Which web host do you use?

[Paul]

Just wondering which web hosts you guys are using and what kind of experiences you've had with them. How's support? Pricing? Space and bandwidth?

[Subdriver]

I know nothing about this really...

I chose Earthlink. Company I have delt with before and trusted.

I've had my website with them for a year now with no issues and recently bought a second one with them solely for my AMSOIL dealership I am working on. Prices, bandwidth, etc are all here:
http://www.earthlink.net/biz/hosting/

https://store.earthlink.net/cgi-bin/...ubtype=hosting

[chrisj]

My wife has two sites. One is run through crystaltech and the other is through hostpc.
She just recently started a site with hostpc. We have been using crystaltech for a few years, but she started checking prices/bandwidth/etc and found some better deals elsewhere.

She also looked at vervehosting.com and found it had high ratings on epinions.com.

I remember her saying it was kind of tough to find reliable feedback on hosting plans, but she is the tech person not me - so I can just pass on these pieces that I recall.

chris

[3Pedal_Z06]

I am using Powweb for both my personal site, and a car club site. For that, it has been fine. I don't know what they do for eCommerce or anything, but the price and reliability have been good enough for my stuff.

[NETfiend]

I just run apache directly on my cable modem. Makes a fine website as long as you aren't planning on having huge amounts of visitors.

If your looking for something for a bigger website, performancehosting.net has pretty good prices and fast servers.

[chrisj]

Got some more data from my wife.
Forgive me if it doesn't make sense, I'm doing a little cut and paste here.

Crystaltech:
We had them and are moving away from them. I asked her why we were switching and here is her response.

Crystaltech is overpriced, tech support has gotten less helpful and more rude, and the spam filters aren't working well. They also have terrible uptime for their servers, according to that netcraft website. On the other hand, I rarely notice my site being down (although it was two days ago, but I'm not sure for how long) and they're pretty good about updating the servers with new software. They only run IIS which is our main reason for moving away - I want Apache.

Host PC:
This is our new web host and here is what she had to say:

Very impressed with HOstpc so far, especially considering the cost. They pre-install scripts so with a click of a button I installed a content management system, with no extra cost to me. These are the scripts that are pre-installed.
http://www.hostpc.com/index.php?opti...18&Itemid=4 5

As for checking others, she suggested the following:

you can tell him to check out www.netcraft.com to check on host uptime and to see what servers they are running. Go to that site and use the "what is that site running" search box near top left

When she chose to use hostpc she also looked at Dreamhost, Verve, and LunarPages.

If you want more info, pop me a PM and I will run it through her.

Good luck with your choice. She ended up with a spreadsheet comparing storage, bandwidth, email accounts and other features.

chris

[Pictureman]

I've been using these guys since April and they have been reliable, helpful and cheap!

http://www.ipowerweb.com/

JT

[XFordGuy]

Not cheap, but reputable and great service:
register.com

A bit cheaper, but still reputable:
hostway.com

[Veritech]

I have a site with www.site5.com and one hosted off my broadband connection.

Site5 is fairly cheap and seems pretty good so far.

-don

[WA 2 FST]

I use NetLink. Reasonbly priced, and they have their own webpage builder interface which allows a dummy like me to create and edit my pages with ease.

If you don't have a domain, you have to get one (and you can get it through them).

www.wa2fst.com

[Paul]

Thanks for the advice. I signed up with Hostgator. Seems like decent value for disk space and bandwidth. Plus they have a load of features including a Forum builder. Can you say lots of sleepless nights in front of the computer?

[Tom Fuscaldo]

Originally Posted by Paul

Thanks for the advice. I signed up with Hostgator. Seems like decent value for disk space and bandwidth. Plus they have a load of features including a Forum builder. Can you say lots of sleepless nights in front of the computer?

Hey Paul, What are you up to, Business site of Personal site with lots of pictures of those two great Cars....

I've had a site for years and never really got around to really playing with it. Wish I had more time to set it up...

www.fuscaldo.com

[PerforminNorman]

I had too much trouble in the past so I set up a home based server.

[Paul]

Tom, it's both, personal and a little business. Once it's complete, I'll post the link.

Norman, how much work/cost did that involve?

[gresch]

www.lunarpages.com

i host 2 sites with them, and have 3 other friends hosting ~ 12 sites with them in total.