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My search for the best webhost…
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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Steadfast’s Litespeed based shared webhosting
I recently switched my shared webhost from Hostgator and previously to that from Godaddy to Steadfast Networks. This switch was made in my search for some fast and reliable servers. I read many good reviews about them and I wanted also to test the Litespeed based webservers. I was very pleasantly impressed with this and Apache lost my vote for the moment. One of the main things that struck me was a plugin used for this blog, called Google XML Sitemaps. When you rebuild your sitemap manually it show you in one of the status lines how much time it took and how much memory it used. On Godaddy I had to raise the memory limit to 16, because it used around 10-12 MB of memory, and took about 6 seconds to complete. On Hostgator about the same, but when I copied my blog to Steadfast, besides the obvious increase in browsing speed, I saw:
“The building process took about 1.22 seconds to complete and used 1.5 MB of memory.”
That’s why from now on, after bouncing from webhost to webhost, I will remain with Steadfast until I will be disappointed with something (hopely not too soon).
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