Please help me in choosing web hosting

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Please help me in choosing web hosting

John Smith
Member since 2008 · 1 post · 0 votes

Hi everyone,
I am sorry for possible offtopic, but I need your help in find new web hosting provider as soon as possible, because my current host (bluehost . com) is kicking me off, they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB (maybe they do not like that?)

Anyway, what would be your recommendations for getting reliable web hosting? Where are you hosting your websites? Are you happy with your providers?

I am now checking hosting24 . com - offer looks very nice, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".

What do you think about it? Maybe things have changed in last 4 years? With my current provider I get only 2GB of disk space for $10 per month..
Any ideas and suggestions are much appreciated.

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Dave P.
Real Estate Consultant · Member since 2008 · 792 posts · 30 votes
17y

hostgator has been great for me.

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  • Jessica Tam
    Member since 2008 · 77 posts · 0 votes
    18y

    Could you ask Bluehost to quantify what they mean by 'a lot of server resources'? It could be you have a badly coded script running on the site, so those 200 visitors are hogging lots of processor or database time.

    On the face of it, your site doesn't sound too demanding, so I'd try to find out what the problem is before jumping to a new host.

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  • Jeff Fairchild
    Real Estate Investor · Vancouver, WA · Member since 2008 · 387 posts · 8 votes
    18y

    I dont know if it will fit for you but the one I am using is 1and1.com

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  • Bob McIntosh
    Real Estate Investor · Hoboken, NJ · Member since 2008 · 230 posts · 6 votes
    17y

    I know this post is kind of old but I use:

    totalchoicehosting.com

    They have been very solid with lots of flexible plans for the light to the heavy user.

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  • Dave P.
    Real Estate Consultant · Member since 2008 · 792 posts · 30 votes
    17y

    hostgator has been great for me.

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  • Joe Cline
    Residential Real Estate Broker · Austin, TX · Member since 2008 · 29 posts · 1 vote
    17y

    I second 1and1.com. Cheap and charming and good for most stuff you need to do. If you need shell access be prepared to pay up for that. If you have a custom site with lots of functionality or want to develop other apps for your site you might very well need shell access. You can ask your web developer about it to find out.

    all the best,
    Joe

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  • Peter Kolat
    Real Estate Coach · Sterling Heights, MI · Member since 2008 · 171 posts · 13 votes
    17y

    I'll go with hostgator. You can also look into companies like hostmonster.com or mediatemple.net.

    One thing you need to consider before transferring your domain is the following:

    What do you need to accomplish with the new hosting company?
    Cpanel? bandwith? is it windows on linux hosting? and so on...

    One thing that jumped out at me is how are you able to take up 500GB of space? When it comes to website design, unless you have a lot of video/audio/multimedia on your site, you shouldn't really be able to use up that much space.

    I think you need to look into how much bandwith they allow you to use on monthly basis. Also, what's their uptime? if it's anything below 98%-99% I wouldn't take them. It doesn't matter how good of a deal you het on your hosting if nobody can see it.

    And since you are transferring site to another hosting company, ask if they'll help you transfer the site and how it is to do it on their servers.

    hope this helps,

    Peter

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  • Sean Ilan
    Real Estate Coach · Delray Beach, FL · Member since 2008 · 9 posts · 0 votes
    17y
    Originally posted by John Smith:
    they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB


    You obviously have a script that is getting stuck and consuming too much CPU or MEMORY.

    200 users a day could never clog down a server.. not even 200 users a minute in most cases.

    I recommend Dreamhost , Godaddy and MediaTemple which I use all 3.

    Every host has it ups and downs and there is no such thing as a perfect host.

    I as sure that your blue-host-issue could have been sorted out with some effort.

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  • Bob C.
    Investor · Littleton, CO · Member since 2012 · 20 posts · 0 votes
    14y

    A few industry notes:
    Last month HostGator had a major hack - 50,000 credit cards leaked and posted online.
    Blue Host has very slow servers.
    We are using HostingDivision.com as it's SEO friendly.....

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  • Vishal Verma
    New Delhi, Delhi · Member since 2012 · 12 posts · 0 votes
    14y

    Ouch,

    Thank god Hostgator had my expired card. :)

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