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Re: Ask HN: What web hosting do you use?

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Post by sil3ntmac »

csomar wrote: post #6

I have around 1 year with Lace Host (lacehost.com), the website/user interface are crappy but it doesn't matter since you have Cpanel and FTP. 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'…

  $ 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
He probably just has a WHMap account setup on one of liquidweb.com's dedicated servers. That'll work fine, but hopefully he really is able to move you over to a private server without any snags.

Re: Ask HN: What web hosting do you use?

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Post by [deleted] »

alttab wrote: post #2

I've had great success and ease-of-use with Bluehost (bluehost.com) and its subsidiary Hostmonster (hostmonster.com). They are an affordable shared host that do all the domain stuff as well. Their support is great and they have the latest version of CPanel. If you wanted to make LAMP or Rails applications they have support for that as well. Overall with domain, connersc.com was $120 for two years. Sometimes when the…

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Re: Ask HN: What web hosting do you use?

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Post by carbocation »

sil3ntmac wrote: post #10
carbocation wrote: post #5

I started off with HostGator's shared service. I started going over their limits years ago (mostly CPU, IO, memory, and execution time). The execution time was a real kicker for me - they have reapers that go around looking for processes that have been running for more than 120 seconds, and kill them. So if you have a large MySQL database that you're trying to back up, good luck... At any rate, I'm not saying their p…

Hostgator shared accounts actually do have shell access, you just have to ask for it. Go into the live chat and ask a rep and they'll activate it for ya. They also have cheap dedicated servers called "unmanaged servers", they're kind of an unpublicized deal, its $75/mo for your own box, which I think has a 2.4 P4 and 1gb RAM, 5 IPs.

I do have shell access at HostGator, but when I got it there was a $5 charge (perhaps they waive that now?). I was imprecise in my wording; when I said "shell," I really was thinking "root." Certainly, if there are things you want to do for your blog using shell, HostGator is an option.

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.

Re: Ask HN: What web hosting do you use?

#15

Post by ishan »

sil3ntmac wrote: post #11
csomar wrote: post #6

I have around 1 year with Lace Host (lacehost.com), the website/user interface are crappy but it doesn't matter since you have Cpanel and FTP. 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'…

$ 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 He probably just has a WHMap account setup on one of liquidweb.com's dedicated servers.…

Hello, I am the owner or LaceHost. We host our company website offsite on a vps with Liquidweb. Our shared hosting servers, power distribution units and network switches are completely owned by us and located in our private cabinet at the Uberbandwidth datacenter in NC, USA. We also have 3 support operators and 8 technicians working round the clock. Also, we use WHMCS and not WHMAP :)

Thank you, Ishan

Re: Ask HN: What web hosting do you use?

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Post by csomar »

ishan wrote: post #15
sil3ntmac wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$ 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 He probably just has a WHMap account setup on one of liquidweb.com's dedicated servers.…

Hello, I am the owner or LaceHost. We host our company website offsite on a vps with Liquidweb. Our shared hosting servers, power distribution units and network switches are completely owned by us and located in our private cabinet at the Uberbandwidth datacenter in NC, USA. We also have 3 support operators and 8 technicians working round the clock. Also, we use WHMCS and not WHMAP :) Thank you, Ishan

So why don't you use your own server to host your site?

I think he's doing that to mislead websites that track hosts uptime, like that his main site never run down.

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