Any good web hosting sites?

[dqmot17]

Originally Posted by keehun

I've heard good things about HostGator. I've also heard amazing things about 1&1 UNTIL there's a problem. Unless you get "LUCKY" there is virtually no customer support.

MediaTemple is expensive because it deserves to be. The biggest testament is when I called customer support and the guy remembered me. I don't call them that much, I don't consider it creepy, rather, I consider it as good and amazing customer service reps who are passionate to work with you. They will run tests on your servers, they will set up "hello world" apps on your ruby/python services to show you how its deployed, etc. They debug your code and notify you when you tax the system abnormally, instead of closing your account... etc. By the way, MediaTemple admin panel is amazing...

Though, for sake of bang for buck, I'd go with DreamHost or HostGator... or again, Team 2502 will host you on our MediaTemple service..

See? I love them...

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by jph399

Hi,
We are in the process of remaking our team website entirely from scratch (HTML), and I was wondering if anybody knows a good web hosting site they like in particular, and for what reasons?

-Preferably free but payed is okay.
-Very reliable
-Efficient web server
-Lots of available memory

If it doesn't match these descriptions still please post your recommendation.

Thank you

You have more guts than me. I wouldn't do a whole site for an FRC team from scratch. Admittedly, I do websites for a living so the less time I can spend messing with HTML/CSS the happier I will be. Personally, I would use a CMS for the majority of your site. Not only does it allow you to spend more time on content (which is more important than being a custom designed thing) but it allows you to offload some of the content generation to other people. But don't let me sound like I am saying DON'T do it, just proposing an alternative.

Originally Posted by ebarker

They were good and cheap for things like simple sites but if you did a CMS like joomla it could not handle it. They had the database servers and web servers on different machines and it didn't work well. From midnight to 5 am it ran okay but as their overall traffic picked up the db servers really

I have to comment here, having your web server and your database on separate boxes should make very little difference. Where I work our database is on several different boxes and the limit is not the connection between the database and the server it was the amount of data one can cram down and internet tube. I'm not saying you are wrong in saying GoDaddy did not work for you but I do feel that perpetuating a rumor that having two different machines somehow impacts performance negatively would be wrong.


Sorry this post doesn't add any new hosting services.

[Chris is me]

While I've never hosted an FRC website with it, I've heard good things about FellowSites. Great support from a not-for-profit business with a customizable plan and flexible payment.

[nukemknight]

An old member of team 616 has a server with Dreamhost and offers free hosting to FRC teams. Go to http://www.usfirsthost.com/ to contact him about setting something up. He currently hosts 6 teams there.

[Abigail]

Hi Everyone..

I have recently join this site and I have find lots of nice websites for webhosting.
Would you mind to let us know more about webhosting? Thanks!