Bluehost testimonial?
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- Daniel Chapman
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- I use Dreamhost mainly.
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www.ninjoomla.com
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- Jandar
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I have both Dreamhost and Hostmonster. HM is a sister company to bluehost. My impressions of both:
Dreamhost
Pros:
1. Web Panel. The thing is amazing. Extreme customizations and easy to use.
2. dreamhoststatus.com and their blog. How many other hosting companies can be so honest?
Cons:
1. Speed. Database and sites are hosted on separate boxes. With the unlimited shared hosting, this slows things down.
2. Email only or webpanel support. NO phone support (unless you REALLY pay for it)
Hostmonster
Pros:
1. Speed. Site and databases are on the same server.
2. 20% CPU usage...effectively keeping the shared hosting more reliable
3. Phone and email support
Cons:
1. Site and database are on the same server.
2. 20% CPU usage. If you have unoptimized scripts or a very busy site, this will kill you. It shuts down your site for 5 minutes.
3. cPanel. I hate the thing!
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- Daniel Chapman
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Lol I love the host monster pros and cons.
Dreamhost does have speed issues at times. But it isn't consistent across servers. I have a personal and business account.
Both are shared hosting but on different servers. The personal account get hellishly slow around midnight my time. But the business one is always bright and chirpy fast.
I also second the Web Panel. I feel dirty using Cpanel after having that.
More pros - Php is run as CGI which means your php user and ftp user are the same, which means no more changing permissions and ownership on files whenever you ftp them!
webpanel support. I actually like this as I don't want to call them even if I could. Timezones and long distance calls are not my friend. -
www.ninjoomla.com
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Over 50 open source extensions and 100 videos to you build the site you want.
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- damo
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i've got an account with bluehost but i also have accounts in quite a few places
never had a problem with bluehost and i keep it for the amount of disk space you get ..
i can strongly recommend www.5quidhost.co.uk - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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- svrsolid
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My accounts are on bluehost and hostmonster. I pulled one site from another host to bluehost. The only rough spot I've had with BlueHost is the 20% cpu thing when they were having server/network issues. Once they resolved both their network throughput and server overloading issues my 20% stuff went back down to the normal blip w/o me changing anything.
BTW the network/server issue appears to have been a spam and DOS problems which appear to be fixed or mitigated. I haven't had a problem in about 9 months.
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- damo
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also. with 5quidhost.com if you visit this page:
www.5quidhost.co.uk/offerorder.php
there is a special where you only pay for 6 months but get 9 months of hosting ... or 18 months for a year at the moment - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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- Thomas Egan
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Since you mentioned dreamhost...
I have been slowly trying to get my joomla sites off of dreamhost. They dont run as snappy on my dreamhost server as they do on my hostgator server. I do like the dreamhost control panel better than the cpanel at hostgator. I know at dreamhost its often recommended in forums to request a new server if the one you are on is slow but I have not bothered doing that. I am very happy with the speed it handles my non-joomla sites (that are also php MySql sites.). I even tried the cache extensions for joomla and they helped a little but when I saw the exact same pages on my hostgator account I stopped blaming myself and my code --- no more guilty feelings!
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- Franck
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Thanks guys for reply.
I have a site where I'm starting to build a community and all users will be allowed to upload images and mp3 files in their profiles. At the moment, I'm at hostgator and have an account with 100Gb space. I know I will be able to upgrade for a better account later but I saw that bluehost offer 300Gb.
A friend purchased an account few days ago at Bluehost and 2 or 3 days after his site was offline for a couple of hours
then I don't know if it's a good hosting choice. I need SPACE and Bandwithd. I like hostgator but I'm curious about another big hosting cia.
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- Danny Holt
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have a look at
www.lunarpages.com/basic-hosting/
I havent used them yet I use 1and1 but I have heard goos things
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