Anyone found any webhosts that load sites faster than Hostgator?
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I'm not currently hosting anything with them, but I've used them in the past, and I think that they should change their name to DownTimeHost.
@greyhatdude: I haven't really found many decent shared hosting providers. There's always a problem with downtime, speed, and customer service with "budget" hosting. Personally, I would go for a VPS from a reputable company like ServInt. If that's not an option, you could try IndiaNets. As far as shared hosting goes, I've had a good experience with them and still have one site hosted there with no problems to speak of (it's been there for almost a year).
greyhatdude
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I have been very happy with Hostgator until now but I may be asking a bit much for <$5/month. It could time to pony up and move some sites off of there but I am not sure how unusually demanding my sites or plugins are and I do not have hardly any sites up at the moment. On that account I have one autoblog running on a domain that I am aging, and it is scraping research off of scientific journal articles 24/7. It scrapes/posts 6x per day and gets about 100 visitors a day. I also have a dead ecommerce store that pulls from datafeeds every 12 hours, which I'm about to shut down, and my wp/moodle site which gets maybe 20 visitors/day. Everything is locked down with several security plugins and was connected to twitter (the wp_twitter plugin no longer works with my hosting - HG apparently changed something). It would be nice to see a chart, table, or score that shows how resource-intensive wordpress plugins are. I'm also going to begin learning Joomla in a few weeks, and I'm wondering about that apps demands on webhosts.
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I'm not currently hosting anything with them, but I've used them in the past, and I think that they should change their name to DownTimeHost.
@greyhatdude: I haven't really found many decent shared hosting providers. There's always a problem with downtime, speed, and customer service with "budget" hosting. Personally, I would go for a VPS from a reputable company like ServInt. If that's not an option, you could try IndiaNets. As far as shared hosting goes, I've had a good experience with them and still have one site hosted there with no problems to speak of (it's been there for almost a year).
lol , i will stick with lunarpages then
greyhatdude
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As a follow-up... I ended up switching to HostGators "managed" VPS, told them to scrap most of my domains on that hosting account, gave them the credentials to my registrar, and they switched the DNS over for me after migrating everything. Hostgator may get negative reviews of their affiliate program all over BHW, but their customer service is outstanding. My speed and down-time issues were apparently because I was hitting up against the database size limits for shared accounts. I had a massive autoblog constantly pulling feeds from medical journals and a Moodle learning management system with hosted videos in addition to wordpress sites on that account. Adding Joomla with a premium template looks like it was enough to exceed the database-size limit of that $5/month account. BTW... I. FRICKING. LOVE. JOOMLA.
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jorgjacson
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hi, I don't think there is any hosting service faster then Hostgator?
Hi. I'm curious - are you running your autoblog and Joomla on your VPS? And are they loading faster now?
I'm in somewhat of the same situation as far as HG and site speed goes, except I don't believe my db files are massive.
hackNstuff
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what sort of ping times does hostgator give you?
btw, WP plugins can be extremely resource-intensive, as is WP itself. Add that into a few wp blogs plus shared hosting, not to mention who knows what else is sharing that server with you, and bam, pretty much guaranteed speed probs, unless you have an incredibly simple webpage.
Glad to hear things worked out for you. what's the price diff per month now for your new plan?
Glad to hear things worked out for you. what's the price diff per month now for your new plan?
greyhatdude
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I dropped the autoblog. I may resurrect it some other time, but the number of monthly searches for that keyword have pretty much died off. And the moodle/video site was redundant to another one of my sites + had <30 visitors per day so it's history, too. I'll relaunch the Joomla site sometime during the next day or two. I'm too tired/burnt out/overworked right now to play with it so I can't tell you how fast it loads yet.
greyhatdude
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Went from <$5/month to about $50/month.
hackNstuff
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Yikes, that's a bit steep, it sounds convenient for the switchover but at a longer term cost. $50 can get you a lot of VPS if you shop right...heck, you could find someone to manage a better server for you at a lower price IMO. But if it works for you, good for you.Went from <$5/month to about $50/month.
greyhatdude
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Well, the VPS is "fully managed", whatever that means. They've already recompiled mysql and php with different addons/tweaks for me, and configured all of my control panels, etc which saved me a lot of time so I've accepted the price for the moment. I rationalize it by believing that what I'm paying for is customer service. I'm having issues with using the email to create accounts with sick submitter, so I might have to get that reconfigured also. Costs really add up when you get serious about this - Software Subscriptions... VPS... Offshore Dedicated... Remote Desktops... Decaptcha... Paid Proxies...
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darkknight
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Went from <$5/month to about $50/month.
Is it worth it?
Is your site loads much faster?
greyhatdude
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I don't even fricking know yet. I purchased a premium Joomla Template and the developer has been trying to install it for days. It isn't working with HG hosting for some reason, I gave them root but it's still not working so I may not only get a refund for that, but also move from HG to Siteground's Joomla hosting service - they will install/configure everything, and I've wasted almost a week messing with HG and the Template Co. If they can't get something working before friday, I'll switch. I don't have the time or patience for this. I lose money and probably drop in the SERPS very day the site is down.