What is the best host? favorite provider

Quote from: ZAP at May 21, 2007, 04:22 AM

Well sheesh I mean one lousy tree? I planted 34 last week, and altogether they cost me like $10. It better be one heckuva nice tree...

very nice, you could also choose a hostingprovider that doesn’t plant trees....

Quote from: olafmol at May 21, 2007, 10:06 AM

Quote from: ZAP at May 21, 2007, 04:22 AM

Well sheesh I mean one lousy tree? I planted 34 last week, and altogether they cost me like $10. It better be one heckuva nice tree...

very nice, you could also choose a hostingprovider that doesn’t plant trees....

Hee hee hee. So true. I was in a bad mood last night, so please ignore my crabby tone...

OK, so instead of staying crabby I got curious, and I found out that they only offer this plan in the UK (good for you Europeans, but slow for us North Americans).
http://www.rackspace.co.uk/default.asp?docId=14515

They actually don’t plant the trees themselves, but rather they have a partnership with the International Tree Foundation.

The idea is becoming carbon-neutral, for which I personally would think one tree per server is nowhere near enough. But I think that they may be saying that just as a simple metaphor for us simple folks, and not so much as a literal 1-to-1 correlation. And they’ve also opened up a new data center powered by environmentally-friendly electricity, which seems like it would do a lot to close the "tree gap":
http://www.rackspace.co.uk/greendc/

So if you want a green dedicated server and you’re in Europe, this is certainly a option to consider.

These folks seem to have a great environmental and progressive mission and also offer a pretty sweet package for the price:
http://www.thinkhost.com/

Anybody have any experience with them?

OK well I decided to take a chance on an unknown host and went with ThinkHost. So far, so good. They use Apache/FreeBSD servers and run PHP with suExec, and their hosting package is very hard to beat (even compared to hosts who don’t use solar panels and plant trees).

I tried out Mosso. It’s not very reliable though. So I am leaving them.

Dreamhost has been the most reliable shared host I’ve used. My sites have been up for a year straight. I think I’ll stick with them.

Siteground keeps the sites up. But they get slooooooow in the evenings. And their help/support ticket system is AWFUL. You have to go through 5-10 minutes of testing and questions before you send the ticket. Then they always respond with more questions. Just takes forever.

I am using site5.com, I changed from bluehost. site5.com ,for whatever reason, is fast. They allow shell access and chmod without any restrictions. I setup modx in a few minutes without any issues. Their file manager works great except I did not find a way to move out of the modx directory into the root so I made a new tar that would unzip direct into root. My shell access was not working yet. They have excellent plans. Again, everything is very fast. You can see my site at http://www.infotech4missions.org

Quote from: ZAP at May 31, 2007, 05:42 PM

OK well I decided to take a chance on an unknown host and went with ThinkHost. So far, so good. They use Apache/FreeBSD servers and run PHP with suExec, and their hosting package is very hard to beat (even compared to hosts who don’t use solar panels and plant trees).

After trying ThinkHost for a few months now, we’re probably going to have to move this site to a different server. We have had so many different problems, many of which were severe and caused email or website outages. They are basically subcontracting server space from other providers and reselling it, and the server that we’ve had just seems to be overloaded or poorly maintained, since every week we have two or three new issues that have to be resolved.

Does anyone here have any experience with AISO? The clients are very interested in trying them because they’re a green host, but I’m wary of getting burned by yet another unknown quantity. I swear that two out of three times I try a new host I end up regretting it, no mater how well recommended they were.

*BUMP!*

No one here has used AISO? I’m not all that impressed by what I’ve been able to find out about them so far. They are highly recommended by folks on a green business mailing list, but since those folks are small business types and not very tech-savvy I take their advice with a grain of salt.

How about other hosts in the US that you’ve used and found to be reliable?

I’m very pleased with Clook; I have a VPS with them and they are good. I usually get responses to help requests within 10 minutes or so. They are a UK company, but they do have a server farm in the US. No VPS in the US yet, though.

http://www.clook.us/info/index.php