Who is Best Hosting Provider?

[pdevananth]

Hi Guys,

Who is the best hosting provider in terms of speed and price?

 

[HostNurse]

Are you looking for shared web hosting, VPS or dedicated server? What other web hosting requirements do you have such as disk space, bandwidth, etc?

 

[nboy]

There is no single best hosting provider. Its based on what you need and what the host can offer.

 

[David Dakarai]

Godaddy is best.

 

[HostNurse]

Godaddy is best.

Best according to what criteria? According to the large amount of negative reviews they get!

 

[Rado_Ch]

Super vague and to a large extent, wrongly put question... sadly such pop daily in the hosting forums...

If you care to share details about your project, requirements and budget, this would really help getting some more quality replies...

 

[Raffick Marday]

I am godaddy has better plans.

 

[iAchilles]

I can only chime in on shared hosting options from my own experience, but I've nothing but good things to say about HawkHost's shared hosting plan.

If you need more power than shared hosting, check out Digital Ocean.

 

[the furbox]

Go Daddy is Best Hosting Service Provide.

 

[Billy Bradley]

It’s a tough fight between GoDaddy and Hostgator as I feel both are really good especially comparing their price too but I just give slight but very slight edge to Hostgator as I feel they are better host and as for GoDaddy they are better domain provider so both have their strong points but at the end of the day it’s all about personal choice that some like Godaddy some prefer Hostgator.

 

[ulterios]

GoDaddy should not be considered unless you want to have extra cost tacked on after you start a hosting plan with them. Their Shared hosting plans only come with 512MB of RAM to use and you will get warnings all the time saying your resources are at their limit and to please buy more resources. They charge you an extra $2 a month to give you 1GB or RAM so that's an extra $24 a year. Many other cPanel host will give you 1GB of RAM included in their hosting plans so you won't run out of resources easily. If you domain doesn't get much traffic then you will be ok with GoDaddy.

GoDaddy's hosting support totally screwed up one of my WordPress sites to a point that it could not be fixed. I had to rebuild the site from scratch after moving it to another host. They are very nice on the phone but their hosting support needs improvement. I had to call and deal with them several times after they screwed up my website before it was found to be a total loss. Several of their support people I talked to on the phone said they were going to get it fixed within an hour or two and then they would call me back. None ever did. I had to keep calling them back for days before it was found a lost cause.

As for other hosts, STAY AWAY from any host that is owned by EIG! Some of their hosting companies are ipage, hostgator, hostmonster, fatcow, justhost, + many more. I had a couple of hosting plans with 2 different companies of theirs and after being with them for many months they then held my websites hostage. They tried to force me into buying sitelock security through them before they would release my websites. They claimed my sites had malware. The sites were previously by both free and paid security companies and they found NO malware at all.

As a clash of interest the software they used to detect and scan the supposedly infected websites was software by sitelock, the same company they were trying to force me to buy their malware protection from. They wanted me to pay just under $100 per site to have the supposed malware fixed and have my sites released. Since I had dozens this added up to thousands of dollars. If you don't want to get strong armed into buying their sitelock security package then stay away from them. This happened to both of my accounts at different hosting companies of theirs.

As far as which is best, that will depend on what your exact needs are. There are many good ones out their. I have one hosting account at Namecheap and have been with them for getting close to a year and their support is the very best I have ever had. Their first year of sharred hosting prices are really good and they give you twice the RAM as godaddy and many others. If you ever need support they will usually fix anything withing a couple hours. I have had issues resolved in less than a half hour on multiple occasions.

 

[iAchilles]

+ 1 to the above host relating to everything about GD and HG etc. I did a lot of research when choosing my hosting provider, and GD and HG were at the bottom of the pile! I can't understand all the recommendations on here, go do your homework on them and you'll quickly realise they're far from the best.

Whoever you choose, do your homework before committing to a plan and read up on other's experiences with them. My 2 cent.

 

[RU]

Namecheap / web-hosting.com - nice.

 

[Kyra Clinic]

Go Daddy is Best Hosting service Provide.

 

[Kiran Gupta]

I think the two Bigrock and Bluehost India are the best hosting service provider because they are offering the best services while keeping the price minimum.

 

[thekiller]

SiteGround.com is best, speed, reliability, server response time.

 

[WebClickIndia]

Godaddy is best

 

[RU]

Godaddy and Namecheap

 

[enlytend]

Slow-daddy?
Their tech support people are very nice and very available ... but useless. And heaven forbid you have a security issue - all they'll do is try to upsell you to a useless, overpriced add on feature.

 

[ulterios]

Slow-daddy?
Their tech support people are very nice and very available ... but useless. And heaven forbid you have a security issue - all they'll do is try to upsell you to a useless, overpriced add on feature.

I had a plan with them a while back because I was going to have to buy a domain at their $9.99 price so I just went ahead and got the $12 for a year hosting plan since the hosting wound up being $2 more for a year and the domain was included.

The whole time I was with them I kept getting warnings that my hosting was out of resources. All they give for their many of their plans is 512MB of RAM, that's it. The other resources are all lower than most hosts as well.

Then to top it off I transferred the domain I had hosted with them to another registrar, they decided to remove it from my hosting plan. I was on the phone half a dozen times over 3 days trying to get everything sorted out. When all was done, one of their techs thought he had got everything fixed but he mistakenly erased my files and installed a new install WordPress and I lost everything, even the backups I had there.

They are real nice on the phone but after that incident I just don't trust them and the low resource levels seals the deal that they are just not a good choice for many people. If you have a few HTML landing pages or something that doesn't take a lot of resources then you might be ok. Just make SURE you have regular off-site backups because they might loose your website/files and then say sorry.