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I've been using Shock Hosing for 3 month in various locations. It's pretty stable and reliable. I have only one outage in DE, but it's not their fault but upstream fault. One ticket I submitted was resolved within reasonable resolution time.
Shock is prem. Using them for a couple of dedis and one vm. Not a single issue.
I used KnownHost and HawkHost before, like ~12 years ago. At that time it was not easy to find a hosting provider that is not part of EIG, and those two worked fine for me.
Aren't all these providers premium?
No they’re not. Big cloud has more downtime and that’s a high bar to be premium since these providers hate downtime.
I dunno, I think I used VT in the past but none of the others. Shock has been like a little gem I found to be surprising stable and good support.
How are any of the providers mentioned in the OP relevant to Big Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)?
You can ask AI to dissect what must’ve flown over your head. Thank you.
You wrote above that Big Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) has more downtime than the premium providers discussed in the OP.
Knownhost is good, have had a server with them for a long time.
I used HawkHost in 2016, and I thought it was pretty good at the time.
MDD Hosting has solid shared hosting. A little pricey but it's fully managed.
That’s correct.
mdd hosting is too pricey. You can get quite similar performance on racknerd or hostbrr. I've used knownhost which is still good. shockhosting is for vps. but their shared fleet still has old E3/E5.
What I've been reading about MDD is that they are above and beyond in live support, essentially managing your services for you.
I've been using KnownHost managed VPS for many years now for one of my projects that I need stability and up-time for. Their support has saved me on numerous occasions and they're always very fast to reply, regardless of the day or time. The up-time has been exceptional. I am unaware of the other hosts you mentioned.
EIG may no longer be acquiring everyone, but the consolidation in the space continues. Every time you look, there are fewer hosts from that era. I run into people in person, and a year later, they’re no longer in the hosting game.
For many providers, I cannot fault them for using older hardware. If you’re around long enough, you start having a lot of old hardware. Especially when you own all the equipment, it’s harder to justify getting rid of what’s not broken. We only recently got rid of what remained of our E5’s in favor of AMD EPYC 9654’s and by the time that was complete, they were already dated. Now looking around at our older Intel Scalable’s and AMD EPYC’s and thinking it’s only a matter of time and we’re doing it again.
With the exception of VeeroTech, I've got services running with all of these providers and they are all rock solid. The things I need to consolidate I've been moving to Shock, but you really can't go wrong with any of these players.
I used HawkHost about 10 years ago and haven't had any major issues in 3 years with them.
I know nothing about those providers mentioned but the only thing I know is that @bikegremlin wrote about MDDHosting on his blog.
Shock Hosting is excellent provider, been with them for several years now, 0 issues.
Don't know about the other four, never used them...
That's the website - blog is different.
I also wrote about Veerotech (decent provider too).
Haven't used services of those other listed providers so can't say anything except that Knownhost has been on my shortlist to try for quite some time, they look promising based on the info I could gather.
I saved ~$150/year by switching from MDDHosting reseller to Namecrane DA reseller. And Namecrane has better performance. But I manage everything myself.
I wouldn't expect Namecrane to help with a broken WordPress plug-in. But MDDHosting would. And that's what you're paying for.