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Things To Look For In a Web Hosting Company?

Posted by timothy on from the secret-underground-layer dept.

v1x writes "I have had an account with my current web hosting company for a few years, with 3 domains being hosted there (using Linux/PHP/MySQL). Recently, all three of these websites stopped functioning, and upon checking the site, all my directory structures were intact, whereas all of the files were gone. Upon contacting their technical support, I was given the run-around, and later informed by one of their administrators that none of the files could be restored. Needless to say that I am looking for a different web hosting company at this point, but I would like to make a more informed choice than I did with the current company. I have read a similar Slashdot article (from 2005) on the topic, but the questions posed there were slightly different." Reader mrstrano has a similar question: "I am developing a web application and, after registering the domain, I am now looking for a suitable web hosting provider. It should be cheap enough so I can start small, but should allow me to scale up if the web site is successful (as I hope). The idea is simple enough so I do not need other investors to implement it. This also means that I don't have a lot of money to put on it at the moment. Users of the website will post their pictures (no, it's not going to be a porn website), so scalability might be an issue even with a moderately high number of users. I would like to find a good web hosting provider from day one, so I don't have to go through the pain of a data migration. Which web host would you choose?"

4 of 456 comments (clear)

  1. Cut to the chase picture "website" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're going to run a *chan site..

  2. Web 0.2 by halcyon1234 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So many buzzwords. What's wrong with just putting up a Geocities page like everyone else?

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  3. Re:Make sure you go over the contract very careful by mlawrence · · Score: 1, Funny

    Lawsuits cost money, even if you're in the right.

    You say that again, and I will sue you.

  4. Re:NearlyFreeSpeech.net by clarkkent09 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Read Error. Your request could not connect to the correct web server. This typically occurs as a result of a temporary outage or problem on our network....Generated Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:06:41 GMT by vhost.phx4.nearlyfreespeech.net (squid/2.7.STABLE7)

    I'd expect my hosting company's website to be a bit more immune to slashdotting.

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