What's the best web hosting platform?

Hi Mary, I see, that's why there are some error occur when I post on this site. I recommend http://www.bluehost.com for web hosting this works fine for us and I'm using their services for more than 2 years now. You can search them regarding their performance. Thanks! BTW. just hit me an email when you are ready regarding your video project! Many Thanks!

Answered 9 months ago by Dennis Azana

hi mary,
this depends on what you want to host.
generally I tend to do-it myself :)
tell me more about your requirements and I'll get back to you.
cordially,
axel

Answered 9 months ago by Axel Huizinga

Good Afternoon Mary,
I was introduced by a colleague that reads the MosaicHub that reads the post/articles daily. I saw your recent post and perhaps you've already made the jump to AWS or Rackspace, but my company Profitbricks has some unique technology that would certainly help MosaicHub out and is half of the cost of Amazon and Rackspace. I can tell you that we focus on Vertical Scaling, Network Flexibility, and Security in the Cloud. We have a unique Virtual Data Center where you can literally drag and drop servers, add firewalls, etc and have your page running in 10 minutes. I would love to speak to you a bit more as I would love for you or your IT team to TEST us out.

Answered 9 months ago by Corey Brown

I personally like HostGator. They have great customer service and you pay one price and can host unlimited sites.

Answered 9 months ago by Diane Bianchi

Hi MAB! I love HostGator for my small business website. They have awesome customer service and are cheap. Great combination. Justin

Answered 9 months ago by Justin Call

As far as I know Rackspace (http://www.rackspace.com/) provide better and cheaper cloud services compared to AWS. You can consider also KickAss VPS http://www.kickassvps.com/ or other smaller clouds.

Answered 9 months ago by Rumen Filkov

For very early-stage companies, there's no reason to over-optimize or over-reach your hosting needs. Most of the large shared companies will do just fine for your MVP and beyond. AWS is great for scale, but that's only significant when you're REALLY far along the scale curve.

The Endurance properties (BlueHost, Bizland, PowWeb) are all on the same platform - it's called "massively-shared" ... one step short of cloud - and works just fine. For people doing framework projects (like Symfony or Django) I'd suggest going with a company that specializes in that framework (it makes support calls go much easier when you don't have to explain what you're doing). Once your company gets rolling there will be time to move to a more robust platform, but the marginal cost of doing so is just not worth it at the beginning.

Answered 9 months ago, Edited 9 months ago by Michael Sattler

I've used GoDaddy hosting for several years and have generally been satisfied with their shared and dedicated server plans. Before that I used Peer1 for a number of dedicated boxes, and they're very good too.

Answered 9 months ago by Daniel Gutierrez

Unless you really need a cloud, there isn't a need to move away from traditional hosting. AWS however is a great platform. Checkout Openshift from redhat too!

Answered 9 months ago by Venkata Kommaraju

i've tried a lot of companies and i found one of them which is the best
in its space, quality and the price it's name is justhost
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Answered 2 months ago by Sandra Dee

From my personal experience i would say http://www.xnynz.com/ is doing good in both hosting and domain registration..Here they are providing hosting in both windows and Linux at low cost with several free extras.They also provides good service and customer support. Regarding more information visit this site..

Answered 2 months ago by Renika Tarun

I use media temple. Amazing 24/7 support.

Answered 6 months ago by Troy Glancy

We've been very happy with Hostmonster.com
for higher end solutions, FireHost is also a good solution.

Answered 6 months ago by Farzad Wafapoor

We recently moved to HubSpot. I definitely recommend you check them out.
They are really a marketing company that really provides fantastic education along with the best customer support I have ever experienced.

Answered 7 months ago by Dave Ogden

There is no absolute "best" hosting platform. It all depends on the requirements for your application. Some questions to consider:

- What stack are you using for your application? Are you LAMP, Rails, Django, Play Framework, PHP, Asp.net? Different hosting platforms have different support.

- How much control do you want to have over all the infrastructure? Platforms like AWS, Rackspace or Voxel gives you complete control, whereas Heroku controls everything for you. Other platforms span the range of control.

- How easy should it be? If I drop you at a linux prompt, can you install nginx on fedora without a problem, or would you prefer a directory where you can FTP php and have it "just work".

- Enterprise support? Do you want to have someone to email or call when things break (and they will)?

- Load and demand. Are you in need of massive scaling now or in the near future, or can your website or web application be happy in a shared hosting environment?

I personally use Heroku or AWS depending on the application requirements, and I don't have many complaints. Your experience will vary. If you share some of your requirements, you'll get a better answer.

Answered 8 months ago by Daniel Bostwick

For Windows hosting I can recommend aspwebhosting.com. Their website is a little underwhelming but the reliability and stability of their service is outstanding.

Answered 9 months ago by Chris Monaghan

Hi Mary-Alice. It really depends on your website needs. Tell me what you need and I would he happy to make a recommendation for you!

Answered 9 months ago by John Pitts

Wow, so many great responses to this question. Thanks for sharing all of these great resources.

Answered 9 months ago by Anne Bachrach