What Is The Best Web Hosting Company?

02 Mar 14 3:23 am

I have several sites with Hostgator. Been with them for seven years. I've never had much in the way of problems, and my sites are fast enough for me. Maybe there are some purists out there who can tell the difference, but I'm not one of them.

One thing I like: Their support technicians are actual nerds who know what they're talking about, rather than copy/paste robots. I can practically smell the coke and pizza when I get on live chat with them.

02 Mar 14 12:46 pm

1) I currently use HostGator, the service is ok, though I've found that the support peoples to be idiots when it's anything semi-complex =[ They break things more often than they fix things for me. Then again, all of the hosting support people of all the ones I recommend aren't great.
http://www.hostgator25.com <= They have a nifty affiliate program


I used to use HostMonster, but the didn't support PHP 5.3 when I needed it, so I left.
http://www.hostmonsterplus.com <== they also have one

I've used JustHost, they're cheap, not the most secure, and always want you to buy add-ons (that you really don't need)

GoDaddy... NEVER use them, EVER.

I would recommend them in the order I listed them, except GoDaddy who I would never ever recommend.

02 Mar 14 8:20 pm

Mark probably has his own private hosting or VPS. He used to use Hostgator shared until he tried to send massive traffic to a video, and they didn't like that. (But we're talking Mark Ling sized massive traffic.)

To be brutally honest, this isn't the biggest decision you have to make. It may seem like it, but there are a great many other decisions that will have a bigger impact on your business. For the most part, a host is a host is a host.

The problem with asking the internet is that people are usually only galvanized to offer an opinion or a review when they've had a negative experience. Nobody starts a thread on a forum to say "I'm having an acceptable experience with Hostgator!"

But for the most part... that's what will happen. You will have an acceptable experience. Nothing to write home about. Nothing to complain about either.

If you DO have a terrible experience with any host you choose, it's not such a big deal to shift to a new host. If you're worried that might happen... sign up for month-to-month hosting. I'm still on month-to-month hosting, like I was when I said "hey, let's see if this affiliate marketing thing works".

When you're just starting out, you're unlikely to have many problems. You won't be getting THAT much traffic (like millions of visitors). You won't have THAT many demands to tax the knowledge of the tech support staff. It's useful to find a host that offers reasonable support (online chat) so if you do have issues with a Wordpress installation or something, they can help you out. But that's pretty low-level stuff for their support team, I'd expect.

I'd say just pick one and get on with business. This is the kind of "analysis paralysis" roadblock you need to kill quickly. Pick one and go! And like I said before... it's honestly not the biggest decision you have to make.

If that's not helpful, here's a thread from an Affilorama member who set up an affiliate site comparing hosting providers.
website-building/best-hosting-company-t25026.html

... he might be able to offer you some advice.

02 Mar 14 9:08 pm

I just know what it's like to be paralysed with indecision, and then find out later on down the track that it really didn't matter and I was just wasting time. Hah!

There are some things that *ARE* worthy of this sort of indecision because they *WILL* affect your ability to be successful, and they *CAN'T* be easily changed later on. (Mostly, choosing the right niche to go into) -- but right when you're just starting out, choosing hosting is like choosing toothpaste. Different packaging, and everyone will have their preference... but it really all does the same thing, more or less.

Look for cPanel, live chat or phone support, under $10/month, and purchase month-to-month, and I imagine you'll be pretty much satisfied.

02 Mar 14 9:41 pm

hi aletta, why do you think purchasing month to month is better than purchasing a 1 year plan

you seem to know what you're doing so I would like to bother you again for some more info on this

02 Mar 14 11:53 pm

why do you think purchasing month to month is better than purchasing a 1 year plan

Purely because you're undecided, and this is an easy way to mitigate that anxiety. If you sign up for month-to-month you can move if they suck, so you can stop tearing your hair out now over which one to choose.

You can date the girl before marrying her, to put it another way :)

You can give it a go for a few months and see if you're satisfied, and then switch to a yearly plan if you want.

05 Mar 14 11:47 am

No, no, no, no, no...

Never use GoDaddy for hosting, for domains, perhaps...
But never for hosting.

The thing GoDaddy is best at is advertising.

26 Mar 14 6:27 am

It's really a matter of preference. Personally I prefer Hostgator. They are reliable and their customer service is better than other webhosts' I've encountered so far.

Like Aletta said

You can date the girl before marrying her, to put it another way :)

. LOL. Most webhosts offer monthly subscriptions so you can try them out for a month or two and see how it goes.

If you want to get started right away and have bought Affiloblueprint or Affilojetpack, then you can worry about the hosting later. Both courses come with free 1 year hosting. You can host the site first on Affilorama, and then move on to another webhost once you've decided which one to get. Or you can opt to stay with our hosting. Our hosting plans are renewable each year at very low prices.

Hope that helps. Have a good day!

12 Apr 14 3:01 am

No Hostorama is the best! Just kidding.

Seriously though $10-30 bucks to build a business! It's amazing to me I mean if you think about the tech going on and being able to make money from your home by selling goods and services to someone across the world, still fascinates me, or you could go build a brick-and-mortar business for I don't know $75,000+.

Pick one and when you start to get Mark Ling size traffic, just upgrade. We pay around $350+ bucks/month for our hosting and when we do better the cost will only go higher.

Get the website up! ;-)

18 Apr 14 11:08 am

Hey Amien,

Funny you should bring this up. I am currently taking a "trial separation" from my wife of seven years, after she went out and messed around on me.

There was quite a large outage for quite a lot of Hostgator customers yesterday. Some sites were down for 18 hours. Mine went down, went up, went down, and I decided not to wait for them to sort it out. Got myself a cheapo backup hosting with Namecheap to use temporarily.

I don't really blame Hostgator. I imagine they did absolutely everything they could, as fast as they could. I feel especially sorry for the poor customer support team -- I saw the torrent of abuse on their Facebook page, and I'm sure that's just the tip of the abuse iceberg. But I just figured it was good to have a backup. A $5/month insurance policy.

I WAS planning to move back once everything was stable again (you know my wife and I.... we just have so many friends in common... ) but my new hosting appears to be slightly faster than my Hostgator account (my mistress is... uhhh... a better cook?). So I might stick with it for a little while and see how it goes.

03 May 14 7:51 pm

I use 1 & 1, they have great prices and lots of things you can do with them that I am sure the others do as well but there system is very fast, you can update anything you want anytime you want.

18 Jun 14 8:40 am

The selection of the best we are hosting is dependable on various things like backups to keep your files safe, unlimited disk space, top range control panels and advanced firewall for security of the servers. So, If it is satisfied these things, then we can select them.
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