Comments on: Web hosting help

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:34:33 +0000

I have used Dreamhost for years and have been happy with them. I’ve recently read some flames against them, but I have not experienced the problems that those folks complain about. I had a outage last spring with one of my six sites — the other five were fine. It did take them most of one day to fix it, but they were very responsive about the whole thing.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:05:03 +0000

Thanks for all the tips. I had been leaning toward lunarpages, but I like what I’m hearing about bluehost.

Andrew – So here’s the deal (!) – I think CacheFly is more of a podcasting/video sort of speeder-upper thingie, not so much conventional web hosting.

That’s a technical term, btw – speeder-upper.

For the record, this site is hosted at Web66, and I’ve had little to no problems, especially since a little server switch awhile back, but I really have no idea what it costs. I think I’m sharing bandwidth with my mom. Seriously.

Now to fix the comment styling so you can read the comments…

By: Paul Conley

Paul Conley — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:29:31 +0000

I have one of my sites, as well as some of my clients’ sites, on Bluehost. They’ve been fantastic.
I also have an account with Jatol. They’ve been pretty good to me. But once I tried Bluehost, I was hooked.
Bluehost is crazy cheap. It’s as easy as can be to use. Most every open-source CMS and blogging tool you could want is available in turn-key fashion.

By: Andrew Venegas

Andrew Venegas — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:59:18 +0000

I’ve got some friends that use GoDaddy and CacheFly; they’re pretty happy with it and it’s pretty cheap. Plus, there’s a lot of deals on it, ie. Diggnation. Anyways, happy webspace hunting!

By: Will

Will — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:05:13 +0000

I’ve used 1and1 for two+ years and I dig it. When I signed up 1and1 was amazingly cheap (I still think it is but haven’t shopped around recently) without having to sign a 3248934897238972348973 year contract like you do with some other very popular providers ::cough GoDaddy:: to get the advertised price. And I haven’t heard anything about them holding domains hostage ::cough GoDaddy::.

I’ve heard good things about MediaTemple too, I suppose it just depends how much bandwidth and bells and whistles they need.