Devilwillcry4you
Active member
Like some others I have a small reseller at hostgator. Never had a problem so very happy there.
I was with Vidahost for a number of years their support is excellent, I had their cloud offering but ultimately started to experience limitations with that and switched away. I now use them for domains.
I was one of the first people beta testing the cloud offering way back and eventually decided to move my forum across, all was well for a while but then I began to notice that things slowed down. Pages began to take longer to load and I could see no benefit of their cloud over their existing more established shared host package. It's not like it was bad, overall they're excellent hosts, Dom and Seb were fantastic with helping me out but the cloud isn't all it's cracked up to be.Would be interested to know what limitations??Not noticed anything obvious, but would be good for a heads up before i stumble across it
Cheers
Paul
CPU usage isn't depending on visitors, at least not what my host told me when I got that warning (pretty much knew what caused, but I had no way of disabling it, cause they even locked me out of CPanel). If you have more details, I would be interested to hear it. I only intend on running XF, and a few mods, so nothing major.I am on HostGator right now, but they are worthless when your forum picks of speed (at this means having few tens of posts a day). Got a 300 visits/day forum suspended since it used too much CPU and a blog with 100 visits/day. Let's say their services are going seriously downhill as they think they're too big to fail.
I planned on going for their business class hosting, though not a VPS, and not their "personal" plans, as those really don't suite my needs.HostGator has a lot of different plans. You can't just say "HostGator is worthless" unless you've used all of them.
In general, if you cheap out and try to host anything on a $2 or $3 account, you shouldn't be surprised that it's worthless. It has no worth because you are paying no money. That's how the world works. And that's definitely how hosting works.
Anyone who can say anything about HostGator or BlueHost? Thinking of switching to either one of those from Inmotion. Been with Inmotion for years without any major complains, but I feel my latest site have had more downtime than necessary. I also read a post here about inmotion not being too happy with XF, so I think I will switch before I notice their policy....
Not at all a fail. I have used them for over 2 years now and I have cron jobs that run constantly, have 20 domains that I use personally at this time on this server as well as host quite a few peoples sites and xenforo forums all with no noticeable downfall....this all while and including the persistent script kiddies who think they are actually doing something by running a malicious method of anothers....and with all that I can't see much of a difference from when I first deployed the server and setup the first domain.I am on HostGator right now, but they are worthless when your forum picks of speed (at this means having few tens of posts a day). Got a 300 visits/day forum suspended since it used too much CPU and a blog with 100 visits/day. Let's say their services are going seriously downhill as they think they're too big to fail.
HostGator has a lot of different plans. You can't just say "HostGator is worthless" unless you've used all of them.
In general, if you cheap out and try to host anything on a $2 or $3 account, you shouldn't be surprised that it's worthless. It has no worth because you are paying no money. That's how the world works. And that's definitely how hosting works.
Go right ahead and get a hostgator vps, they run just fine....just pick the level you need.
Not at all a fail. I have used them for over 2 years now and I have cron jobs that run constantly, have 20 domains that I use personally at this time on this server as well as host quite a few peoples sites and xenforo forums all with no noticeable downfall....this all while and including the persistent script kiddies who think they are actually doing something by running a malicious method of anothers....and with all that I can't see much of a difference from when I first deployed the server and setup the first domain.
I have to agree with you here. If you host your site for 2 or 3 dollars a month , don't expect much. The desktop I am sitting at currently costs 2 or 3 dollars a week at least just for the electricity to run it.
Go right ahead and get a hostgator vps, they run just fine....just pick the level you need.
yes I started with them from an offer from se7ensins.com back in the day with hosting for a penny. At the time se7ensins did a promotion with host gator offering their service to the members. I would not be here if it was not for se7ensins.com and hostgator.com and I have not had a problem that was their fault since then. Either way...that is where I started before I moved up in server specs. It suited just for a while just fine when I just started learning, but I needed more control and resources as time went on and I and my server needs moved up.I am not looking for VPS, that is a bit out of budget for me ATM, and it is a bit overkill for me as well. I don't think my site can justify the cost of a VPS. You have any experience with their shared service?
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