Website Hosting

[Deererunner]

What website hosting site do you use and how do you like it?

[Lawn Enforcer]

I use GoDaddy. It started off good, but my designer keeps having trouble uploading my site onto my computer into DreamWeaver. He said 95% of the time GoDaddy is a great and affordable site for hosting, but the other 5% of the time is a nightmare.

[Deererunner]

Thanks! I have been leaning towards using Go Daddy, I already know how I want the site to look and the lay out. Do I have to use one of their templates or do they have blanks that you can add your stuff on to?

[ajslands]

Thanks! I have been leaning towards using Go Daddy, I already know how I want the site to look and the lay out. Do I have to use one of their templates or do they have blanks that you can add your stuff on to?

Nope.

You can use front page or dream weaver and do what ever you want to make the site looking the way you want it to look..
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[Lawn Enforcer]

Nope.

You can use front page or dream weaver and do what ever you want to make the site looking the way you want it to look..
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Exactly. I started building on my own, but realized that I had no idea what to do. I hired a professional designer and it looks great and I didn't have to struggle with it for hours and hours to make it look good!

[mach1webdesign]

I would recommend dreamhost or hostgator. I've had bad experiences with godaddy and 1and1.

[JFGauvreau]

Just Host is very good for me, very reliable, and not to expansive.

[mach1webdesign]

Keep in mind that any hosting that costs less than $25 a month is "shared hosting". This means there will be several hundred other websites residing on the same server as yours. This helps keep costs down but depending on how much resources the other websites need and how much traffic they draw, it can start slowing your site down or start creating downtime. The cheaper web hosts typically pack more than 1,000 sites on a single server and offer them all "unlimited" bandwidth and disk space. This is what creates problems.

Some of the higher quality hosts that have been mentioned here keep a closer eye on their servers and don't overload the servers quite as much as the cheap guys. This results in more uptime and faster page load times when your customer loads your website. It's very hard to judge who is good and who is bad so you have to pretty much rely on word of mouth but most people don't understand this and just go with the cheapest provider.

[kirkmbrown2001]

I currently have Bravenet (http://www.bravenet.com) as my hosting service! I absolutly love it! I have my domain name and hosting through them as well. They have unlimited FTP accounts which means you can easily transfer files from your computer to you hosting service and vice versa. Very Simple to use! They also allow you to have email accounts under your domain name included in the price. I have been using them for over 5 years and they have NEVER had my site down or run out of bandwidth! They have a monthly bandwidth limit of 600 gb which you will probably come nowhere near. They watch the bandwidth levels pretty well. They allow 30 gb of disc space. The hosting costs under 10 bucks a month and the domain name is under 9 dollars a year.

To see all the features, go here: http://www.bravenet.com/global/hosting_matrix.php#backups

[THEGOLDPRO]

I use intuit and like em a lot. They call me monthly and make sure i have everything i need. They are very helpful.

[dlonestar]

I use 1and1 for one of my sites, very happy with them.

[PerfectEarth]

Check out Weebly.

EASY to use, you can buy your domain name, you can edit your site anytime you want, the templates aren't too terrible. I like being able to quickly and easily update my site and add stuff on... it's not glamourous but it's a good start to get info and pics to your potential customers. I think content is key, even if the design is simple.

[steveparrott]

I've been designing sites and working with various hosts for the past 10 years. I finally ended up with solely using Network Solutions. They're not the cheapest but they probably offer the best support, the best security, the best server management, and the best offering of free features.

The support is especially critical, I can reach a highly skilled troubleshooter 24/7, who not only identifies the problem but fixes it for me. Working with other cheap hosts has been a nightmare on the support side - long waits on support lines, incompetent support people, sometimes not even being able to reach a human. Poor support costs me many hours of wasted time. Support is especially critical if you're using a CMS system like Joomla or WordPress.

Another place where cheaper hosts fall flat is with customer support regarding billing and account management. Many horror stories to tell of customers getting overcharged, not being notified when bills come due, and difficulties in closing and transfering accounts.

[Deererunner]

Check out Weebly.

EASY to use, you can buy your domain name, you can edit your site anytime you want, the templates aren't too terrible. I like being able to quickly and easily update my site and add stuff on... it's not glamourous but it's a good start to get info and pics to your potential customers. I think content is key, even if the design is simple.

I'm creating one now with Weebly, trying it out to see how much I like having a website before I spend all of the money for one. But for the most part, I am able to do what I am looking for now but I know eventually I'll need to move to another hosting site.

[nr7pro]

It's actually been the other way around for me, and many others. GoDaddy is NOT a hosting company by any means, sure they offer hosting, but that's about it. Its cheap and its great for static pages only.

Anything running on any Content Management System will be slowwwwww, because their database connection times are terrible! ~3 seconds just to connect to the database? wow This is on they're new 4GH hosting.
Before 4GH it was even worse...

But again for static pages, including their website tonight - no problems.

I use GoDaddy. It started off good, but my designer keeps having trouble uploading my site onto my computer into DreamWeaver. He said 95% of the time GoDaddy is a great and affordable site for hosting, but the other 5% of the time is a nightmare.

[jonthepain]

i've been happy with fatcow. dreamweaver connects to it just fine. i've got over 20 sites hosted there, and a few forums, no problem. not bad for 3 bucks a month.

[HostColor]

I've seen some good hosting providers mentioned above. May I say what would work good for anyone who's not in web design and web hosting business?

I'd recommend anyone to use middle-sized web hosts that have a good business record. the reason to say "middle-sized" is that you'd might not get resolution on many issues which look to be easy to resolve if you have to deal with a large provider/ Employees there do not make decisions. They follow procedures only. last year I needed to call 10 times a Canadian domain registrar to unlock and bring up a domain name. They locked it and hijacked it only because there was a wrong zip code in the registrant's contacts. The website was down for 5 days because, despite being very big, the company just didn't have 24/7 support (a standard in this industry) and no one took responsibility to resolve issue. On top of these there were holidays in Canada. So the business gone for 5 days!

Most web hosting providers do not register with BBB so you'd just go an search by their hame is Google or any other Search engine. Hope that this helps!

[justinc]

I use newideahost.com and have been happy with them.

[topsites]

Seriously it makes no difference, I've paid as much as $100 a month and the only thing I found to be true
is that more money don't mean diddly to them, either the host wants your business or they're out fishing.
They don't give a F dude.

They all promise you the world.
But none of them, Not a ONE!
I have never once in 12 years encountered ONE host who could even attempt to perform as their web site claims.
Just for example, 99.9% uptime guarantee means your web site can only be down ONE hour for every 1,000 it is online.
Sound like an easy challenge?
Most hosts don't even come close to 99%, yet they all claim it, every last one of them does.
You'd be surprised how often your web site is down and you don't even know it.

The thing is they're all like that, you can go from one to the next until the end of time,
no matter what they promise or how much you pay, it is what it is.
Granted, some are better and some are worse.

But why make the mistake of thinking that paying more somehow results in better?
It doesn't.

One day I got tired of paying an arm and a leg for the same shitty service.
http://www.100webspace.com/web-hosting/bannerless-plan.html
It is what it is.

[topsites]

And if you want smtp (email):
http://www.100webspace.com/web-hosting/personal-plan.html

[centter]

I'm a big fan of ixwebhosting.com (http://www.ixwebhosting.com/)! I've been with them for 2 year now and even though my website has grown over the last 2 years and I have a steady increasing traffic - they can handle it. They also have a fast reply policy if you have questions, I think that is very handy from time to time.

[JimmyTheGlove]

I've used blue host http://www.bluehost.com
and also GoDaddy. I've never had any problems with Blue Host but I haven't messed with it all that much. I did have a hard time setting up my account with GoDaddy so I called up the customer service hotline and they helped me out. I wasn't put on hold or anything. Their service is stupendous.

[jonthepain]

I had big problems with bluehost so i switched to fatcow. my latest issue with fatcow (i host 24 websites with them) is that they do not support cron jobs. i am getting around this issue by using a third party cron jobber, but it's a real pita.

i host 2 sites on go daddy, but i dislike them, their support, their prices, and their ads. i'm just too lazy to move them.

[JimmyTheGlove]

I had big problems with bluehost so i switched to fatcow. my latest issue with fatcow (i host 24 websites with them) is that they do not support cron jobs. i am getting around this issue by using a third party cron jobber, but it's a real pita.

i host 2 sites on go daddy, but i dislike them, their support, their prices, and their ads. i'm just too lazy to move them.

I had never heard of Fatcow. I'll have to do some more research on them.

You honestly had a bad experience with GoDaddy's support? ;) I'm not kidding, they were excellent with me.