Where on earth do I find a hosting company that is small and hosted entirely in the US?
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fly
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While I suppose its up for interpretation, they are a terrible company. And I don't sell hosting.
HotRodCarts
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100% satisfied with Todo10.
Suzanne O
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I only use their support for their things.
Their stella hosting is much better than the scammy overpriced AWS that make you pay for their traffic.
Was with siteground which is the sister company to cloudaccess.net. Both are overpriced and will ban your services on the dot if you don't have funding for what you want.
Tried themehouse's hosting not good enough.
Went back to namecheap and it was fine for me.
Forsaken
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I do not sell hosting services, and before transitioning to a more project management role I did network administration at one of the largest bandwidth providers in the US.
Almost all shared hosting providers oversell; it is stupid of them not to, as most people do not use what they pay for and people usually get an additional 20-40% on specs that they would use. Namecheap 100% oversells, and generally oversells more than most other providers. They are fine for a static site, or a small blog or a very small forum, but the minute you start getting larger they are no longer a good choice.
Also, even if he is a host... Is he selling his services here? If not, there is no conflict of interest and bias does not matter.
Suzanne O
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No they don't over sell.
They aren't expensive at all.
fly
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I think the term scam is a bit harsh. Every price associated with AWS is very clearly spelled out. That said, I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I would certainly prefer AWS to Namecheap, but to each their own!Godaddy is worse. Has no cpanel.
Have also been with AWS which scams people. Left with an $11k debt just from them being so overpriced.
Namecheap has everything that i need. I've been with them for 14 years.
fly
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They aren't expensive because they can oversell, knowing that most people will use very few resources.
mjda
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While I am a fan of WHM/cPanel too, that's not necessarily an indicator of whether, or not, a host is good. There are plenty of other fully capable control panels out there that will do everything 99% of clients need.
Forsaken
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Once again, you have no clue what you are talking about. Please, for once in your life, listen to people who have professionally worked in the industry or with what you are talking about so that they do not have to argue with you.
Overselling in this context is selling more resources than the machine(s) you have can actually support; this is done because not all users will use the resources allotted to them. This is a standard practice for shared hosting, but Namecheap/GoDaddy/every major known hosting company does this to an extent that actively harms users if they are more than a small site.
You can look it up, go on WebHostingTalk or whatever hosting resources you choose, and find that this is the case.
philmckrackon
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@Suzanne O o is one that should be ignored.
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Call it what you want, I'd term it semantics. You have a financial bias attached to the opinion. Sure, you're certainly welcome to it. Good ethics would suggest full disclosure nonetheless.
If you're comfortable with running your own server, get a droplet, install Centminmod, and go to town.
FWIW, if you start with AWS instead, you can pretty much get hosting free for a year with their Free Tier.
Disclosure: I'm an independent AWS consultant.
Forsaken
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They've been on my ignore list since the first day they started being active.
That said, people who post incorrect information that they have no clue about should be corrected so that people do not believe it.
Call it what you want, I'd term it semantics. You have a financial bias attached to the opinion. Sure, you're certainly welcome to it. Good ethics would suggest full disclosure nonetheless.
If you're comfortable with running your own server, get a droplet, install Centminmod, and go to town.
FWIW, if you start with AWS instead, you can pretty much get hosting free for a year with their Free Tier.
Disclosure: I'm an independent AWS consultant.
Again, did not advertise their services, nor did they even mention AWS. They pointed out a known problem with Namecheap, which anyone can look up themselves.
If you're going to post a gotcha, at least make sure it's a reasonable one.
philmckrackon
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Yes..
That's precisely the issue. Anyone considering his point of view has the right to be aware of potential bias. Then the reader can place merit as they see fit. It's just fair reporting.
Speaking of staking reasonable claims, here is an accusation of overselling, when the OP mentions a dedicated server, not shared hosting.
I wouldn't disagree NC may well oversell shared hosting. I have no data points to that either way, but it's a common industry issue. Therefore I wouldn't disagree with the first sentence here.
But shared hosting was not the benchmark. OP wants someone responsive and providing a good service level. I've been with them well over a decade. The OP quest has been my experience with them.
Are there other good hosts? Absolutely. I'm not the one hating other hosts or other views. I'm simply saying people deserve full disclosure when considering such applicability. Frankly, it taints my opinion of AWS if that's acceptable from a consultant.
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fly
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I actually don't as I closed my consulting business. Notice that I also wasn't even offering any service, just an opinion. You should probably get out and touch grass my friend! <3Call it what you want, I'd term it semantics. You have a financial bias attached to the opinion. Sure, you're certainly welcome to it. Good ethics would suggest full disclosure nonetheless.
If you're comfortable with running your own server, get a droplet, install Centminmod, and go to town.
FWIW, if you start with AWS instead, you can pretty much get hosting free for a year with their Free Tier.
Disclosure: I'm an independent AWS consultant.
fly
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Everyone has bias. That's how our brains make decisions.
I'm sorry it didn't work out for you. However, since you had done so in the not so distant past, it isn't a lengthy conclusion the probability still exists without being otherwise informed.
If someone is offering such services as well as opinions regarding another service while not disclosing the former, would be the very definition of conflict of interest. Not stating or offering still fits the criteria. However, you've obviously cleared it up. Of course, stating it before may have saved a lot of confusion too.
But those are just my opinions. I'm just as welcome to them as you guys.