Comments on: Phil’s tips on choosing a web host

By: Web hosting multiple domain names

Web hosting multiple domain names — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:03:37 +0000

> Godaddy is the best hosting/domain company I could ever find
> (quality, support, cost).

In my experience GoDaddy is a solid domain registrar, but have heard quite a lot of criticism concerning their hosting. Some have complained their hosting being slow for example. Haven’t tried myself though, as I have several websites and there are cheaper alternatives for hosting several websites on a single hosting account.

Which reminds me of one more comment I would like to add to this list… If you are planning on having more than website in the future, make sure your host offers hosting plans with the ability to host multiple domains from the same account.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:18:02 +0000

maksalaatikko:

“They donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t all suck. The invisible hand has created many great hosts. You just have to pay $$$ for them. Read post 11.”

Franklin has a point (as usual). The invisible hand creates markets for EQUAL products. Not for products a-priori priced differently. Then the products compete on different markets. But then you can’t talk about the “invisible hand”. The “invisible hand” simply makes the price “equal” for “equal” products.

By: maksalaatikko

maksalaatikko — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:54:11 +0000

They don’t all suck. The invisible hand has created many great hosts. You just have to pay $$$ for them. Read post 11.

By: Freeridin' Franklin

Freeridin' Franklin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:52:36 +0000

How come all web hosts suck? I was under the impression that the free market fixes these things. Invisible hand and all.

By: strudel

strudel — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:41:59 +0000

If you are a newcomer, want to start a simple website and speak some Italian try this http://www.tophost.it . At a ALL-included 10 euro PER YEAR, they offer a standard product,with standard support, you may take or leave. Hard to believe they are earnest. Strudel

By: Thane Eichenauer

Thane Eichenauer — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:30:02 +0000

Why not just say caveat emptor and you get what you pay for.

Infinite resources (CCIE’s answering the front line numbers) are not an option at any web hosting service (e.g. utopia is not an option)… unless you pay for it.

Utopia is not an option.

By: John Anthony Evans

John Anthony Evans — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:15:39 +0000

Hmmm, phil either your comment forms are broken or you have started to ban people from commenting

By: John Evans

John Evans — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:14:08 +0000

Phil have you banned me from commenting because my comments no longer appear on your site.

By: John Evans

John Evans — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:12:08 +0000

Have you banned me from commenting Phil? None of the comments I post appear on your site anymore

By: John Evans

John Evans — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:10:19 +0000

have you banned me from making comments? none of them show up?

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:37:46 +0000

Godaddy is the best hosting/domain company I could ever find(quality, support, cost).

Funny you mentioned that, after just 9 days with GoDaddy I canceled my hosting with them. They suspended my account after just two days - they assigned me an IP that had previously been receiving a DoS attack. Seven days later, they hadn’t resolved this, and haven’t even sent me an e-mail to update me on the situation. Buh-bye!

By: Belino

Belino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:39:36 +0000

Godaddy is the best hosting/domain company I could ever find(quality, support, cost).

By: Liber Al

Liber Al — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:33:25 +0000

You left out the most important advice:

0. Never have your DNS SOA with your web host.

Other than that I agree with you. They all suck. This is why I’ve operated my own servers for the last 16 years.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:47:01 +0000

So, from where do you get most hits? US, Finland or other? IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m really curious about the ratios. Do tellÃ¢â‚¬Â¦..unless itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s a big secret of course

Nah, no secret. One of these days I’ll make a post with all the info. It’s just that, I haven’t really followed the stats in over a year. FfT’s readership kinda leveled out. I follow the number of visitors I get on blogads.com, cause the more I get, the more I can ask for advertising space.

By: aNtonio

aNtonio — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:05:37 +0000

On 3) those review sites have usually the same 10 hosts featured, those are the ones who take better care of their affiliates
And since that is such a profitable business they can easily buy their way to ppc ads and invest on proper SEO - outranking more honest discussion sites.

Here~s a finnish one that is honest (not to say that won~t be rigged or have biased threads): http://www.hostingvertailu.org/

but yeah, hosting is a huge market for lemons