Hey Aaron, Here are a few options I've used, all of which I consider professional, best-of-class services that are still great values:
1. MediaTemple (grid service) -- Support is good and they have a very nice control panel. $20/month. 2. Linode.com -- You have to do all the work, i.e. installing a Linux distro, Apache, etc., but it can of course be whatever you want. They're the most polished VPS service I've seen (besides Amazon EC2). Starts at $19.95/month. 3. Amazon EC2 -- Amazon just announced a new "micro instance" which, like Linode, is a Linux VPS that can be configured however you want. Cost is $0.02/minute which works out to $28.80/month for an always-on machine. Bandwidth is a separate charge but is inexpensive. 4. Amazon S3 -- If your website is entirely static, you may be able to host it on Amazon S3, using their new "root object capability" which allows an index.html to be served when someone hits the domain. If this works for your site, this would probably be just a few dollars a month. I used Bluehost for a long time and was mostly happy with their incredible value (I still recommend them to people getting started), but if your website is a crucial part of your business, which sounds like the case, then I agree you may be ready for something new. Richard On Sep 17, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Aaron Luman wrote: > I know that this isn't specifically a php question, but I need to find a new > webhosting solution. I have been using bluehost on and off for the past 10 > years and have, in general, been VERY satisfied with them. That is, until > recently. I had my dad set up a new account for a website that we put > together and have consistently had problems with downtime and slow > responses. Contacting customer service regarding the issue gets absolutely > no sympathy and in fact one agent told me that I should have read the terms > of service better before signing up as a response to me asking about the > 99.9% guaranteed uptime claim on their website. > > Anyway, as you can see, I am quite frustrated with the current situation and > would like to find another hosting solution. There are multiple domain > names and three independent sites to be hosted, so it needs to be a company > that either allows for multiple domains or is cheap enough so that there > isn't a significant increase in the cost. Other than that, the only other > concern is reliability. The site needs to be up all the time as it is used > as a marketing tool. We don't need a lot of storage space and won't likely > have huge bandwidth needs any time soon. > > Who do you guys use? What suggestions do you have? > > Thanks in advance. > > Aaron > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
