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New Hosting Company

Posted by The Great Java  Published in General

I have several sites I want to setup and need a hosting company that will let me do that. My longtime provider, Midphase, has had ok service. The tech support has been okay as long as I didn’t have anything unusual. Their live support has gotten harder to use (long waits). They have a plan offered by http://anhosting.com that has most of what I need, but it yearly payments. I really want something with less commitment.

So followed my friend at firestorm-technologies and tried out http://HostGator (current host). Here is what I learned chatting with their support and research.

  • All hosts have limits. Midphase cuts service when you hit 10% of CPU. Hostgator does when you hit 25% longer than 90 seconds. Hostgator seems more reasonable here.
  • Databases. Both have plans with unlimited databases (surely they aren’t each a process). Anyway Midphase limits you to 50 simultaneous connections, Hostgator you get only 25. Really you could only host one active site on Hostgator.
  • Speed. This of course is very hard to measure. Once my site was replicated on hostgator I ran some tests using tools that check speed from several locations in the world on different networks. Bottom line, Hostgator was almost 3 times as fast rendering my blog. A better test would have been to run this over several days with a variety of pages.
  • Support. Hostgator seems to be slower turning around small requests but in general is easy to get a hold of and online chats have worked well.
  • Terms. Hostgator TOS scare me actually. All kinds of odd fees and stuff they might charge you if you are a problem. Midphase would probably do the same things they just didn’t disclose it. Hostgator is a month-to-month contract - I like that.

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