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Hi all,

I'm in desperate need of a recommendation for a solid host provider for my own blog, carlgalloway.com, and also for s9y-users.com

What I'm looking for is a provider with good quality shared server plans, good track record of minimal downtime, able to support Serendipity (ie needs php and mysql), provides wget functions and phpmyadmin, and a control panel similar to h-sphere, helm etc.

I am also looking for a provider who will be able to upgrade s9y-users to a virtual dedicated or full dedicated server when traffic reaches that level. At present I'm using Jodohost (I have a reseller account) but their service seems to be slipping. If at all possible I would also prefer an account in Europe or the US since the majority of my traffic is EU or North American.

If anybody on these forums gets good hits on their site and can recommend a provider that they use (or if you have your own hosting company and want to recommend yourself) please PM me, or email me webmaster [at] carlgalloway [dot] com

Thanks guys,

Carl

Hey Carl,

I've converted about 10 of my friends to site5.com...they've been in business since before the dot com bust and they've got great service.

I also like that they always keep things up to date with the latest security etc.

I've been with them since 2004 and have no plans to sway from them. I also moved all my business over to them (I host pages for small businesses locally) and I helped move the pclinuxos.com domain over there when they hit hosting snags. They were back up in 6 hours.

The guys as site5 rock. If you get there and like their packages...tell them devnet from "Yet Another Linux Blog" sent you

Carl,

I don't have an answer for you but I have a site for further information
The guys at http://Webhostingtalk.com post tons of reviews and suggestions on hosting solutions.

Hurstel

I've been using ARVIXE.COM for the past two years with no problems at all. They have everything you need and great prices.

oddcarl

Thanks everyone, I got a lot of emails about this, mostly from people asking me the same question, but I did also find a small webhost in the US who are able to do what I want. I'm going to try them for a couple of months and see how good their service is. If anyone is interested they are Relio (www.relio.com) and I chose them because they offer servers in the US or the UK, and it will be possible for me to mirror my sites for each market as they get more popular.

Thanks,

Carl

I've been using

http://www.aplus.net/

largely because they offer windows as well as unix servers. I want to do web services using ASP.NET so I need windows servers. They are a little weird as a firm, half US and half Bulgarian. The Bulgarian side is a little stiff insofar as contract terms which causes a little tension at times when you need a little flexibility. However, the network up time is wonderful, the tech support quite helpful, the prices reasonable, the bandwidth very good and the supplied options pretty good. So far I've been quite happy with them.

Hi Carl,

I want to plug myself shamelessly. I'm owning a hosting company, which is calles Schokokeks.org. This hosting company provides you an account for 7€/month which includes the following features:

• PHP 5.2 with suhosin
• MySQL 5.0 (as much databases as you need)
• Unlimited traffic (limited by the fair use principle*)
• Unlimited webspace (limited by the fair use principle*)
• Imap, smtp, pop3 accounts as much as you need (surely secured with SSL)
• Proven to run many S9Y-Weblogs (just to mention a few of our customers/administrators):
  • Stefan Horning
  • Bernd Wurst
  • Hanno Böck
  • my own weblog
• Good support
• Spam prevention via Spamassassin and Greylisting
• Ruby on Rails
• Python suppor
• A jabber-account with your own domain (in my case, my email-address is also my jabber id)
• Jabber-transports for ICQ, IRC, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GaduGadu
• DynDNS via HTTPS or SSH (home.carl.com)
• Subversion repositories for (svn.carl.com)
• Real shell account

You can find more information on Schokokeks.org (maybe you need to utilize babelfish or something like that)

*Fair us principle: no limitations as far as every other customer is capable of running his/her stuff. In fact, we did not limit any account (exception default quotas to make sure, the user does not flood its homedir by incidence) yet.