Shared Webhosting 2015.
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- carrotorange
I am at my wits' end at trying to find a decent, reliable, secure, well-structured, technologically up-to-date webhost. In my decade of experience, you cannot rely on "web reviews," canned promotional twitter feeds, social media or really anything else but your own unfortunate trial-and-error OR for what I'm hoping for good, tested recommendations from other experienced developers/designers.
Here's a list of requirments, for what i'm looking for:
- affordable shared hosting < $12/month - tons of hard drive space/bandwidth (approx. min. 100G+/1T) - php 5.5 and the standard other - shell access (preferred) - no limit (or plenty) on domains, emails, etc (limited by your resources) - tons of memory or not limiting - a non-canned support system with real server admins available. - reliable 99.9% uptime servers - Not owned by a large corporation running several shoddy hosting brands - PHP hosting that will allow and be friendly to common cms packages - Hosting that does not force you to physically disturb native cms content structure (seperating static vs. script in actual folder or path structure) - hosting where you can serve large files (200mb - 1G, range, ex.) and accomodate clean downloads without memory quota issues, and related to a php environment/htacess rules (for simple mimetype handling, for example). - have been used > 1 year and still used personally and for php projects to-date with a variety of php sites and hosting media.
- Progressively upgrades and jumps on security issues (like recent ShellShock patching)I don't want to mention specific hosts that i've had or have issue with (at the moment, anyway), so if anybody operates and often builds diverse websites and applications where they can testify to the reliability of and a completely problem-free host, please post here.
I have yet to find and use a host that offers all of the above, or one that passes the test regarding, security, access, structure/compability/stability, resources/space/memory.
It really shouldn't be a problem today but over the past few years, it's like a nightmare, an exercise in disaster. I'm just a front-end developer yet, it boggles my mind how many ridiculous problems I have run across recently to the point on halt-all-production outside of a local enviroment and where I feel like sys admin > correlating to > developer master. Sadly, all I want to do is build/design several websites, launch them, be able launch a clients with no problems or without worrying about tomorrow, and NOT constantly run across some stupid server-based issue preventing me from executing really, simple traditional php-focused websites.
Long-story short, I was forced to move from my last host due to their inability to secure their servers and upgrade when ShellShock surfaced and their subsequent snub towards their customers. Another recent host, while touted to be focused for developers, has an awkward servers structure not compatible with standard cms installations and other basic problems.
I am at a loss. Not interested in the PR on the web or other forums, only in personally tested and currently using recommendations, if there are any?!
- noneck0
1TB for less than $12/month? Good luck.
- carrotorange0
Or in the ballpark. Mediatemple, you can get a deal for that @1TB, current host, which i paid $6 w/deal for 600GB, host before that, with deal/at $5 had "unlimited" - which did ring true.
From experience of 10 years, $12/month is max for shared. 2006 I was paying $10, most I ever paid. Usually 5-9. The one host that i had for over 7 years was great, unlimited. never a problem. Solid until they started cramming accounts on shared servers over the past few years, which caused an annual "problem" where I had to get my account moved to another server. That solved the problem and they actually had good people aboard until they started flipping their staff and outsourcing.
But looking around, 1TB is not unreasonable for $12.. not that much today at all. 600G-1TB -in that range.
- carrotorange0
You can always get lower deals with shared hosts for multiple years.
- carrotorange0
"From experience of 10 years, $12/month is max for shared"
- I mean this from the perspective that there is a limit for what shared hosting is worth period... or you upgrade up. By todays standards 1TB is not a huge amount. That is why mediatemple for example lists their full retail at $20-, because anything over that you might as well go VPS. there's a limit.
- noneck0
I guess I look at that rate for that much storage, and I see AWS ($30/month for 1TB) or Dropbox ($10/month for 1TB). I don't see actual web hosting for that price.
- sublocked0
These are both great options
https://www.digitalocean.com/pri…
https://www.linode.com/pricingDigitalOcean is my current favorite. I've got ~12 servers with them last count.
- I love Digital Ocean too, but I wasn't comfortable managing the server side until I found http://serverpilot.i…...noneck
- Balls. http://serverpilot.i…noneck
- sublocked0
Also, fuck shared hosting. Virtual Private Servers or cloud based is where it's at. Install debian...updates are as easy as...
"sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"
- ESKEMA0
Webfaction has always been awesome for me. The only problem I had with them was regarding SFTP extra users permissions, but they already addressed that.
I'm not into advanced stuff, so I don't know how it performs on that shit.
- organicgrid0
I have been using shared web hosting www.Bluehost.com for about a year now with no problems.
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