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Anyone know of any UK shared hosts? Not for myself but a friend.
A Small Orange was a HostGator company. What they did now that HostGator is EIG acquired, I don't know.
Webhostingpad is total craps I used them at the beginning. Slow, unreliable, bad support.
@Makkesk8
I've used 1and1 shared for almost ten years. MySQL must have 5 nines uptime for me and overall consistently web hosting over four nines in my experience
@JTR - I've used Dreamhost for more than 7 years and have been quite happy.
What are your issues?
Terrible control panel, oddly restricted access permissions, it's slow at times, and my client wants to move for other reasons (they don't really trust Dreamhost, partially because of a legal scuffle between my client, Dreamhost, and their former web developer). The entire Dreamhost account we have is terribly set up too, the transfers have left a mess of accounts all over the place, some of which are only authorized to access certain things.
I'm going to suggest Mediatemple to my client and I'll mention some of the smaller ones from this thread as alternatives. Thanks for all the suggestions!
I disagree. Totally. It's much better than the run of the mill cPanel. Nice API, easy to use, billing and management are in one place, easy to manage domains, easy to manage MySQL, subversion, etc. Not really sure what makes it terrible.
cPanel always seems like a hacked-up mess to me. It's premised on the "main domain + add-on domains" model which is silly. DH's panel just makes them all the same, and they're all in /home/yourname/example.com directories without public_html vs. add-on, etc.
Can't comment on the rest - but i like DH's panel.
I've been using MediaTemple for a while now. It's awesome! That's all I can say.
There are a lot of cheap providers out there. We personally look for something different that shared hosting yet cheap. Rrdnshosting.com is a nice concept. Its clustered shared hosting so is reliable. A couple of our clients use them.
I used Media Temple before I got really into this whole VPS thing. They were the best shared host I had ever used. Although I assume there might be better hosts that have launched since then.
@ShardHost I offer UK webhosting since 2006
I don't know if PavHost hosts RSPS'es but I do know that they're hosting fake "Verisign Secure" and fake "BBB Accredited" seals on their home page so I guess they're OK with any type of copyright infringement including RSPS's.
Is Mediatemple worth the premium cost?
A $4/mo plan from IPXCore or Hostigation could comfortably fit the site's rather low resource usage. Is there any reason not to just go with them?
If performance and stability are your major concerns, I strongly recommend MediaLayer. Try it to believe it.
http://www.medialayer.com/hosting/application-hosting.html
It is the shared hosting I truly enjoyed before moving to my own LEB for capacity reasons.
IPXCore or catalysthost
I suggest..
www.verygoodSharedHostWith5MinuteOffsiteBackup.com for $5pm with no overselling
I'm trying to decide if Medialayer is worth spending $16/mo more on. Reviews seem mixed.
Yep. You won't really experience any random down times or small problems that can arise with LEB hosts. Not to say any premium host like mediatemple is absolutely perfect, but for $15 a month more.. it's not much.
Then again, if this is just a low traffic website and not so important to making money, it may not be worth it for the premium hosts.
I have MediaTemple because I host my clients there (I'm a webdesigner), so it has to work. If I were hosting only my small website, I'd probably choose something else.
Big company wise - hostrocket.com
Can't go wrong with them. Have used them in the past for a few years.
Shared = Boo!
says an openvz vps provider
For the UK, try tsohost.com They're top notch for shared hosting, and they'll fall over backwards to help you.
We could charge 1500% more for the same service, but there isn't really a need to. It looks like they have 24/7 phone support, we have 24/7 ticket support.
What type of uptime are people seeing with media temple? They imply everything is grid/HA
MediaLayer offers great performance as I can say from my own past experience. My WP site (with ~15 active plugins) was running so fast even without caching plugin. The only reasons I left them was due to budget constraints and the itching to build my own web server