Evaluating Hosting options

extremejava · Post #1 (**permalink**) 02-08-2012, 10:25 PM

Hi,

I had hosted my website at one.com and getting down-time in India and good response when I visit my website from a US based proxy.

Now I am looking to have a single multiple domain (addon domain) web hosting account which has fair latency time across the globe and probably add some CDN to make it fly. Following are some options which I am considering. Please help me evaluate them and let me know in case there are better alternatives available:

1) Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) which is usage based and add Amazon cloudfront or MaxCDN as CDN to it
2) Use HostGator for web hosting and use Amazon Cloudfront or MaxCDN as CDN
3) Use Media Temple as web hosting provider and don't use CDN

My budget for the time being is $10 per month (of course I need to spend more for Media Temple, but will it be comparable to HostGator plus CDN)?

Please advise me.

koddos · Post #2 (**permalink**) 02-09-2012, 05:51 AM

Why do you want to use hosting service from only these companies?

extremejava · Post #3 (**permalink**) 02-09-2012, 06:29 AM

@koddos

This is what I have shortlisted after my research

It will so kind of you if you can suggest some alternative for getting web host with good latency for US and India traffic.

HostHag · Post #4 (**permalink**) 02-09-2012, 02:53 PM

Definitely explore your options because there is more than just those web hosting companies out there. I have done plenty of research, and hostgator is pretty good. Maybe you should go with them. Good luck

b2netsolutions · Post #5 (**permalink**) 02-10-2012, 06:16 AM

Think having no personal experience with those companies, it's hard to say which one is better.

swizzle · Post #6 (**permalink**) 02-10-2012, 11:59 PM

Well, I don't trust unlimited features from Gator, but they have lots of positive reviews and you can give them a try.

agentblack · Post #7 (**permalink**) 02-11-2012, 10:45 PM

I would STRONGLY encourage the OP to do his homework before deciding on a web host. I am not one to sling mud at other companies, so I shall refrain from mentioning names, however, one of those companies I wouldn't let near my old IBM think pad that has an old Pentium 2 800mhz processor that hasn't worked in 5 years.

I say this with first hand knowledge from an employee who used to work for them, not some forum hearsay.

As I always tell people, do your research, ask for references, Google, Google, Google until you cant Google any more! It also doesn't hurt to check the Better Business folks.

Always do your homework when researching companies!

Regards,
AB