We are currently using basic shared hosting with GoDaddy hosting for a business. We probably receive 100’s of visitors each day.
I have seen this list of web hosts but when I go through to the hosts’ web site, it either looks like an American Site or it does not look professional enough.
I have also seen FastHosts.com which looks professional.
I am considering upgrading to a Virtual Server. I could upgrade with GoDaddy. The other options I am currently looking at are FastHosts.com and EasySpace.com.
Do you have any other suggestions. The web site is being redesigned using PHP, MySQL, CSS.
You got very basic requirements… most of the host to support PHP mysql and CSS, but I think by now you might have selected your host …can you update this thread which host you selected?
Had bad experience with the following: godaddy.com (slow speed)
yahoo web hosting (email spam, slow)
ixwebhosting (no cron jobs, sendmail problems, etc.)
We may not be able to say whether they are professional by looking at them, check contacting support, also do some research before you signup read through TOS, reviews, up-time and feedback from customers.
Do you need a dedicated processing, how much you expect your bandwidth per month would be and the hosting space? calculate them and then decide whether you would need a VPS or Shared hosting. GoDaddy is a best registrar and not good in hosting.
That type of “top hosts” site usually has no real goal other than maximize income via affiliate commissions. The tops themselves are, at best, a personal opinion of the site’s owner.
Are you not satisfied with Godaddy? What is it that bothers you most?
Fasthosts is owned by 1and1 (or its parent company, I don’t really recall). In any case, there should be plenty of feedback on both (most I’ve read didn’t seem so stellar). I don’t seem to recall reading anything about Easyspace.com. They’re probably very much UK focused. Is that what you’re looking for, a UK based host?
I am considering upgrading to a Virtual Server.
Are you sure you need to do that? Your traffic levels don’t seem to suggest that shared hosting isn’t a feasible solution for you anymore.
I’ll suggest Hawkhost. I’m currently with them. There live support may not be fantastic but they have a good ticket system. Plus they run on Litespeed which is way faster than apache.
What ever webhost you consider, I would recommend doing a search at WebHostingTalk before signing up with that provider. See what kind of experiences others have had with that company.
As ldcdc said, most of those “top sites” pages are affiliate links with users trying to increase their referrals. Doesn’t necessarily mean that they are bad, but their intentions can be watered down.
Godaddy is not giving great experience to many folks. It can be seen anywhere. as per your requirements, you can go for hostgator, lunarpages or bluehost. These are all good. I will prefer hostgator. I had a great experience with it. They had given an excellent services.
TOP ten sites or TOP100 ones are used by their owners to advertise other companies.
Ratings are built by money paid each web host. That is not an indicator at all which web host is better or worse. You need to understand that and understand that you and only decide which one is good for you.
Matt, are you still looking for reliable web hosting service provider ?
100’s of visitors a day is not a big deal, shared hosting should suffice your needs but if you need more resources with complete freedom then you can certainly go with VPS or Cloud Server.
Since you will have root access to your server you can host websites based on PHP, MySQL, CSS etc…
I’ve been reasonably impressed with Hostmonster initially as well (some 2 years ago), but over time things got worse. However, it may very well have been just me ending up on a jinxed server.