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I’ve just been looking for a new host for a few sites and hopefully found a good one. I always worry when moving hosts as no matter how good the reviews you never know if they will be good for you. I would never sign a customer up to a host until I had used them myself for at least a year.

The whole area of hosting is very difficult to follow, there must be thousands that come and go every month. People see it as an easy business to get into as you can buy a reseller package and be up and running within a few minutes. That doesn’t make you a good web host though.

The best tip anyone every gave me many years ago was to avoid anyone offering unlimited space or bandwidth. Nothing is unlimited and if they are selling their service as such they are usually overselling and often putting far too many accounts on their servers.

Posted in Internet by Marc on July 22, 2010


4 Comments »

  1. Its hard to pick a hosting company with so many out there. My advice would be to go with the most popular like Hostgator and Justhost. There is a reason they are on top.

    Comment by Tech Guy — July 27, 2010 @ 7:54 pm

  2. I went with Hostmonster before(child company of Bluehost), then later Hostgator which is a little more expensive per month, but they are still behind as far as what they let you do for page compression(make sites load faster). Yeah unlimited hosting is BS, but you’ll need to upgrade to a virtual hosting account anyway once you start getting good traffic.

    Comment by HDTV TVs Guru — July 28, 2010 @ 12:24 am

  3. Good tips for me people like me who wants to find a good hosting company. It can mean the difference in being able to have a web presence or not, and that should at least be considered.

    Comment by Calgary Web Design — July 30, 2010 @ 8:28 am

  4. I agree, there is no such thing as “unlimited” but that’s more of a marketing gimmick so just because a web host offers unlimited bandwidth or disk space, it doesn’t imply it’s bad. Since 2006 I have been keeping a close eye on web hosts and what I have learnt so far is that when it comes to signing up for a web host, it’s best to go with a reputed host which has been in the business for at least 5 years or so, give or take. Always avoid start up’s and don’t consider signing up with hosts that offer their services at an extremely cheap price. In my experience, three big players that always come to my mind are BlueHost, Hostgator and ASmallOrange.

    Comment by Price Guide — August 5, 2010 @ 10:26 am

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