Please help me in choosing web hosting

Report · Aug 05, 2008

Hi everyone,
I am sorry for possible offtopic, but I need your help in find new web hosting provider as soon as possible, because my current host (bluehost.com) is kicking me off, they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB (maybe they do not like that?)

Anyway, what would be your recommendations for getting reliable web hosting? Where are you hosting your websites? Are you happy with your providers?

I am now checking http://www.hosting24.com/ - offer looks very nice, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".

What do you think about it? Maybe things have changed in last 4 years? With my current provider I get only 2GB of disk space for $10 per month..
Any ideas and suggestions are much appreciated.

Report · Aug 05, 2008

I have been happy with CFDynamics
[ http://www.cfdynamics.com/sharedhosting/sharedhosting_comparison.cfm
for years now. They have always done well by me. But I am not looking
for a $10/month plan. We have the "CFD Enhanced" plan listed at 34.95
but get it at $24.47/month since we pay for a year at a time. There
most basic plan is 19.95/month (16.96/month if paid for a year).

This is pricer then many I have seen, but their support has been stellar
and I just don't see the need to move now to save a few bucks.

For my basic personal site, I use GoDaddy
[https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/landing.asp?ci=9169]
[https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/shared.asp?app_hdr=&ci=5652].
But I would not recommend their support. If you can live within the
capabilities of their on-line user interface their price is hard to
beat. But once you try to contact a human for support, you quickly find
from where the cost savings came.

Report · Aug 05, 2008

Your site could very well be using an excessive amount of server resrouces, regardless of the small number of visitors per day.

If you are serving up images that are tens of megabytes each, or if your database coding is not optimized, or if your database is poorly designed, you can chew up a ton of resources with a comparatively low number of users.

My advice is to ask your current host what, exactly, they are objecting to. If they can't give you a straight answer then you are probably better off changing hosts anyway.