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NTG used to use Rackspace but got better performance and features at a fraction of the cost self-hosting. So that's what we have done for years. We host a lot of sites and apps, so it makes a bit of sense for us. And we own a rather substantial infrastructure.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Why don't you look at a bigger one.. Rackspace, Dreamhost, Hostgator, JustHost are the usually ones if you are only doing webhosting. Rackspace will be expensive though.
DreamHost was in my mind but I could not remember the name.
Haven't heard of people using HostGator, do you have direct feedback on them?
Don't know JustHost.
I used to use HostGator for years. For the companies I worked for it's been either Dreamhost or JustHost.. Dreamhost being much better though.
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So it sounds like DreamHost would be your "go to" standard web hosting choice?
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I gotta have CPanel hosting.
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@IRJ said:
I gotta have CPanel hosting.
Dreamhost uses a custom control panel that offers everything cpanel does and works fine. Cpanel is crazy expensive, so that may be why some hosts lack in support that have it
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I've never seen enterprise hosting using cPanel. I thought that that was almost exclusively used by little, nobody providers who couldn't make their own interface. cPanel to me is the web hosting equivalent of the little "kid in his parents' basement" ISPs of the early 1990s. You know, the sixteen year olds who bought a single T1 and a bunch of modems and called themselves an ISP and went down all the time and never worked. cPanel is that 2001 webhosting equivalent. So people with one desktop and a fast home connection can run their own "enterprise looking" web host without having to know how to actually do it.
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Not that I see that many hosts, but I know that Rackspace and MediaTemple don't use cPanel either. Do any big players use it? Seems that it would make it not cost effective at large scale once you have adequate staff.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
I gotta have CPanel hosting.
Why is that? What does CPanel offer?
I happen to like the interface and there are alot of tutorials on how to do different things
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Godaddy uses Cpanel on linux or Plesk for windows and they are just about the worst host out there.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Godaddy uses Cpanel on linux or Plesk for windows and they are just about the worst host out there.
Makes sense
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@IRJ said:
I happen to like the interface and there are alot of tutorials on how to do different things
It's a nice interface. But I think most of the big hosts are better.
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@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
I gotta have CPanel hosting.
Why is that? What does CPanel offer?
I happen to like the interface and there are alot of tutorials on how to do different things
What do you need to do that's that complicated? web hosting is pretty trivial. even with no panel, you only need to know a minimal ammount of commands and sql.
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I've always wondered this myself. Since I do most of my hosting via SSH to Linux and there is pretty much nothing to be done, I'm curious what benefits cPanel brings. Mostly you just copy files and set up new databases, right?
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I have heard good things about DreamHost. They seem like a good place to look.
For us we need special hosting that most of those cannot offer. So we look at hosts like Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, Joyent and OpenShift.
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I am looking at Dreamhost. I am not looking forward to moving my website from one host to another, though
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I saw DreamHost has SSD drives for all their webhosting plans. Think that will make a big difference in page load times?
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@IRJ Some. But many hosts are doing this. It depends on how much load is on the shared storage. Ram plays a role in apache fetching pages as well as SQL queries.
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@IRJ said:
I saw DreamHost has SSD drives for all their webhosting plans. Think that will make a big difference in page load times?
Not a lot. Web servers rarely hit the disks.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
I saw DreamHost has SSD drives for all their webhosting plans. Think that will make a big difference in page load times?
Not a lot. Web servers rarely hit the disks.
Especially since I used caching on my site.
