Ask YC: Which hosting company do you prefer? I've been using Godaddy, and their performance is slow. Even their home page takes 3 minutes to appear when Google is at 2 seconds. (By watching his video blogs, it appears that the CEO has been putting more effort in figuring out whether the new Godaddy girl should be Eliot Spitzer's former hooker or Danica Patrick.) Does anyone have other apps hosting companies to recommend for bootstrappers? |
Generally you should probably avoid most shared hosting for business applications because you are at the mercy of bad neighbors.
You are also probably better off using your hosting budget to go for a similar priced VPS rather than a low end dedicated server (assuming lower end of budget scale.) In other words, $80 per month will get you a horrible dedicated server or a pretty good VPS.
BTW, I also use Slicehost.
I don't think anyone here recommends shared hosting.