How? The thread equally applies. There are managed VPS options which can take care of basic hygiene of the servers
The cost is not too high but the chance is reduced drastically that a neighboring user's rogue script does not reduce performance to everyone on the shared server
I see these warnings and people giving this advice all the time. I question what the likely hood or statistical probability of this happening is. I question that this is not an actual up-sale fear point originally introduced to the market and now a normal buzz statement. I really don't know but have heard the stories about it happening to the ones it did, but on a wide scale basis, I doubt these numbers are realistic enough to worry. Like the statistic of how likely you will have a car accident today. It's a risk everyone has to take to move about. I would think if this problem was as widespread as people really claim, shared hosting wouldn't be as popular as it is at all. Again, I don't know but extremely skeptical based on scanning news, forums, etc... and statistically not seeing "a man that shared hosting crap screwed me with all the script problems from other websites on my shared host." There really is those stories, but why aren't they exploding everywhere? I don't hear mainstream news stories about wordpress scripts running rogue and locking up everyone's data for bitcoin fee's. Sorry...I just don't. But I am not insisting that I am correct, just a reasoning kind of guy that looks at truth from different angles versus what I am always told.
With that thought in mind...does that mean "all" the shared hosting providers, re-sellers, etc... around here are just pushing a bad product that is not really in anyone's best interest outside of hosting it for one or two page personal blog postings? I don't seem to see that in their selling points.
You can go for a manged VPS. It'll be slightly more expensive but if these are aspects that you want to offload, you can.
Instead of saying "what you can do," and since many of us are learning, and we don't have to continue begging for "any" information that will also help us get on our way...why not state specific examples? Anyone reading this would find that extremely helpful so they can compare, research, understand the industry more.
I'm not too sure what reseller hosting exactly is but I was commenting purely about a shared server.
Shared server "is" re-seller hosting/space. Not sure how you don't know what hosting is versus shared server and then can give that much information technically about best approach. You completely threw me for a loop when you said this.
Why not? I've been a shared hosting user for over 12 years for my personal 2 page site + blog. I've tried at least 3-4 different providers and I can say with certainty that all shared hosting providers suffer minor downtime and performance issues including, and not limited to, intrusions and mal-usage.
Who exactly are those 3-4 different providers you have tried over 12 years? I also wouldn't hold validity towards the amount of years versus who you are actually using. Things aren't the same as they were 4 years ago, never mind 12. There was not nearly as much stability and options as there are today versus just even a few years ago.
For a personal project, as it grows, yes. That path is likely optimal. But when you're responsible for customer websites and other organization's business/revenues etc, it is advisable to err on the side of caution
"personal project" = what exactly? Working with mom and pop organizations that aren't currently online and getting them up and running? Working with the school high school band for their trip to Waterloo? What does this mean? Expand some more. Sounds like to me many folks started the exact route I mentioned to get to where they are now with VPS's and the like. Maybe I am wrong about folks in this forum because there aren't enough conversations like this and it appears most folks like to work and keep their ideas and thoughts in the shadows. Climb the mountain but never tell anyone how you got there except for glory stories only...
So some of us keep reinventing parts of the wheel as we go making the same mistakes and tripping over the same hurdles along the way...seems kind of pointless but is what it is in a dog eat dog world.
I also strongly question the level of service and quality you are getting from a host that is $20 a year like the ones mentioned in this thread versus $20 a month from inmotion. Sounds like to me that you are trading off a LOT more risk to your clients between these two options. We know inmotion is going to be here in another year, two, etc... It sounds like to me it is like choosing between Amazon delivery my product versus the kid next store doing it for a couple of bucks. But again...I really don't know but think it is a safe guess.
