Ask HN: What web hosting do you use? I'm considering getting hosting for something like a blog, so I'm wondering: what do you use? I want to pay in GBP, but it doesn't really matter. Edit: I won't be able to reap the comments till tomorrow; that is, the 10th of February, 2010. |
At that point, I looked around for another host. I was impressed with MediaTemple's managed VPS offerings, as they had 3 levels of 'scaling' (for $50/100/150). Over the past 8 months, I've had major IO issues. Oddly, my IO issues have little correlation with my traffic patterns, so I suspect that I'm on a heavily loaded server - though they state that they see nothing but normal disk/CPU/etc utilization. That may be true, but I'm moving on.
In the end, I decided that Linode offers a level of granularity that was not matched by MediaTemple. At Linode, they expect that you may well want to separate your production server from your MySQL server from your dev server, and their backend is built with multi-server management in mind. I've set up separate MySQL and PHP servers so far, and things have been going very well. This will allow me to scale each in proportion to its needs, instead of having to scale a monolithic server instance.
For just a blog, do you want to mess around with the shell? If so, Linode or similar (SliceHost?) might be good for you. They start off small ($20/month for the cheapest), and they allow you to upgrade in small chunks.
If you don't want to deal with shell, I find HostGator to be quite reasonable, and they are extremely cheap. I still host a bunch of personal sites with them.
Their $75/mo single-core DediKiddies seemed less desirable to me than an arbitrarily resizable VPS with 4 virtual cores (which MT and Linode have).
Also, it's too late for me to edit my original comment, but HostGator did not have VPS when I left them.
I've commented about Hostgator's great service a few times now, I don't want to sound like a shill. I have no affiliation with them but I have been very, very, happy with their service and support.
They are cheap (around $22 for 1.5 GB hosting / year). You have got unlimited Mysql DataBases, Very large bandwidth and an always (almost) online customer service (it's the owner, he'll reply to your questions even if it's not hosting related).
Overall experience: Positive. I'm running 4 websites (on 4 domains). 3 blogs, 1 personal website and a bunch of auto-scripts that runs via Cron Jobs. I get around 250 hits daily.
+ I got around 1,100 hit from Stumble Upon (i got a fav from a popular member) and the host seemed to be fine with that traffic.
Currently, I'm keeping with them, for scaling, the admin told me that they can move me from shared to private server in no down time.
My advice will be: Go for it! You can also Google for reviews about it.
$ traceroute lacehost.com
traceroute to lacehost.com (67.225.243.15), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
...
16 209.59.157.44 (209.59.157.44) 43.978 ms 46.390 ms 43.979 ms
17 lw-dc2-sec2-dist4-po1.rtr.liquidweb.com (209.59.157.234) 45.439 ms 46.016 ms 50.775 ms
18 dc2-vps1-302.liquidweb.com (67.225.247.217) 43.915 ms 49.835 ms 46.735 ms
Thank you, Ishan
Sometimes when the shared server is getting pounded, remote-ssh development can be a little laggy but if you are running Wordpress (which is in CPanel as a turnkey installation), you should be fine.
There are probably other hosts out there, but as far as service and price its been working for me so far. I even put clients on it (before moving the others to rackspace).
The service has always been great, I didn't have any problem installing Passenger and the VPS is still going strong!
I don't want to come across like s shill for them (I have no affiliation) but I can't overstate how happy I've been with their level of service and support in general!
I think he's doing that to mislead websites that track hosts uptime, like that his main site never run down.