Struggling to Find a New Web Host
by Bing on Dec.11, 2008, under web
Having trouble with my two web hosts recently.
ePowHost.com: they lost my files. I don’t know whether it was a mistake, or someone hacked it or what. Searched Web and saw others had similar problem with other hosts. I wonder whether they are all resalers of the same vendor?
Anyway, ePowHost is now just playing dead: they never replied to any of my inquiries, including how to get a refund.
dot5hosting.com: the site that I host terra-bonita.com. Terribly slow and downs all the time during the summer. It is clear that they are not capable of running this business: everything was behind.
Finding a new host is not fun: I need at least 200G space, MySQL 5, DB remote access and 10 or more addon domains. It is just incredible how hard it is to find a site with all those features. A couple of candidates (awardspace.com, bluehost.com, fastdomain.com) were so close, but in the end I gave up because of others reviews, some of which painfully reminded me of what I have now.
December 31st, 2008 on 11:44 pm
Are you still looking for a web host? I wrote a post about my host company — you might want to check it out (http://www.geekmba360.com/?p=459).
January 1st, 2009 on 3:24 pm
Have you tried dream host? http://www.dreamhost.com/
It has unlimited space and bandwidth. Good for hosting blog, which doesn’t require lots of CPU power.
January 3rd, 2009 on 2:19 am
I forgot to mention in the original post that I am also planning to host my own album site on the same platform. It is a long story why I chose to host my own instead of using Picasa or Flickr.
Suffice to say, I need a site that is relatively reliable, with large space (preferrably unlimited), with the right Apache, PHP/MySQL versions.
I checked out Geek’s Pair Netwworks. It doesn’t have enough space for what I am willing to pay (under 10/m). Dreamhost is a serious contender.
Right now, I have tentatively settled on LunarPages.com. But thanks for all the input!