Who's your web hosting company?

[AtomicSpark]

Do you have a website? If so, where is your website hosted at? My contract is running out on one of my websites and I'm looking around for something better.

Currently I'm at www.siteground.com. They're pretty good for $5/mo, but they lack SSH and SFTP. So your shared hosting turns into Geocities. Blah.

A guy in IRC suggested www.dreamhost.com. They seem to have a lot more features for a little bit more a month. Of course I've never heard of them, so I'm looking for another opinion.

 

[Pesmerga]

bigdaddy for my stepdad's site

 

[Vegeta897]

nearlyfreespeech.net - good (read: ****ing great) for small low bandwidth sites.

1&1 - 3 or 4 bucks a month for 300gb of bandwidth per month. Free domain name included, 10 mysql, pretty much all you need for a fairly big site.

 

[Evo]

I'm with Blue Host who have done me pretty well so far

 

[Druckles]

I've piggy-backed my companies server.

 

[Eejit]

Wooo Weee

Party Town Ahoy

There isn't much I can do about it, though!

 

[Fliko]

I was on ixwebhosting.com and I loved it (Kind've lacking features in the smaller packages but their support is amazing, site was always amazingly fast, and I had extremely little downtime in a year.).
The only thing I don't like about them is how they still send me emails saying I'm their customer.

Basically, you have to pay more, but the service and everything like that is absolutely amazing. (Don't use the site builder though, that's absolute shit.)

 

[Krynn72]

hostmonster.com is the one I use. Its got retarded amounts of bandwidth, but its kinda slow. And you pay in lump sum for however many years you want it.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Most of the websites you have mentioned oversell horribly. You cannot get 100GB storage and 100TB of data per month for $4.99. That is just impossible. I just haven't decided what to do yet.

I've found a good website on website related topics, webmaster-talk.com. They have a "Useful Hosting Resources" sticky that you should all read.

 

[-Psy-]

www.plugandhost.co.uk

Shameless plug of my friend's site.

 

[Vegeta897]

Thread:

AtomicSpark: Hey guys what web hosts do you use, I'm looking for a new one
Pesmerga: *helps*
Vegeta: *helps*
Evo: *helps*
Fliko: *helps*
Krynn: *helps*
AtomicSpark: All of those are complete shit, and you should all read this because you're all ****ing idiots when it comes to choosing a web host, apparantly.

Oh you're welcome AtomicSpark.

 

[Raziaar]

I disagree with everything Vegeta said.

 

[Vegeta897]

Raziaar is lying.

 

[Beerdude26]

I always stab people who ask tricky questions.

 

[DreamThrall]

I use www.discountasp.net. $10/mo or $7.50/mo if you pay for a year up front. They're pretty awesome if you use .NET, but obviously not very useful if you're a phptard.

My only annoyance so far is that their e-mail service uses greylisting, which I suppose is both a blessing and a curse... I hardly ever get spam, but e-mails get delayed by like 30 mins if I haven't whitelisted the domain/address.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Thread:

AtomicSpark: Hey guys what web hosts do you use, I'm looking for a new one
Pesmerga: *helps*
Vegeta: *helps*
Evo: *helps*
Fliko: *helps*
Krynn: *helps*
AtomicSpark: All of those are complete shit, and you should all read this because you're all ****ing idiots when it comes to choosing a web host, apparantly.

Oh you're welcome AtomicSpark.

I lol'd. I'd say it's a tie between bluehost.com and hostgater.com. Or I could just lose interest and stay with siteground.com.

I use www.discountasp.net. $10/mo or $7.50/mo if you pay for a year up front. They're pretty awesome if you use .NET, but obviously not very useful if you're a phptard.

My only annoyance so far is that their e-mail service uses greylisting, which I suppose is both a blessing and a curse... I hardly ever get spam, but e-mails get delayed by like 30 mins if I haven't whitelisted the domain/address.

PHPtard? Are you serious? Are you some kind of Microsoft fanboy that has to have everything Microsoft? Windows Server, Active Directory, IIS, and more? I'm not getting into this discussion...

 

[Pesmerga]

i halped

 

[DreamThrall]

I lol'd. I'd say it's a tie between bluehost.com and hostgater.com. Or I could just lose interest and stay with siteground.com.

PHPtard? Are you serious? Are you some kind of Microsoft fanboy that has to have everything Microsoft? Windows Server, Active Directory, IIS, and more? I'm not getting into this discussion...

Yup! Don't forget SQL Server 2005, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, etc

 

[Krynn72]

My webhost was CNETs #1 host when I signed up, so stuff it.

 

[DreamThrall]

Because I can't help trolling:

http://www.bitstorm.org/edwin/en/php/

 

[AtomicSpark]

http://www.google.com/search?q=asp+vs+php

PHP seems to win.

[/thread]

 

[Vegeta897]

http://www.google.com/trends?q=asp%2C+php


Yep.

 

[Pesmerga]

http://www.google.com/trends?q=gay,+php&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

 

[DreamThrall]

"ASP", as in ASP 3.0 (which is what most of the articles in that search are referring to) is an 8 year old language, and imo, just as bad as PHP. It's also not what I'm talking about.

http://codebetter.com/blogs/karlseguin/archive/2006/11/26/Is-PHP-the-new-VB6_3F00_.aspx

From my own experience, and the countless of online tutorials and blogs, many PHP developers are guilty of the same crap code VB developers were once renowned for. OO, N-Tier, exception handling, domain modeling, refactoring and unit testing are all foreign concepts in the PHP world.

http://loveandtheft.org/2008/05/20/php-is-the-new-vb6-in-a-c-dress/

Every solution I've ever seen or developed in PHP feels clunky and bulky, there is no elegance or grace. Working with PHP is a bit like throwing a 10 pound concrete cube from a ten story building: You'll get where you're going fast, but it’s not very elegant. ... I love PHP, and it's the right tool for some jobs. It’s just an ugly, cumbersome tool that makes me cry and have nightmares. It’s the new VB6 in a C dress.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001119.html

I've written both VB and PHP code, and in my opinion the comparison is grossly unfair to Visual Basic. Does PHP suck? Of course it sucks. It's a galactic supernova of incomprehensibly colossal, mind-bendingly awful suck. If you sit down to program in PHP and have even an ounce of programming talent in your entire body, there's no possible way to draw any other conclusion. It's inescapable.

But, alas...

Some of the largest sites on the internet -- sites you probably interact with on a daily basis -- are written in PHP. If PHP sucks so profoundly, why is it powering so much of the internet?

The only conclusion I can draw is that building a compelling application is far more important than choice of language. While PHP wouldn't be my choice, and if pressed, I might argue that it should never be the choice for any rational human being sitting in front of a computer, I can't argue with the results.

You've probably heard that sufficiently incompetent coders can write FORTRAN in any language. It's true. But the converse is also true: sufficiently talented coders can write great applications in terrible languages, too. It's a painful lesson, but an important one.

Why fight it? I say learn to embrace it. Join with me, won't you, in celebrating the next fifty years of glorious PHP code driving the internet. Just don't forget to call the maintain_my_will_to_live() PHP function every so often!