What web hosting do you use? Looking for web host.

FTSOwner · Aug 15, 2016

Mahan said:
I never said that web hosting is only the disk space. But for $5 a month 5GB is too small. And looking at the website, they do not really give much either. Some hosting companies provide you with a lot of other services such as lets say SEO analysis, free advertisement vouchers for google, yahoo etc..

There are other things such as hardware loads, support servicing, and etc. Also bear in mind for example "free" ads' vouchers often time require you to invest some money before you can even use them. For example I seen them require $50-$100 to redeem Google ones for example.

Mahan · Aug 15, 2016

FTSOwner said:
There are other things such as hardware loads, support servicing, and etc. Also bear in mind for example "free" ads' vouchers often time require you to invest some money before you can even use them. For example I seen them require $50-$100 to redeem Google ones for example.

The ones I used were free with my hosting. I used them and they worked.
Correct me if i'm wrong but I did not see anything about SSD storage either on the Clovux hosting website. So what is it that makes them so special? I can get myself a VPS with SSD drive and 20 times more storage space from a much more known company for cheaper than that.

FTSOwner · Aug 15, 2016

Mahan said:
So what is it that makes them so special? I can get myself a VPS with SSD drive and 20 times more storage space from a much more known company for cheaper than that.

Most shared providers supply you with Cpanel+some form of autoinstaller access so I would love to see you pull that off on a VPS. Oh and that right you also have to do all the admin work while you are at it!

In short a VPS is great if you have time and expertise to spare while a quality shared provider will get you up in no time.

About SSDs vs. HDDs they literally make little/no differences on a shared platform. It all in how the shared provider loads them. A web host who's put xxx clients on a pair of SSDs (not uncommon since they have to make up for the $$ SSDs cost them on their server rentals) can be inferior to a quality array of good old HDDs with only xx clients on a machine.

Mahan · Aug 15, 2016

Why would I need Cpanel? You set up a vps once. I will use FTP to do whatever I need to do with the site I am familiar enough with these stuff to not need a control panel.

FTSOwner · Aug 15, 2016

Mahan said:
You set up a vps once.

But please be aware that a VPS isn't just "fire and forget".

In addition to the setup you still have to...

Monitor IPs' rep, CPU, RAM, IOPS, and bandwidth usages
Monitor server's, and every software's logs
Keep up with security updates and patches from the OS down to the applications
Disaster recovery planning of your VM in addition to existing backups
And finally should you get hacked you got to fully investigative how, why, and when the hack occurred. Then most importantly apply these findings to your advantages so the same/similar incident doesn't happen all over again.

Most webmasters honestly just want to "fire and go" with a quality provider who would do all and often times more. They also often time have MUCH more manpower, experience, and tools than the "average Joe" would have as well.

Mahan · Aug 15, 2016

FTSOwner said:
But please be aware that a VPS isn't just "fire and forget".

In addition to the setup you still have to...

Monitor IPs' rep, CPU, RAM, IOPS, and bandwidth usages

Monitor server's, and every software's logs

Keep up with security updates and patches from the OS down to the applications

Disaster recovery planning of your VM in addition to existing backups

And finally should you get hacked you got to fully investigative how, why, and when the hack occurred. Then most importantly apply these findings to your advantages so the same/similar incident doesn't happen all over again.

Most webmasters honestly just want to "fire and go" with a quality provider who would do all and often times more. They also often time have MUCH more manpower, experience, and tools than the "average Joe" would have as well.

I already have someone that will be taking care of all of this for me. Someone who does this for a living and is very experienced.

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FTSOwner · Aug 15, 2016

Mahan said:
I already have someone that will be taking care of all of this for me. Someone who does this for a living and is very experienced.

Then you're luckily to have someone do this for you as these people don't come cheap otherwise ($50/month is norm for such servicing).

In your case a good VM will do you well as you're already supplied with the system administration it will demands.

But "trashing" shared providers for their cause of their pricing just because you can source a VPS cheaper is not appropriate.

ANYTHING that is more convenience for the "average Joe" is ALMOST always to cost more. Just like going to StarBucks vs. making your own Coffee in the morning.

Mahan · Aug 15, 2016

FTSOwner said:
Then you're luckily to have someone do this for you as these people don't come cheap otherwise ($50/month is norm for such servicing).

In your case a good VM will do you well as you're already supplied with the system administration it will demands.

But "trashing" shared providers for their cause of their pricing just because you can source a VPS cheaper is not appropriate.

ANYTHING that is more convenience for the "average Joe" is ALMOST always to cost more. Just like going to StarBucks vs. making your own Coffee in the morning.

What are you even talking about? How am I trashing another host? He showed me prices, I thought their expensive so I spoke my mind on MY OWN THREAD. I still think its expensive since I can bet anything there is hosting providers with the same hardware and features as them that are cheaper.

FTSOwner · Aug 15, 2016

Mahan said:
I still think its expensive since I can bet anything there is hosting providers with the same hardware and features as them that are cheaper.

There might be but I doubt their loads and servicing would match/be better than them.

Generally the higher you has to pay for the per unit of disk space and bandwidth the more servicing and/or more "elbow room" you get along with your package.

Mahan · Aug 15, 2016

FTSOwner said:
There might be but I doubt their loads and servicing would match/be better than them.

Generally the higher you has to pay for the per unit of disk space and bandwidth the more servicing and/or more "elbow room" you get along with your package.

Whatever dude, I don't want to waste any more time replying to this cause nothings gonna change my opinon about that.
Please only reply if you have something useful to say about the thread.