Guys, I don't understand much about the web hosting so please give me advice I want to find a good Joomla hosting provider: SiteGround and CloudAccess are which I was recommended. I have a look at both of them and I'm really surprised about the price of them. SiteGround is about 7$/mo and CloudAccess is 19.95/mo, nearly triple. I checked all the features they provided, SiteGround seems better: SiteGround: Unlimited bandwidth - CloudAccess: 2TB Bandwidth SiteGround: Unlimited Web Space - CloudAccess: 20GB Disk Space And SiteGround provides more Joomla templates, Joomla extension as well as Joomla tutorials for customers. I am wondering why they have too different price like that. Have you ever tried these hosting provider? Please tell me which is better And will they build the basic environment for your site (such as Joomla installation)?
First things first, there is no such thing as unlimited disk space or bandwidth, and such offers should generally be avoided at all cost. It's a horrible marketing scam. Your resources are going to be limited somewhere. Secondly, you can host a Joomla site on any hosting. There is nothing unique to Joomla to where you have to have a host that specializes in Joomla. It will install and work just fine on any host. Of course, it looks like these guys will install templates, extensions, etc., if you ask them to, where most hosts will not.
Thanks for your prompt reply. So unlimited disk space or bandwidth is wrong information, right? Do you think they will limit the loading speed? In my case, between SiteGround and CloudAccess, which hosting service is better? Have you tried both company, WSWD? Sorry I don't know your name. It's me. Tam
Hi Tam, I'm Bryan. I haven't tried either company. I'm a host myself. I have no need to try them. Just trying to provide you some information to help you with your decision. You have to look at it this way: Yes, a company can keep adding hard drives to a server when the space gets used, but if you keep using that space, do you really think they're going to keep adding hard drives for you (enterprise SAS hard drives aren't cheap), when you are paying $7/mo.? Unlimited is a sad marketing scam. If they have a trial or moneyback guarantee, you could always try both at the same time and see which works better for you. It's just a guess, since I haven't used either, but from what I can see, you are going to get a better-quality product from CloudAccess. Then again, they also cost 3 times as much.
Yup, I got it. CloudAccess has 30 day trial option, I will try it. Because I have just a small site so the budget is very important to me Thank you Bryan. Any more experience, anybody else? All your feedback will be appreciated