Who is your favourite Hosting Provider?

That's the equivalent to asking "Who is currently hosting your site"? We've all gravitated towards a host that suits our needs and will stay with them unless they screw up so badly that we're forced to switch. After all, nobody is going to reply that: "My favorite host is HostX, they're the absolute best. Oh, but I use HostY because I don't trust my own opinion".

The problem with such a general "Who's your favorite host?" question is that it leads to spammed advertising masquerading as opinions. Plenty of hosts feel no shame at flooding forums with messages touting their own service, but posted under a pseudonym to make it look legitimate. If you want an honest assessment of an individual host, feel free to ask. Anyone that has used them will be happy to tell you about the pluses and minuses of that company. I've just never seen such an open-ended question like "who's your favorite" lead to any productive discussions. It's like that "less filling - tastes great" debate. There's not ever going to be a winner.

BTW, lite beer stinks!

I've used Jumpline for two of my domains and I've been very happy with them. I've also used Smarthosting which also was a nice experience. I now have my domains on dedicated server at Dialtoneinternet.
If it wasn't for Powersurge and Communitech my experience with host companies would have been great

Try Veoweb.net too, they seem good.

MAverick:

I am going to throw a spanner in the works and prove you wrong! (Sorry ) Anyway, I currently allow BT to host my site but that's not cause I think they are best but because they suit my needs. When Computer magazines are told to find out who the best ISP is then they have to come up with a name.

Important factors are to seperate the hosts depending on what services they offer so yes asking who is the best host is a wild stab in the dark! Some people need cgi and only 2 e-mail accounts and some people don't give a flip (<--see I didn't swear!) about cgi and would prefer to have 100 e-mail accounts.

Cost of Ownership and reliability are the two most important factors here so calculating these things and seperating them into the various categories would be the most viable thing to do. So host x gives you this and host y gives you that! So if you want to do this then I would go for y but if you want to go for that then go for x but stay away from z cause they are crap!

Lite beer is indeed crap!

~Vy~

I agree with the anti-spammers....
Can be simplified by only looking at those members with lotsa posts to their name...

Ive been reading this site for a couple of hours and have to say, I've never sensed so many spammers....!!!

But I have got some usefull leads though, thanks to the non-spammers.

Cel

Cel,

It is very difficult to keep up with the spam, especially in this forum. We can't delete posts merely because the poster only has 1 or 2 posts, but we will delete any post where the poster does not have the Web Site listed in their profile or listed in their message.

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Wow- a spammer who doesn't lie. I respect you for that!

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What do you think of:
- GlobalHosting?
- Syonic?
- DTS-NET?

Who would you recommend for Cold Fusion hosting? I am looking for pretty reliable, but cheap as possible. I'm building an auction site and need a temporary place to host the site while it's being built. After it's built, I think I have a good solution.

Thanks, ~dso

>>If you want an honest assessment of an individual host, feel free to ask. Anyone that has used them will be happy to tell you about the pluses and minuses of that company.<<

My two favorite hosts would have to be

• Dynamic Internet Solutions
  
• FutureQuest
  

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[This message has been edited by Stefen Enns (edited 13 April 2000).]

My favorite host's are:

Site5 Internet Solutions (www.site5.com)
Dynamic Internet Solutions (www.dids.com)
Burlee (www.burlee.com)
FutureQuest (www.futurequest.net

Well, ER is on.

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I am currently setting up a site on IArna.net, and so far they seem very good. Their tech support is excellent.

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Get paid $20 - $160 an hour for viewing adverts

I have used E-Access for over a year, but...I do not fit the typical profile of most folks here.

I'm just a preacher who created and maintains his ministries website (and do a very good job I might add)and I did it without any help or training, just figurin it out as I went...

E-Access had been very reliable and I get 150mb for $12.50 mo. but I have one concern which leads me to consider changing. Perhaps I could use some free expert advice??

The host does not support Real streaming audio, I have 3 30 second sound files, samples of our musical styles, these must download first, then play. is this a big problem or should I live with it?

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quote:Originally posted by extrmbob:
Tierranet, Inc., http://www.tierranet.com , is the best I have used and I used a few of them. I have been with them for over 2 years now and in that time have never had any downtime and every e-mail I have sent them was responded to within a few minutes. They don't give you alot of extras like some of the hosts do but as far as service and support goes I don't think you'll find one better. I'm always open to looking at what other hosts offer and so far I haven't found one to compare. They are honest and upfront with you.

Thank you,
Bob

Wow, your the first person in this forum that uses Tierranet also. I agree with you, Tierranet is awesome. Thier support is great and thier services are great!

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I can understand saying you have 70+ domains. But how do you figure the HTML count?

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I do web work for a living, I've built over 4,600 html pages, many scripts and run over 70 domains. Here are my favorites:

hyperhosting.com
pair.com

For NT, I like:
hostingsolutions.net

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you spend a weekend counting each page

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Wow! Been away for so long and this post still EXIST Hehe

i gotta say it,
virtual-cities.net
also know as
webhosting-network.com

i have just opened an account with them, the transition was hard because of various problems, but i asked about 100 questions over the period of about 2-3 hours over 2-3 days and every one was answered relevantly, and each answer was helpful and had sir in it.

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Hi,

I can tell you who I won't use anymore. www.www-discount.de
They have some great deals and their setup is really fast and their systems are reliable,
but if something goes wrong it get's _never_ fixed.
btw: They are the ones who blocked my webhome.de domain for over 14 month.

addr.net is close to go to my blacklist, but I'll give them one more chance.
Why ? I spent the whole weekend to develop a php+mysql based forum suite and it worked on my testsystem, but on the host (www.biker-forum.com) it doesn't because I keep loosing the connection to the database.

I like iwebhosting, but I only use them for adult sites. The best thing about them is, that they'll add additional virtual domains to your account for free. Believe me that can make or break an adult site.
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They just got a small penalty ... this will only host domains for which they also host the primary DNS.

My main provider (from which I resell) is www.power-netz.de, but they started moving from the US-Backbone to germany, so that only works out for europe based companies

just my thoughts.

ciao
Anti
ps:
If you got negative feedback from me ... don't sue me, I'm just expressing my personal experiences ....

pps:
Why are the providers (auto)-hrefed and my domains not ??

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I can tell you who I will not be using anymore: ICOM.com .
They are fairly inexpensive, but they charged my credit card without my permission with $30 just to get cgi working (which was supposed to work from the beginning on).
Furthermore, they are quite unstable with a significant amount of server downtime.
No recommendations from me for this californian company!

I must say, after reading this thread all the way through, and checking out a few hosts, DIDS looks extremely impressive (in my opinion anyway). The only reason I'd call them the best is because they have a bunch of different packages, much more than I'm used to seeing. I do agree with most of you though, that it's pretty unfair to tag any one host as being "the best." It all depends on what your needs are... Keep the messages comin, I'm looking to park somewhere and need some ideas

Regards,
-Ben C

Just some small updates.

I won't use addr.net anymore.
They have a broken libc which prevents me from using blobs within mysql.

I told them 3 weeks ago, but they are to stubborn to fix it.

ciao
Anti

I host my site (http://echodev.com/) on HostRocket.com and it's been pretty good to me so far.

Boris

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HostRocket seems good...I know for a fact that despite some massive downtime recently (a day or two, at least), they made it up to some of their clients by offering a few free months of hosting...

I personally swear by http://www.thinkhost.com - it's almost nauseating how quickly they answer my stupid questions.

And no, I don't work for them...I'm just hosted there and totally in love with the service.

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"I'm not an insomniac, I'm a web designer."

I'm happiest with our own dedicated, in-house servers, connected through BlueStar ADSL. Two Pentiums, with 256K memory, serving up 200,000+ page views per day. Works great, costs less, makes us money.

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Yea I'm with ThinkHost as well and their support is excellent. They listen to their customers as well. Currently they are developing their support area which I have just inspected and it is looking very good.

Prices are affordable and features are excellent. I fully recommend them.

If any of you decide to go with them say you were referred by sifox.com

Gem
Sifox design coming soon.

Yeah...the new support are will allow creation of POP boxes, forwarders, autoresponders, and even disk space quotes for directories (I think!)...all kinds of cool stuff...I think something for subdomain creation for qualifying accounts, too...quite frankly I'd continue to use them even without the panel!

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"I'm not an insomniac, I'm a web designer."

Go with HostMatters.com ... GOod one, signed up myself, got online 15 minutes, really cool!! Other host can be 1 day, sometimes never..

I plan move my server to Alabanza, very nice server!

I actually have two favoriate hosts:

Jumpline.com
ThinkHost.com

However, I really do think that ThinkHost.com beat Jumpline in support, service, uptime and all that. I highly recommend them.

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Despite its downtime and server problems, I like HostRocket.

ThinkHost is great though, excellent support, great price, great features, solid uptime.

What more could you want?

I would check out hostindex.com. They are a large index of hosts, with categories to help you suit your individual needs. Good luck.

Worldwebservercom, wwsi.net (They are the same) I know the owner. Very personal, quick response, good prices and the list goes on. You need a perl mod. installed? It done for free and quickly. Need MX records changed. Free. I host with them. Found out about them originally through webdiscuss.com. Front page to a newsgroup(true) for general web discussion check it out. They have their own Opensrs link in etc. They are NOT resellers. The options with your account ar almost endless. Need something not listed. It will be given a price and gotten done if possible. Oh if any one chooses them mention my name. I'm not sure if I will (AND i MEAN THIS SERSIOUSLY) get some discount for a month or something.

Brian Wilmot

I have to say my favorite hosting company is ThinkHost. They offer *extremely* affordable plans, with lightning-fast support. I've never had a support request take longer than 5 minutes. As a web designer, I recommend ThinkHost to all my clients. This is an excellent service. Check them out at http://www.thinkhost.com/.

[Edited by Doc on 07-04-2000 at 12:09 AM]

I second Doc's recommendation - ThinkHost is amazing. Support is great, the server is speedy, features are amazing, everything is great.

Definately try ThinkHost.

Man, it's like everyone is with ThinkHosting. They're taking over the world Actually I still like BurstNET. I'll soon be getting a dedicated server with them, and they've been helpful so far. They're always online on AIM so it's really convenient.

We were with Jumpline for about 4 months and started having a few small problems with their service. I switched to Interliant http://webhosting.interliant.com about 2 months ago, and signed up for their Dedicated Service. We started with 1 RaQ2 server and just added a Raq3. Definately the way to go if you are hosting a decent number of sites. For us the cost effectiveness is well worth it.
It isn't a reseller program in the usual sense, it is a lease program. You have your own Cobalt server, which you administer through a web-based interface. And tech support that we found is second to none. A RaQ2 runs $180 per month and will host up to 200 sites for that flat fee.

Justin,

Just a tiny comment -- we are in NO WAY associated with thinkhosting.com -- please don't make that mistake.

Its not even a company I don't think

Sincerely,

Vladislav Davidzon
Senior Network Administrator - ThinkHost Web Hosting Services
The smart choice for all your web hosting needs! (tm)
http://www.thinkhost.com

There is a domain http://www.thinkhosting.com

Registered through Easyspace(Domain registrar $7.99 per year)

NSS,

Yes I saw that, and I sure as heck hope they aren't planning on opening a web hosting company... Gurr. I would have to be confused with some weird competitor.

Sincerely,

Vladislav Davidzon
Senior Network Administrator - ThinkHost Web Hosting Services
The smart choice for all your web hosting needs! (tm)
http://www.thinkhost.com

I like ThinkHost. Some of my friends use them and find them very useful.

I like hostrocket. It's the most reliable host i've used. I just started with them like a couple days ago. I especially like the speed in which i can connect to upload everything. Now all i got to do is learn how to make good web pages and i'm all set.

FutureQuest

I moved my account to them on a Saturday night, and was set up within 30 mins. I have not had to use their support yes, so I don't know anything about it, but they a a forum area that keeps everyone up to date on any server issues.

My favorite/current host is http://www.digitalspace.net - the prices and features cannot be matched. Although support is sometimes slow, the servers are nearly always up and run without any problems.

I like http://www.powersurge.net,

I currently have 3 accounts with them and referred many people. I believe they have a good service that suits my needs.