Choosing the right provider!?

Dmitry · 12-07-2006, 05:50 PM

Choosing the right webhosting provider proved very difficult, as the vast availability of resources that rank, review, rate, provide testimonials about webhosting providers are contradicting each other; while one says that company X is the best and most reliable, another states that company X is the worst ever. It seems that internet in its glorifying stage of web2.0 -> web3.0 with the new built edifice of reviews and true testimonials has confused the available information into a pile of junk, which makes it impossible to decide where the truth really lies.

In the last month, I have changed my webhosting providers 4 times. I started with FastHosts (they charge monthly fees for having more than 5 e-mail accounts!), moved to Strato (found out that their promise to provide name servers in Nov'06 was not true), I moved on to IX Webhosting (found that the site is down almost every day), now I have moved to Yahoo (waiting for something to happen).

I now turn to forums. Can anyone advise which wehosting provider truly is the most reliable in your experience? I am just looking for a good amount of disk space, bandwidth, good e-mail/web-mail system, and up-time of 99.99%. My site http://www.dealslocally.com is hopefully up and coming, and I need to get a reliable host.

TubHosting · 12-08-2006, 01:27 AM

Hmm, there alot of webhosting company nowadays. Company like hostgator, resellerzoom has some pretty good reputation.

Dmitry · 12-08-2006, 02:35 AM

Thanks! I'll take a look. Heard of hostgator, I think there are new to the market; perhaps that does make them less complaisant.

gannik · 12-08-2006, 02:38 AM

As for me I'd name among the reputable companies such as: exabytes.com and ahosting.biz. Both these companies have nice prices and responsive support. But maybe exabytes' support works not very fast though good.

CapsLOCK · 12-08-2006, 03:07 AM

I suggest you visit hostsaerch or something like that.

Dmitry · 12-08-2006, 05:20 AM

Thanks for the new leads! Tried hostsearch, but it seems there are so many recommendations out there, not sure whom you can trust

Dmitry · 12-08-2006, 05:23 AM

I had a thought

... looking through many reviews, Yahoo hosting does not come first, but constantly lands in the first 10. They seem expensive, by comparison, but I am wondering whether perhaps although expensive, they are actually reliable. Big company, may have really good servers, which are not overloaded.

Any thoughts on Yahoo hosting?