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<div class="bbWrapper">I currently use Hostmonster, and they&#039;ve pissed me off one last time. <br /> <br /> There have been other issues, but the most annoying is that they lock you in to a 3 year contract without really telling you, and then at the end of the three years, they raise the price you pay by 2-3 times, also without telling you. <br /> <br /> I&#039;m looking for a host for my wordpress-based company website. It needs to be:<br /> <br /> Reasonably priced ($50/month or less)<br /> Support Wordpress<br /> fast (hostmonster on shared hosting was SLOW - based on what Google says)<br /> customer-oriented - having straightforward pricing that they don&#039;t lie about would be a good start.<br /> etc.</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">Blue Host</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">Forget all those hosts...<br /> <br /> I use <a href="http://x10hosting.com" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">http://x10hosting.com</a> <br /> <br /> Have used them since I was in freshman year HS...thats 9-10 years ago!<br /> <br /> 3.95$ a month <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-smile2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> unlimited everything...just check it out, its not some BS hosting company.<br /> <br /> They even give you free backups, set very little limits, can but domains with them, can get your registrant/whois data hidden for free. Support is always there within 24 hours you&#039;ll get help, (last time I had an issue with one of my sites, even though its not their job- they fixed it!- FOR FREE....<br /> <br /> I do not own the company, I get nothing by promoting them- but I can&#039;t say anything wrong about them... <br /> <br /> They support *everything* literally.<br /> <br /> Give them a try. And tell me you love um.<br /> <br /> <br /> Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper"><a href="http://websynthesis.com" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">http://websynthesis.com</a></div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">I run xx,xxx clicks a day or more, spend $x,xxx/day in traffic on average<br /> and a LiquidWeb VPS saved my life many times over<br /> <br /> Pros: Epic 24/7 telephone support, easy use, can get almost any configuration, no b.s charges<br /> Con: $79/mo <br /> <br /> Well worth it to me<br /> <br /> I was with Beyondhosting but it really went down the drain after a while<br /> <br /> And remember to use a CDN (my fav is <a href="http://www.cloudflare.com" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">www.cloudflare.com</a>) with everything <br /> <br /> Hope that helps</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper"><a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/members/33844/" class="username" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" data-user-id="33844" data-username="@Jon L">@Jon L</a> long time no see! <br /> <br /> Another BlueHost user here. Great experience with them.</div>
 
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<div class="bbWrapper">The more I use digital ocean the more and more I like it. I don&#039;t run nearly the traffic some of you do, but its a breeze to start deploying code to in just a few minutes. Super easy to spin up a new server or updgrade as well.</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">Read up here, lots of good ones <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2424725,00.asp" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2424725,00.asp</a></div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">I use Vidahost. <br /> <br /> They have the best customer service of any company I have ever used ever. <br /> <br /> If ever you have a question the support team get back to you in under 30 mins and do everything for you instead of telling you how to fix things etc.<br /> <br /> --<br /> <br /> On a side note its crazy what good CS does for word of mouth marketing.</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">AWS EC2 + Route 53 + Cloudfront + S3 = :joyful:</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">Rosehosting has been awesome with their support. However note that I use their managed virtual private servers, haven&#039;t used the shared hosting but I don&#039;t seem to think why it should be worse.<br /> <br /> Here is a link with my affiliate link: <a href="https://secure.rosehosting.com/clientarea/?affid=358" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">Rosehosting.com</a><br /> Here is a link without my affiliate link: <a href="http://rosehosting.com" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">rosehosting.com</a><br /> <br /> Also about some recommendations about other hosts mentioned in this thread: Stablehost was pretty decent when I used it. Tiny experience with small orange, was good as well.</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 10911" data-quote="Gsuz" data-source="post: 515317" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=515317" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-515317">Gsuz said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> AWS EC2 + Route 53 + Cloudfront + S3 = :joyful: </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>yeah i&#039;ve been thinking about aws. I don&#039;t know much about sysadmin - and especially about security. whats your experience with this?</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">First and foremost: Stay away from any <b>EIG </b>company. <br /> <br /> I&#039;ve moved a couple of wordpress sites to siteground and couldn&#039;t be happier<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.siteground.com/recommended?referrer_id=7290263" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.siteground.com/recommended?referrer_id=7290263</a></div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">I used HostGator for my website, didn&#039;t have any issues with them.</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">i&#039;ve used dreamhost and wpengine.<br /> <br /> dreamhost is sufficient.<br /> <br /> wpengine is full featured and they handle a lot, but cost more.<br /> <br /> Both are good</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 10911" data-quote="Gsuz" data-source="post: 515317" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=515317" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-515317">Gsuz said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> AWS EC2 + Route 53 + Cloudfront + S3 = :joyful: </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>I&#039;m interested in knowing more about AWS and other cloud hosting as well (such as Google&#039;s less expensive and simpler cloud). I currently use Inmotion, which has been amazing and super fast, but not cost effective for the level of traffic we currently have.</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">I see many people recommending shared hosting or managed hosting.<br /> In the interest of keeping your monthly cost low, you could opt for unmanaged hosting and do this yourself.<br /> <br /> What you would be hosting from is called a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">VPS</a> (Virtual Private Server).<br /> You can get one at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Digital Ocean</a> for $5 a month. It&#039;s cheap for what&#039;s essentially your own little computer.<br /> Unless you run a really successful website, this plan will suffice. (You can run up to 200 concurrent visitors and still have load times under 2 seconds). If you&#039;ve got more visitors, well, pick a more expensive plan <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-shortname=";)" /><br /> Do check for coupon codes, most of the time you&#039;ll get 10 dollars for free so you can try their service.<br /> (You can only add a coupon after providing payment info)<br /> If you still have acces to an educational emailadres, get the <a href="https://education.github.com/pack" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Github Pack</a>, a 50 dollar coupon for Digital Ocean is included.<br /> (I also love <a href="http://www.ramnode.com" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Ramrode</a>, but DigitalOcean is a bit more user friendly)<br /> <br /> Now comes the great part. Not kidding, it really is great.<br /> <br /> You get this VPS. See it as a computer. It has Linux on it, Ubuntu 14 to be exact.<br /> Now, instead of you going through a long and complicated proces of installing all the applications necessary to make this into a web server, you just type in 2 lines of code. That&#039;s it.<br /> You do it with a script called <a href="https://easyengine.io" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">EasyEngine</a>. Go to the site, it has all the info you need in the FAQ and DOCS.<br /> <br /> Oh and the great part?<br /> <br /> It installs Wordpress on your server and configures your server for speed.<br /> Like, crazy fast speed. They&#039;ve done all the research, they know what works.<br /> You get a super fast Wordpress website hosted, for only $5 per month.<br /> <br /> In their latest update they also added <a href="https://easyengine.io/blog/new-release-http2-letsencrypt-support/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">SSL support</a> by <a href="https://letsencrypt.org" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">LetsEncrypt</a>.<br /> So you get an https website for free. With just one line of code.<br /> <br /> As you might have noticed, I love this.<br /> <br /> Now, I wouldn&#039;t recommend this to a non technical person who has never heard of Linux, doesn&#039;t understand what a server is or screams at the sight of a computer.<br /> But since you&#039;re looking for a different hosting provider yourself, I&#039;m guessing you&#039;re capable enough.<br /> Even if you&#039;ve never done anything like this, it&#039;s worth it if you don&#039;t mind learning a little.<br /> <br /> If there is any interest, I could type out a little start to finish guide, but really, there&#039;s not much to it.<br /> <br /> TL;DR: <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">DigitalOcean VPS</a> with <a href="https://easyengine.io" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">EasyEngine</a></div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">for fast wordpress, this is the best: <a href="https://wpengine.com/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">https://wpengine.com/</a></div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">I have a wordpress site and use freshsites.co.uk. Have always found them very responsive if I have a issue with the website.<br /> Would recommend</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 30541" data-quote="_Will_" data-source="post: 515436" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=515436" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-515436">_Will_ said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> First and foremost: Stay away from any <b>EIG </b>company.<br /> <br /> I&#039;ve moved a couple of wordpress sites to siteground and couldn&#039;t be happier<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.siteground.com/recommended?referrer_id=7290263" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.siteground.com/recommended?referrer_id=7290263</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> I use SiteGround too and they are excellent.</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 23644" data-quote="Iwokeup" data-source="post: 515166" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=515166" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-515166">Iwokeup said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Blue Host </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Forget what I said about bluehost. Horrible support, hold times, misleading offers and truly hidden bombs that will destroy your email.<br /> <br /> AWESOME.<br /> <br /> Think that I&#039;m going to switch</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 23644" data-quote="Iwokeup" data-source="post: 515166" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=515166" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-515166">Iwokeup said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> Blue Host </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Forget what I said about bluehost. Horrible support, hold times, misleading offers and truly hidden bombs that will destroy your email.<br /> <br /> AWESOME.<br /> <br /> Think that I&#039;m going to switch</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">Nothing better than Liquidweb. I dont want to chat with hosting support or wait forever when there are issues.<br /> <br /> Pros<br /> <br /> - can get a native english speaking support rep on the phone in under 60 seconds<br /> - everything is in house so they can always go and reboot the server in person...no outsourcing<br /> - they will even install and troubleshoot 3rd party scripts for you if asked<br /> <br /> Cons<br /> <br /> - price - looking at minimum $70-80 per month for anything decent, however what is your TIME and aggravation worth?<br /> <br /> An average dinner for 2 where I am is at least $100-150 and I cant spend 50-75% of that to run my business?</div>
 
<div class="bbWrapper">I recently came to a need of using a web hosting service to host my &quot;Under maintenance&quot; site, since I messed up everything when I tried to migrate a successfully running site from local WAMP to shared linux server with cPanel hosting interface.<br /> <br /> So I surfed through all the web pages I could find in the time, and I finally decided to go for DigitalOcean. I&#039;ve got many advantages over the previous one. So I just migrated the live site into that virtual server instead of just hosting &quot;under maintenance&quot; site there.<br /> <br /> Advantages I have now:<br /> 1. Server located much closer to my location (DO offers Singapore, while the other&#039;s closest one was in Netherlands) - ping time has come down to &lt;28.5% of the previous one.<br /> <a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/attachments/upload_2016-2-27_21-4-29-webp.11687/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/data/attachments/8/8317-9df0767df290642e502a0b63ed417d41.jpg?hash=PV2hLFvmFb" class="bbImage " style="" alt="upload_2016-2-27_21-4-29.webp" title="upload_2016-2-27_21-4-29.webp" width="396" height="200" loading="lazy" /></a><br /> <br /> 2. Free space has come up from 7 GB to 20 (let&#039;s say only 17 usable space).<br /> 3. Complete SSD: Super fast - server takes less than 10 seconds to reboot!<br /> 4. Previous host had a longer Server Response Time, which Google PageSpeed insights was always complaining about.<br /> ... and many more.<br /> <br /> Of course, there are many things that you won&#039;t get on a VPS, which you would on a cPanel-based web hosting service. Such as e-mail boxes, few-click script installations, graphical UI for hosting management etc. In my case, none of these mattered, because I use Zoho for e-mail and was comfortable with configuring apache, mysql and php on Ubuntu server.<br /> <br /> I&#039;m most likely to continue using digitalocean VPS service(free dedicated IP address) for $60, rather than renewing the shared hosting plan, which costs about ~$32($12/yr more for dedicated IP address, and $24/year more for SSH access). If you have a flair of &quot;getting along with any technology&quot;, I strongly believe this is worth in every way.<br /> <br /> If you cannot do it yourself, I personally believe that paying someone on fiverr or somewhere like that would be worth it. I didn&#039;t need to use cPanel after setting everything up and before the migration to VPS.</div>
 

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