Thread: Registar and Hosting

Personally I use HostGator atm. Dreamhost are good, too.

I prefer namecheap, they aren't as over the top as GoDaddy in trying to sell you every additional service.

Host Gator, Hosting Zoom, Netsonic.net are three good hosting companies that I have used for at least 5 years and have a decent starter package which is all you will need for now. Netsonic has very reasonable dedicated servers once you get to needing that kind of horsepower.

Hostgator for hosting. (Had a 1st month for $.01 sale going)

GoDaddy for the .com (look for coupons)

@Inphinity: could you please explain why? Do they seem to have good uptime? are they on the cheap? Why did you select?
Thanks for replying as well (to everyone)

I vote for:

Namecheap for domain registrar. I personally haven't experienced it, but others have complained that if you want to transfer your domain name out of GoDaddy, the process is harder, among other customer service complaints.

Hostgator for hosting. I've used it for the past 3 years, and no complaints whatsoever.

Originally Posted by jrws

@Inphinity: could you please explain why? Do they seem to have good uptime? are they on the cheap? Why did you select?
Thanks for replying as well (to everyone)

My experience with them over the last few years has been good value plans, good uptime, good performance, good response times from customer service, good higher-end hosting options, and smooth transition between plans / hosting types.

I've used other hosts that are better at some of these areas, and fail miserably at others. HostGator have been the best balance I've found thus far.

Something I read and have kept as a rule is "don't host at your domain registrar." These are two separate services that should be filled by two separate vendors. If you ever have a dispute with the host/registrar they're holding on to your entire operation and you have no recourse.

Personally I use GoDaddy for domain name registration (I guess I'm willing to wear out my mouse clicking on "no thanks"). For hosting I use HostGator for my smaller sites, and for larger sites or those that require more technical tweaking, I use a VPS solution at Viviotech.

namecheap or godaddy.

hosting, hostgator works. I can't really fault anything said above honestly.

I've earned my money exclusively online for six years and there are only TWO companies that I can say haven't let me down.

NameCheap for domains (Free private registration is essential for me, plus Godaddy will disable your domain if they receive spam complaints or if they just feel like it)

Hostgator for hosting, I go VPS for my main biz and shared for all of my anonymous aff websites.

Here's my experience with a few of the biggest ones when they've come to screw up royally.

The Planet: Building caught fire and had nothing for over two days... (Softlayer is doing better though...)
Dreamhost: They sold off a serverblock and quite a few of us were left with two days of down time.
Siteground: Garbage with a capital G.
GoDaddy: Terrible on all counts with hosting. Domain names are priced fairly, but privacy prices are high and they'll seize your domain if a desk jockey is feeling intrepid: John Chow will testify to this first hand.

Interesting story about GoDaddy. Back in 2005-06 I had a Wild West Domains reseller account that was bringing in around 600 a month and it was time for annual renewal. Well, I changed my card and they never even sent me an email saying "it's time to renew" (Renewal was only 299). I didn't even know it was time to renew or I would of easily done so. Anywho I found out since I was my own customer when they sent all of my customers emails saying "you can access your hosting accounts here now... domainspricedright.com yada yada".

Just like that they took 7K out of my pocket and when I called and complained they just kept referring to the terms of service.

I made FAR more money setting up my own reseller accounts (for $20 a month) after that and just charging $100 a year. It only took two customers to break even and I ended up making around 2K a month passively. So thanks for teaching me that lesson GoDaddy.