I apologize for the possible off-topic. Guys, could you tell me which web hosting company you are using at the moment? I have a problem because my current web hosting company hostrator.com is kicking me off. They say that our website is using too many server resources. But our website only gets 300 visitors per day..
Anyway, what would be your recommendations? Are you happy with your web hosting providers?
I am checking xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at the moment, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them and they say something like "1000GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will start running out of disk space we will simply add a new 1000GB drive so can continue uploading..".
What do you think about it? Any ideas and web hosting company name suggestions are much appreciated.
Your web hosting provider?
Moderator: zitch
Frankly, because this exact message was posted on hundreds of other forums, I would consider this spam. Yet the link looks to be a legit hosting service on the surface, I'd loath to just remove the topic as discussion of this could be interesting. That said, I would feel uncomfortable to deal with a company who would resort to this tactic, so I simply blanked out the link. Anybody else who's curious can check out another site on the google search I linked.
So, instead I'll pimp what I use...
I use a VPS from TekTonic for my own sites and email for the past several years, though if you're looking for just Web hosting /w PHP and MySQL, going the VPS route is pretty overkill. While web hosting is basically you're one of dozens, or even hundreds of sites on the same machine, the VPS I got is basically a virtualized linux server with a root account setup and SSH server installed and I'm basically given the keys. I had to setup everything myself (Apache2, PHP, MySQL, Postfix, etc), but I am very used to digging around the Linux command line and I know how to setup the server to be optimized for my own needs.
There have been the occasional outage, but I've measured my own up-time to be in the 99.99% area (so no "5 nines", but for what I'm paying, much better than I would probably do with a physical server at my house serving through my fiber connection). Sometimes, they do have to bring the systems down for kernel updates (which they handle. Updates for everything else on the server is my responsibility, but I've setup the server to email me when updates are available). So far, TekTonic has been treating me well and I have no desire to switch. I do recommend them if you want your own Linux VPS; the setup is ready in minutes of your order.
So, instead I'll pimp what I use...
I use a VPS from TekTonic for my own sites and email for the past several years, though if you're looking for just Web hosting /w PHP and MySQL, going the VPS route is pretty overkill. While web hosting is basically you're one of dozens, or even hundreds of sites on the same machine, the VPS I got is basically a virtualized linux server with a root account setup and SSH server installed and I'm basically given the keys. I had to setup everything myself (Apache2, PHP, MySQL, Postfix, etc), but I am very used to digging around the Linux command line and I know how to setup the server to be optimized for my own needs.
There have been the occasional outage, but I've measured my own up-time to be in the 99.99% area (so no "5 nines", but for what I'm paying, much better than I would probably do with a physical server at my house serving through my fiber connection). Sometimes, they do have to bring the systems down for kernel updates (which they handle. Updates for everything else on the server is my responsibility, but I've setup the server to email me when updates are available). So far, TekTonic has been treating me well and I have no desire to switch. I do recommend them if you want your own Linux VPS; the setup is ready in minutes of your order.