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When Purchasing Shared Hosting, What Do You Look For And Why?

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  • @Nick_A said: When I purchase shared hosting I look for a VPS. :D

    Haha.. LOL.. Nice one, bro... :D

  • @jarland said: Always trying to find a better way to do things, spending money appropriately on development of new offerings. I don't want a host that says "here's cpanel, I know how to run an install script, now pay me." I want passion. I want my host to love what they do.

    Stop by we can fill you with passion and also tickle you free :P

  • The only reason I have website on shared hosting is because the server has a cisco firewall in front of it. Otherwise my site was originally on a VPS.

    Now I'm thinking of moving it back to vps and enable cloudflare or incapsula.

  • I think support and overall quality of service is most important with shared hosting.

  • Up to date PHP and MySQL. I've seen some hosts running PHP 5.1 and MySQL 5.0! le gasp

  • @serverbear There is value in shared hosting when done right. We offer several packages that perform far better on their own than most small to medium VPS servers. Of course, most shared hosting is crap.
    Some of the web sites that we host on our shared hosting (we call it hybrid cloud hosting):
    http://www.seiucalifornia.org
    http://olympus-gaming.net
    http://www.cambridgelsat.com

    Of course we allocate healthy amounts of PHP and APC memory for each account along with huge MySQL buffers and set InnoDB as the default storage engine amongst other things, use Varnish Cache for web server caching and acceleration and use RAID-10 arrays for storage and MySQL.

    Another company that I know of that provides great shared hosting is hotdrupal.com, but they are expensive for this day and age.

    This might be the wrong place to ask about shared hosting do :P

    As a rule of thumb, avoid the big shared hosting providers.
    @serverbear has 2 great articles on this subject on his blog:

    http://blog.serverbear.com/industry/does-unlimited-hosting-exist/

    http://blog.serverbear.com/guides/choosing-hosting-company/

  • cPanel w/ Cloud-Linux. Just more stable in general. Decent support and even though installing scripts is a breeze, it's just nice having an auto-installer for when I'm feeling lazy.

    That's it, really.

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