Is It Time to Migrate to Web Hosting

@scottalanmiller They had few recent outages based on Facebook and twitter. Plus this yesterday http://forums.asmallorange.com/topic/18550-closed-dallas-cloud-partial-outage/

Some more http://forums.asmallorange.com/forum/2-hosting-status/

Here's hostgator's http://forums.hostgator.com/network-status-f14.html

scottalanmiller

I want to start my own hosting provider called A Small Potato.

scottalanmiller

I have also been thinking about this. I host about 5 different WordPress sites, but I am not sure where they should be at.

scottalanmiller

How high is the volume on them aggregated? That $5 ASO account looks pretty awesome.

I few hundred, not much. I have been on ASO before, but I don't like their panel, or their auto wordpress installs.

gjacobse

Are any of the sites for Non Profits? Grassroots.org will get a NPO set up with Bluehost for nothing.

I have Host Monster and have not had any reportable issues. The pricing is decent.. Bluehost and Host monster are 'sister' companies...

The big question for me is do I want to have shared hosting (less control, fully managed) or a VPS (much more control, headaches when something brakes)

I have been on HostGator for the last 3 years, and have never had downtime. However part of me really enjoys managing a VPS....

Price wise, it's about a wash $5 - $10 dollars a month gives me much more then I need.

@g.jacobse said:

Are any of the sites for Non Profits? Grassroots.org will get a NPO set up with Bluehost for nothing.

I have Host Monster and have not had any reportable issues. The pricing is decent.. Bluehost and Host monster are 'sister' companies...

I've heard nothing but bad things about Bluehost in recent years. Similar to this http://www.wpsitecare.com/why-wordpress-org-should-stop-endorsing-bluehost/

This is very interesting.....

http://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/computing/

Does DeamHost take monthly payments now? They use to only take annual payments.

IRJ

@Aaron-Studer said:

Does DeamHost take monthly payments now? They use to only take annual payments.

they do

scottalanmiller

@Aaron-Studer said:

Does DeamHost take monthly payments now? They use to only take annual payments.

Looks like monthly to me.

scottalanmiller

@Aaron-Studer said:

This is very interesting.....

http://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/computing/

Standard cloud. OpenStack and CEPH. Almost identical to Rackspace. Similar to CloudatCost, except they are on VMware. Same pricing as Digital Ocean.

@Aaron-Studer said:

Does DeamHost take monthly payments now? They use to only take annual payments.

From what I remember you got to use the service free for 90days then after than could chose to pay for a whole year of hosting (plus the 90 days you already did) or cancel. There was a monthly price, but no monthly payments.

@thecreativeone91 Right, that is how I remember it too, but it looks like it is monthly now.

With everyone moving to monthly, it would be hard for them not to be monthly.

Dashrender

What exactly are you offloading to the hosting provider in these cases? Let's assume you're running Wordpress, do they take care of updating the OS and Wordpress for new releases and bug fixes? Are these the primary concern that you want off your plate?

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

What exactly are you offloading to the hosting provider in these cases? Let's assume you're running Wordpress, do they take care of updating the OS and Wordpress for new releases and bug fixes? Are these the primary concern that you want off your plate?

With DreamHost, yes. Updates, cache, backups, etc.

@Dashrender WIth shared hosting, you offload almost everything.