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Most reliable big hosting brands?
We all started from somewhere.. most likely some current EIG company.
Are you still hosting any website/project currently in any of these big brands like hostgator, godaddy, bluehost.. etc? If yes what was your experience with them and who do you think is the most reliable big hosting brand?
My best personal experience was siteground. Somewhere was worth the money for it's shared hosting service.
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I wouldn't compare them to an EIG buyout brand but I use KnownHost to run some websites for relatives that I don't want linked to my own stuff. I like that they've always been pretty "web hosting catering" mainly and the best I'd trust for that from their experience, pretty sure I pre-pay like 3 years or something.
Siteground wasn't bad when I used them, tbh. But moved away, ultimately. Of the big brands, I also use IONOS for most "managed" clients and it works good enough.
In 2014 at the start of our game hosting business, we used GoDaddy for webhosting. We eventually moved to our own owned hardware and webservers. However, since the initial webhosting at GoDaddy, we still have around 20 domains sitting with them. I will add the reason we ended up switching to our own servers is multiple times they completely wiped our dns configuration taking our website down for up to 24 hours each time.
I still have some sites hosted with following:
Namecheap did me good when I used it for my stupid lol websites. Never had any downtime.
Rackspace.
Had a hosting package with godaddy for the longest time, up until I needed more resources and eventually moved to VPS / Dedis / DIY full-time. The only shared hosting I now have is through @MikePT for a lifetime (I guess?)
I had a good experience with Dreamhost. Used them for something like 10 years. And they were happy to host 200GB of stuff on my $7.95/mo shared hosting. A guy on WHT said he had > 1TB o this shared account.
Liked their panel so much more than cPanel (or even DA).
It's been a few years - no idea what they're like now.
All EIG brands for mini websites was perfect. No downtime, no problems with support. Siteground, asmallorange, hostgator.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Dreamhost were one of those "unlimited" disk space guys, correct? Interestingly, I seem to have heard more positive things about them than one would perhaps assume.
https://www.hetzner.com
Originally they were not, then they went unlimited, then for a while they said "unlimited plus 50GB" because you also got 50GB of free personal backup space, though they later dropped that service.
I don't think it's dishonest, in the sense of what "unlimited disk" means:
Given that, there are very few people who'll be able to exceed more than, what, 50GB?
I was able to get up to 200GB through a combination of:
Again, there are people who had >1TB of legit content and DH didn't complain.
Seems fair enough, tbh. "Unlimited" Storage done right, perhaps? Interesting to hear, nontheless!
I was able to negotiate a lower price for many years until they stopped and I switched away. Stupid of them. The best part of DreamHost was the newsletter. Legendarily funny.