Do you have your own websites? Can you recommend good hosting?

I have two and moderate a third. I'm checking with the host on some details, I'll get back to you as soon as he gets back to me.

Okay, I have a small outfit that hosts my sites. Service and uptime has been 100% and you get your tech support from the owner so no screwing around with outsourcing and voice mail and all that crap.

If you're interested, email me at the address in my profile and I'll hook you up with him.

A can offer only limited advice. I do websites for my own firearms instruction website and other non-profits I have worked with.

Do not choose Site5 hosting. They were top notch and then got bought out. CS went down hill ... as well as their English capabilities. Russian spammers invaded the shared server and it took 3 months for any action.

I switched in 2018 to inmotionhosting and have been pleased so far. More expensive and less perks, but responsive and English chatting support.

The "good hosting" question really involves knowing what your requirements are and meeting the needs of those requirements. Business sites have different needs than a simple blog or forum site.

For WordPress sites, I offer my own hosting to clients. (This is what I do full time.)

Here are some tips how to choose web hosting: know which type of hosting you need, determine what type of site you’re building, understand which and how many resources you require, understand how web hosting pricing works, think ahead: choose a host with which you can grow. Also I recommend to monitor your website work with this special service to avoid problems with it availability. It is very important nowadays, especially for business websites.

I’ve had nothing but good luck with Godaddy for my site.

I've heard good things about digital ocean.

I used Namecheap and was happy with the price and addons.

https://www.siteground.com/ has worked well for me.

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Originally posted by dry-fly:
I’ve had nothing but good luck with Godaddy for my site.

Not to throw the Danica-lovers under the bus, but I HAVE had problems with GoDaddy. We were using a cheaper shared-IP plan, and one of the 80 or so other sites being hosted on the same IP address got hacked and started sending out all sorts of spam. Well, the block-lists quickly picked this up and added the IP address to their databases. That meant anyone using the block lists (which are very common tools used in spam filtering) was also blocking any mail from our domain or any others on the shared IP. It took a couple calls to convince GoDaddy to do something. Rather than doing anything about the hacked site, they switched us to a more expensive dedicated IP plan and gave us one year of that service free. Then I had to spend even more of my time getting our site off the various blacklists it was on. Very annoying.

While they did do something, eventually, they started out by saying there was nothing they could do and the only solution was for us to upgrade to a more expensive plan. It also bothered me that, when notified, they did nothing to shut down the site that had been hacked and was blasting out spam.

They aren't so bad I'd say no one should ever use them, but their support for the lower-cost plans seems to be, "Look it up on the website, or switch to a more expensive plan."

- Bret

This is the same guy that posted a question about blogging back in May and didn't reply. Seems like someone if fishing for something.

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...910028444#8910028444

Seems fishy.

I have had a web presence since 1995. My web host is the same ISP who once ran a BBS system in the 80s. Solid, robust, secure, reliable.

That's what you want in a web hosting service.

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there was nothing they could do and the only solution was for us to upgrade to a more expensive plan.

I've heard that quite a few times from GoDaddy, hence I would never suggest their hosting. I don't even use them for domain names anymore ... too much marketing crap to wade through.

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Originally posted by steve495:
I've heard that quite a few times from GoDaddy, hence I would never suggest their hosting. I don't even use them for domain names anymore ... too much marketing crap to wade through.

I am a long time GoDaddy customer, but have grown increasing disenchanted with their services. They gave me a good price on the web hosting, with a significant discount if I paid for 5 years. So I am locked into that until 2021, and I'm not prepared to eat that and move it for my tiny hosting needs. I did move all of my email and domain name registrations to OpenSRS (a Tucows company), and much prefer them for those services. They are much more professional, as well as being a long time registrar. I have time to shop around for web hosting. One of the shooting clubs I belong to moved their hosting a couple of years ago to InMotion hosting, and they are quite happy with the uptime and support. I am, too, as a client. It is more suited to a business class of hosting, though.