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My search for the best webhost…

   Posted by: Vlad   in Web

Previously I wrote about my search for the best webhost. Finally I settled with Steadfast. I was so impressed with the litespeed web server that I installed it on my own server at work, and i do most of my testing work on it. But this was not over for me, so I searched for another webhost with more features. The quest lead me to this site: web hosting rating, where I found some objective reviews. Based on them I chose Bluehost, which gave me unlimited space, a free domain, secured POP3 and IMAP, and most importantly ssh access.  The overall speed was very good, it had plenty of features (most of them I never used), so I was generally pleased. The only thing that bothered me was a small downtime of one hour. I made this decision mostly based on the reviews on Web Hosting Rating which unlike other sites contained both positive and negative ones, which took me a few hours to read. So if you want to decide by yourself based on others’ experiences rather than someone telling you “pick that one”, this is the place to go. I read a lot of forums adn reviewing sites, and the opinions of the best webhost are very different, but this one made me think that for a few dollars I can try by myself and find something that is best suited for me. So my recommendation for you is to read as many reviews as you can and than try for yourself and make a lot of backups in case you need to move everything from one host to another.

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Yeah finding a good web host is quite difficult these days - Not because there are few but because there are just too many of them. Finding a good webhost is important because changing your webhost is a lot of additional work and may even result in loss of data. Just last month I had a very bad experience with manashosting.com . It’s been one month now after payment but I still can’t get my website up. I had problems with ftp and now the database password they gave me don’t work. So $70 down the drain for me :(.
I have just signed up with lacehost.com. I hope they give me good service.

August 21st, 2008 at 9:33 pm

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