The biggest pain of being a webmaster to me is finding a GOOD host and moving sites. This last week I went through 3 hosts. 1) DreamHost, went down about 3 times, I had to switch fast because users we're getting angry! 2) NetFirms, was not bad for first few days, then it got really slow and went down one time, sucked! had to move! 3) HostGator, was Fast, awesome host, today I check my site and everything was deleted! WTF! The mysql database was deleted, the support didn't respond for a few hours, and when they did they simply said "I dont know".... phew....wow this sucks, now Im in the process of moving site to this new host.. "Asmallorange" , I hope they are good. (Btw my site is NOT a proxy site)... so we will see how this works..wow, the pains of being a webmaster... (Can anyone recommend some good hosts?)
I heard a lot of wonderful things about A Small Orange. If ASO falls through, i'd suggest www.qoozz.com I have a 8 GB Reseller plan with them for only $12.95 a month. Their support is fabulous. I love it with www.qoozz.com Good Luck
I've been a customer of several hosting companies over the years (site5, asmallorange, pair, to name a few) and the best that I've encountered is Dotable. Their support is awesome on every level, uptime has been just as good and I've never been happier.
i've always thought dreamhost was pretty good =S www.powweb.com is reliable, hardly goes down at all for me.
Do NOT go with resellerzoom or hostingzoom. They started disabling my domains, one by one, saying I was using too many server resources. They only notified me of a few of them. The rest, I had to discover on my own. Apparently, their servers can't handle a simple Wordpress install.
I would really suggest hostgator.com quite dear but man $15 a month its like i have my own server lol
DreamHost.. the one for me. I am with them for about one year and never experienced a single downtime. OOps.. I did actually, but that was for a few minutes.
I was on liquid webs with flawless servers for about 6 years, but i out grew them and went to gator, which i have issues with once a week, but i like them most of the time.
Yeah I think everyone here has had their site(s) go down at one point in time, it definitely sucks. On the other hand, running a web business has a lot less issues than running a brick and mortar business, at least imo. Since we've been with mojohost though, we've had 100% uptime, and it's been almost 4 years now.
Hosting can be a pain, my host was just down for a few hours and I'm thinking about switching if it goes down again...