Well, as of right now I am using siteground shared hosting, and have found it to be excellent for the money. Their tech support is fast and knowledgeable,and respectful (I don't expect people to KMA, however, the Godaddy people for example have proven themselves to be incompetent AND disrespectful) their interface is clear and usable, and everything has worked great so far, I feel that they provide a lot of value for the money. I am surprised to not see them mentioned here, they HAVE won a couple of awards, and are the best I have seen since 2003. Disclaimer: I mostly used Godaddy before them (yuck!) yet I have had to use a couple of others for clients, and they were all - invariably - not that great at ALL. Now, if anyone has had a bad experience with them, I would certainly like to know, as I am considering reselling for them as part of a "includes great hosting" feature in a comprehensive service package for future clients of mine.
Ask YC: What web hosting service do you use?
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#52Media Temple. They are great for the price.
I'm going to have to agree with the MT route.
I joined up recently, and they're fantastic. Handle spike traffic well too :)
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#53RapidVPS? I use them to host a few small sites on the cheap (starting at like $9 a month I believe). It probably wouldn't scale, but it's irreplacable for development.
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#54Been using JaguarPC (jaguarpc.com) shared hosting account since the past 5 months. The support is good. And they have these tech support guys who could actually can understand my noob language(and showed me around the settings) when i tried to play around with my account.
One of my friends from US told me that slicehost is good and i see a lot of fan comments above.
I have also been using Google AppEngine since a week. Its blazing fast. But they currently have only free accounts and have mentioned on their blog that they will start a paid cloud hosting service soon for those who reach their free hosting limits. Yahoo! too have announced that they will soon offer cloud hosting. So if u you wait for a couple months you might get to choose between EC2 and Google and Yahoo and slicehost and others. Because if you are using php, i have a wild guess that Yahoo's hosting will be php inclined(most of their services are php-inclined). If u are comfortable with python, go for Google AppEngine.
Also a word of CAUTION: if you are going to choose shared hosting packages, then always read terms of service agreement and whatever agreements they have. I once used a one month trial coupon with Hostgator and stumbled upon their T.O.S. It was clearly mentioned that they allow only '50000 inodes' on shared hosting accounts, which in simpler words translates that you can have a max of 50000 files. So if you are going to host something like a social networking site, beware! Your users might get to the max files limit if u are going to have a feature like photo uploading.
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#55Media Temple. They are great for the price.
I'm on a (dv) extreme. very powerful box, excellent service.
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#56Slicehost. Love them.
Same, but I wish they had a 'green' option. I'd gladly pay a bit more if I could get renewable power powering my site.
http://www.co2stats.com
Automatically purchases renewable energy to offset CO2 emissions due to your clients, network, and servers, independently of your hosting provider, so you can use it with Slicehost.
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#57Slicehost. Love them.
Same, but I wish they had a 'green' option. I'd gladly pay a bit more if I could get renewable power powering my site.
I largely agree with the other replier about most green options. I suspect that if you want to do that, the easiest thing to do is make sure you don't use more computing resources than you have to, and the second is to host it yourself and power it yourself (that can be very impractical).
There are places that are trying to offer green options, that aren't that slimy -- I have met the follow that runs http://burlyhouse.net/, and his operation is nice. His prices are high, but I think most of his customers are people who also hire BurlyHouse for programming or other services.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same, but I wish they had a 'green' option. I'd gladly pay a bit more if I could get renewable power powering my site.
In all seriousness, that's retarded. If you honestly want to be "green" you can make changes to your personal behaviour (such as using CFLs, recycled packaging etc.) and not rely on some company to hold your hand and make you feel like you're making a difference for a little extra cash. I personally tend to lose respect for companies that try to upsell their "green" options, much in the same way I am dubious of exten…
"In all seriousness, that's retarded."
In all seriousness, that's retarded.
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#59We use The Planet ( http://www.theplanet.com ) along with EC2 from AWS. I've used The Planet for about 7 years now, for both business and personal use. Good prices, decent support and a top notch network.
Did the explosion change your opinion of theplanet?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same, but I wish they had a 'green' option. I'd gladly pay a bit more if I could get renewable power powering my site.
In all seriousness, that's retarded. If you honestly want to be "green" you can make changes to your personal behaviour (such as using CFLs, recycled packaging etc.) and not rely on some company to hold your hand and make you feel like you're making a difference for a little extra cash. I personally tend to lose respect for companies that try to upsell their "green" options, much in the same way I am dubious of exten…
He probably wants a "green" option so he can advertise it on the site itself -- that will make it popular with the hipster crowd, the kind who has the Facebook widget "My Profile is Carbon Neutral" (ignoring the obvious fact that the greenest Facebook profile is no profile at all)