Just to drive me home, I'm

graemewatson — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:03:21 +0000

Just to drive me home, I'm working on a website for the client, and it was a case where they host themselves instead in a way that I want to pay a little extra to keep on the server was. Anyway, I'm testing, and pages are loading slower than molasses. I always print debugging information in the footer of the website development

If one goes for shared

Host.co.in — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:26:20 +0000

If one goes for shared hosting at such a cheap rate, then he should be ready for such disasters. Its common sense, why one would provide quality service without having profit.

Let me tell you about my

leewells — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:30:29 +0000

Let me tell you about my experience with Bluehost; first of all, let me explain my "wants". I guess I'm like any one else, I want to upload mywebsites, get everything up and running and not have to worry about it until I have to pay the bill again. Simple, not to much to ask for right?

On Bluehost, my first 8 months was hassle free, a webmasters web dream. However after you have to pre-pay them for a year that 8th month was the difference between night and day. It started with random downtime, DNS errors, DNS entry deletions, server outages, (all within a month's time), and then an "upgrade" to the server (which was welcomed). Month 10, the downtime stopped but this month revealed why - As nearing the end of Month 10, my site becomes "temporarily unavailable". Ok so I call and they say I have too many tables (more than 1,000 tables in 23 databases). So I go through and delete the old tables I don't need any more. Two days later, shut down again. I call and this time the "new limit" is 800 tables.

You now get the idea, once they had my account pinned down to the point I couldn't even run WordPress I called them on their advertising saying that they state you can run multiple websites and they support wordpress. They then turned the site back on, and three days later, its off again, "File Count Limit". And the dance starts again.

After I finally stripped all my sites off their server but ONE, (my firm's website), a month later (today and you can verify www.mlwassociates.com), guess what? BANNED, "TOS VIOLATION - PHISHING". For the record, I was allowed to download my files through FTP while it was banned. And I have checked all the files, there are nothing that even looks like another website (besides our firm's website lol) but I guess this is their scheme - they take your money and then start grasping for straws in the TOS to find any reason to shut you down and keep your money.

ms2134 wrote: Should they

greg — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:23:06 +0000

ms2134 wrote:

Should they not have protection against DDOS attacks; thus there should be no excuse.

They should, yes, but how far they go I don't know as there are different levels and techniques that can be used. Some companies use the basics, firewalls etc and some have extensive protection systems to detect potential attacks.

That said even the worlds best protected servers can only do so much, and have to be careful as it's hard to determine and distinguish between what could be a ddos attack and "intentional" server overload, or just simply a busy website that is getting too many hits/data transfer for the services it provides and not enough resource allowance.

Like a house, you can put many locks/bolts etc on it, if YOU can get into your own house, so can an intruder, even if it is by different means. If your house had no doors/windows at all then no-one could get in and would defeat the purpose of the house. As like a server, they have to allow data to be transferred, that is of course their main purpose.

I am not sure exactly how

ms2134 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:24:44 +0000

I am not sure exactly how they may be linked but i believe that they may be, as i said above.

The website hosting companies seem to be splitting up with different names just in case they get some bad reviews but then another company can just appear and suddenly have some good ratings. Seems a little "strange" to me...

Best Regards,
Mike

I believe that is correct. I

ms2134 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:21:38 +0000

I believe that is correct. I believe that i made a post about it somewhere here on the forums and yes, i would also believe that you may be correct in your suspicion that they both seem to go down at the same time or near enough.

One thing that strikes me odd is that should website hosting companies, I mean estalished ones and not resellers. Should they not have protection against DDOS attacks; thus there should be no excuse.

May i have some more views on this matter please?

Best Regards,
Mike

Is that true that BH and

decibel.places — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:26:52 +0000

Is that true that BH and Hostmonster are owned by the same people?

yes, I think I have heard that too

interestingly [I guess] often when BlueHost goes down, so do my client's sites at RackSpace --- not sure why, maybe they are related somehow, in same location, or perhaps just big hosting cos that are targets of the same attacks

This thread has finally

Ruth — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:00:41 +0000

This thread has finally killed my desire to deal with BH whenever. I have lots of skepticism about that provider, but now I am completely against using their service..

By the way, Is that true that BH and Hostmonster are owned by the same people?

ugh - today none of my sites

decibel.places — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:05:36 +0000

ugh - today none of my sites are working at BH - I don't even get any error page, just a page load error - and the mail server is quirky too

ms2134 and I are both resellers for a reputable hosting company with data centers in the UK and the US - I have not experienced any problems or complaints about the service

I started reselling because my clients sometimes ask about hosting, and I have not found a shared hosting co I really can recommend, until I tried out this one. They don't support Subversion in shared hosting, but few do.

On d.o. I read about http://www.hotdrupal.com/ with "hybrid vps" hosting starting at around $6/month but a realistic plan is about $10/month...

They responded to my inquiry that they do support Subversion, but they recommend the "Plus" plan ($15/mo) for anything beyond the basic setup.

They're not on webhostingunleashed - anybody have any feedback on Hot Drupal hosting?

I suppose eventually I shall purchase my own server - until then it is hit and miss in the hosting arena

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For a good laugh, one of my more "out there" clients suggested using Qbit's Reality Bender hosting featuring "Quantum Controlled Web Site Hosting" (a technology that is only theoretical!)!

I still have a

teammatt3 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:56:48 +0000

I still have a shared/reseller account that I use to create my small sites, but with my big projects, I have a lightning fast dedicated server in a super fast datacenter . I can't believe I thought I could get quality hosting for <$10 a month. But like pr0g said, web hosts have to jam pack people on the server to make a profit.