What is the best host? favorite provider

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danzg Reply #91, 18 years, 1 month ago

I’ve been hosting on GoDaddy, and it’s less than perfect. So after reading this thread I decided to switch to either Media Temple or Dreamhost.

But I wanted to see which had the fastest processing of PHP -- since I figured this was the most important factor.

So I ran this speed test (which I got from Free-Webhosts.com) on all three hosts.

Here is the description: (http://www.free-webhosts.com/php-hosting-comparison.php)

PHP Script Summary and Features:
This free PHP performance benchmark script is a free PHP script to calculate benchmark speeds (PHP execution times) of PHP web hosting servers. The free PHP script performs some simple mathematics and string manipulating functions repetitively (20,000 times each), and records the PHP code execution time it takes to complete the PHP functions. This benchmarking process is repeated the number of times given by the variable $iterations (in the PHP script, the default setting is 12 times [Note: I set the iteration to 100!]) using a Javascript redirect to the PHP script again, with delays of 5 seconds each. The average time for PHP code execution is given, and also the average time after removing the highest (slowest) and lowest (fastest) completion times. It features links to restart the process again at any time, or "stop" the process (it does one more calcultion).

Just for fun, I also ran it on my local machine, and on a FREE account I set up on byethost.com -- and weirdly enough, the free account was the fastest! Can someone explain this to me? Am I totally off the track? Is this not an accurate test?

I’m posting the results here, in case any one else finds them interesting. All my plans are shared Linux plans.

I would also love to see other people’s results on other hosts.

GoDaddy (totally inconsistent and not very fast!)

Lowest time: 1 ms , Highest time : 862 ms
Average of all 66 times: 184 ms
Average of middle 64 times: 176 ms

Test #1 completed in 4 ms.
Test #2 completed in 862 ms.
Test #3 completed in 191 ms.
Test #4 completed in 51 ms.
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Media Temple (’gs’ aka ’grid service’ aka shared hosting)

Lowest time: 41 ms , Highest time : 99 ms
Average of all 69 times: 44 ms
Average of middle 67 times: 43 ms

Test #1 completed in 41 ms.
Test #2 completed in 75 ms.
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Test #64 completed in 47 ms.
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Dreamhost (which I got for $30 for a YEAR by using coupon code SALES)

Lowest time: 65 ms , Highest time : 70 ms
Average of all 61 times: 67 ms
Average of middle 59 times: 67 ms

Test #1 completed in 67 ms.
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Free account on www.byethost.com:

Lowest time: 34 ms , Highest time : 111 ms
Average of all 36 times: 39 ms
Average of middle 34 times: 37 ms

Test #1 completed in 34 ms.
Test #2 completed in 34 ms.
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Here it is running on my local machine, MacBook Pro, via MAMP:

Lowest time: 31 ms , Highest time : 41 ms
Average of all 62 times: 34 ms
Average of middle 60 times: 34 ms

Test #1 completed in 33 ms.
Test #2 completed in 35 ms.
Test #3 completed in 36 ms.
Test #4 completed in 32 ms.
Test #5 completed in 34 ms.
Test #6 completed in 35 ms.
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ZAP Reply #92, 18 years, 1 month ago

Interesting. The host that we use for most of our sites (One World Hosting) did very well. Here are my results:

Test #1 completed in 31 ms.
Test #2 completed in 31 ms.
Test #3 completed in 31 ms.
Test #4 completed in 31 ms.
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Test #12 completed in 30 ms.

Lowest time: 30 ms , Highest time : 31 ms
Average of all 12 times: 31 ms
Average of middle 10 times: 31 ms

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onesmarthost Reply #93, 18 years ago

Onesmarthost.co.uk

Lowest time: 57 ms , Highest time : 60 ms
Average of all 12 times: 58 ms
Average of middle 10 times: 58 ms

Test #1 completed in 58 ms.
Test #2 completed in 60 ms.
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Test #12 completed in 59 ms.

http://www.onesmarthost.co.uk
UK MODX Hosting with love.

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goonz39 Reply #94, 17 years, 8 months ago

I’ve been using 1&1 for my non-MODx sites, and its okay. I don’t like the GUI; way too complicated. Also, I feel as though its a bit slow.

I’ve been meaning to switch for a while, and when using MODx, I needed more control from the backend. After looking through a bunch of posts in this topic, I went with MediaTemple Grid Service (gs).

It has only been about a week, but here is what I have to say so far:

Tech support (via phone) is amazing. Every time I called, no matter what, even with questions that most companies would have dismissed (saying it was a MODx issue or whatnot) they tried to help me troubleshoot.
So far, speed is not an issue, and is usually fast. If you want to see download times, I have two sites up so far and I can send URLs if you want (via pm).

BEWARE:
1. I haven’t checked with tech support about this yet, but as of yet, when you open a new domain within your account, the PHP settings default to PHP4. You can set them to PHP5 in the back-end, but I would hope you could choose which version is a default (and shouldn’t PHP5 be the default??).
EDIT ABOUT PHP4: When you make a new site, and request it to be switched to PHP5 from the backend, it adds this code to the end of the htaccess file: AddHandler php5-script .php to make it use PHP5.

2. No backups. You need to set up your own backup system using CRON and another server.

If anything goes wrong with this service, and I have to switch, I’ll try and remember to post about it.

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

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antirem Reply #95, 17 years, 7 months ago

Ive been with mosso for sometime and absolutly love them.

Its the main competitor to Media Temple but (from my own experience) more high end. You have to start at their 100 dollar package.. but you can host many sites off them.

And they have 24/7 chat support that is actually good.

*hugs mosso*

Minneapolis Web Design <-- where i work
MODx Templates <-- new project im working on

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goonz39 Reply #96, 17 years, 7 months ago

I looked at Mosso when I was searching around, but I couldn’t justify the $100 price tag. Maybe in the future...

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

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