidates everything onto their own datacenters that serve multiple brands, and consolidate all the staff into centralized teams that are incompetent and treated poorly. They don't give a ###### about quality, they just want to sell poor quality cookie cutter hosting to unsuspecting customers. They own almost all of the major brands you come across, and hides behind them to create the illusion of competition. Their corporate website only lists a very small fraction of their properties. This is the best list of EIG brands right now. You'll do well to avoid all of them. I'm surprised you haven't noticed anything yet, just because of the violent nature of the Arvixe transition. There's basically no Arvixe anymore. Almost all the staff has been fired, and a lot of customers actually noticed immediate degradation in service. This was actually quite unusual since it usually takes about 6 months from the acquisition.

 

1&1 has been around for a while and is another host that's notorious for bad customer service and shady practices. You'll also want to steer clear of anything GoDaddy (their subsidiary brands usually have a similar star in the logo). Pretty much anything you'd find in "top 10 web host" kind of lists are paid ads for ###### services.

 

Just a few suggestions off the top of my head: if you want VPS hosting you can look at Digital Ocean, Linode, BuyVM. For shared hosts check out BuyShared, Stable Host, 1984.is, easyweb.com.

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I went with DigitalOcean because I was fairly new to the world of spin-up-as-you-need hosts, and their pitch of setting up a server in less than a minute hooked me - mostly because it lived up to the hype. I'm a sucker for good marketing.

 

But I also pay around $5/month for a server that does much more than I need it to, that I can mess around with as much as I like, and that I can snapshot and revert to if I do something that breaks. It's a good way to learn about managing a server, and developing good habits around it. And the longer you have a fully functioning server, the more uses you find for having a system that is almost definitely connected to the Internet at all times.

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43 minutes ago, primexx said:

EIG is a huge webhosting conglomerate whose modus operandi is to buy successful hosts and milk everything they can out of it. They destroy everything that made the host good, consolidates everything onto their own datacenters that serve multiple brands, and consolidate all the staff into centralized teams that are incompetent and treated poorly. They don't give a ###### about quality, they just want to sell poor quality cookie cutter hosting to unsuspecting customers. They own almost all of the major brands you come across, and hides behind them to create the illusion of competition. Their corporate website only lists a very small fraction of their properties. This is the best list of EIG brands right now. You'll do well to avoid all of them. I'm surprised you haven't noticed anything yet, just because of the violent nature of the Arvixe transition. There's basically no Arvixe anymore. Almost all the staff has been fired, and a lot of customers actually noticed immediate degradation in service. This was actually quite unusual since it usually takes about 6 months from the acquisition.

 

1&1 has been around for a while and is another host that's notorious for bad customer service and shady practices. You'll also want to steer clear of anything GoDaddy (their subsidiary brands usually have a similar star in the logo). Pretty much anything you'd find in "top 10 web host" kind of lists are paid ads for ###### services.

 

Just a few suggestions off the top of my head: if you want VPS hosting you can look at Digital Ocean, Linode, BuyVM. For shared hosts check out BuyShared, Stable Host, 1984.is, easyweb.com.

Thanks. Looks like a ###### strom in the web.

 

Another one of the reasons I went with Arvixe was the unlimited number of SQL Databases (SQL Express) and there was no size limit either (apart from what the SQL Express restricts).

 

I am still trying to find out.

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I use FatCow, which is more pricey than other options, but they have support for almost everything, have really great customer support, make management easy, and I totally trust them as more than a registrar/host.

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I have tried several hosting providers. I like using hostforlife.eu and asphostportal. I use hostforlife and it is only cost me around EUR 5.00/month, it has come with unlimited disk space, bandwith, MSSQL database. And what I truly like is they have different data centers in Europe so I can target my europe customers. Asphostportal is also good choice, comes with cheap price with rich features too. 

 

The other provider that I like is windows Azure. I can easily deploy my site to their environment. But, the minus thing is they are quite expensive if you use SQL server. 

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AWS at work. We deploy with Docker to a Kubernetes cluster that spans multiple availability zones. We've built a pretty nice stack.

 

A couple of virtual private servers on Azure for some small personal sites, because I get free Azure credits via BizSpark.

 

Google's Container Engine for an upcoming pet project of mine, because a fully managed Kubernetes cluster will allow me to concentrate on writing the web services rather than having to also manage infrastructure.

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