I've worked with a few different host providers in the course of my work. We have clients on CrystalTech, GoDaddy, HostMonster/BlueHost, HostMySite, and probably some others.
I've had my own hosting at DreamHost for years now and I love them. They have their own homegrown control panel and one click installer, but they work great and have lots of options. Also, they don't seem to include apps that are crappy but popular. Most of the ones I've used that they have are all top notch examples of their genre. They communicate constantly via blog and RSS fees. Some people will say "they have so many problems!" but I think the majority of this comes from the fact that they do communicate so much. I will say that they had two moderate to severe outages in the time I've had them, but when I was keeping track of the minor hiccup type things, they never seemed to last more than a couple minutes, if that. One of our big sites is having issues with HostMonster right now with mysterious CPU Exceeded/Slow MySQL queries errors, so if you're running a fairly high traffic site, I'd recommend against them. Although their support has been great, in general, but I can't recommend them if you have a good bit of traffic. I think HostMySite had good support too, if I recall. But again, I like DreamHost's system better. Anyway, just my 2cents. I'm sure there'll be a million other responses. Good luck! -TG ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Zvarík <mzva...@gmail.com> To: php-general@lists.php.net Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:03:48 +0100 Subject: [PHP] PHP webhosting - USA > Hi, > > I currently host my site by Powweb, and I am WANT to change it - can you > guys recommend me something good? > > Powweb's website looks awesome and it's the best marketing I think I had > saw! After a minute it makes you think there is NO better hosting - and > it's a LIE. > > What happened to me? > > - database connection were exceeded, I read many people had problems > with their phorums not working etc., the solution: I put a message to > the visitor that he has to wait (it was not frequent so I didn't care much) > > - my client stopped receiving orders, he called me after a week > something is wrong. I found out that Powweb changed a MySQL settings, > which nobody informed me about - they restricted a JOIN limit max to 3, > the mysql_query SQL thus did not work and orders were not storing for 7 > days! > > - the suport is HORRIBLE - they don't give you email, but they have this > ONLINE support, meaning: you wait 10-20 minutes on queue, and then they > talk to you like a robots and usually tell you something you already know. > > - now they automatically changed all my passwords so they can keep me > secure! what's cool is that I cannot change it back to what I have! Hey, > the chance of getting me hit by bus is higher than someone cracking my > 15 letter password with numbers! Thank you powweb for keeping me secure. > > Thanks for reading my story, > now, does someone know a better hosting alternative? > > Martin > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
