Would You Recommend Your Hosting Company?

July 17th, 2006 Davis Posted in Uncategorized |

I came across an interesting post on Wigley and Associates Leadership Blog talking about their experience with his hosting company Tiger Technologies. Normally, these articles are pretty negative because typically you only write about hosting companies when things go wrong, but Wigley actually takes the time out to write about how great Tiger Tech really is.

I appreciate this because my experiences with hosting companies hasn’t always been positive and while it’s easy to find hosting companies to avoid, sometimes it’s hard knowing what you are getting into before you have a chance to experience the service first hand. When I set up this blog, I spent a lot of time looking at different hosting companies and ultimately settled on a company called BlueHost. I choose BlueHost primarily because they offered easy integration with Wordpress, but I also liked that by hosting with them, they give you a free domain registration, as well as offering hosting for 6 different domains on the same plan. This is really nice if you have more then one site that you work on, but don’t necessarily need the bazooka bandwidth for all of the sites.

As DFDC continues to develop, I hope to start working with a few other blogs focused on other areas, so this solution made a lot of sense to me. It’s only been a few weeks that I’ve used BlueHost, but I would certainly recommend them to my readers at this point. Every call into their service center has been treated professionally and they even followed up with me to make sure that everything was set up right. The only downside so far was that the site went offline for a little bit this weekend, after they lost power at their server farm and the backup generator didn’t last long enough for them to fix the issue.

I’m interested in knowing about the other hosting companies out there and whether or not my readers would recommend their own hosting solution. Have your experiences been as positive as BlueHost or Tiger Tech or have you dealt with slow email delivery times, unstable hostings and bad customer service. Hopefully, by sharing my experience with others, people can know what to look for and what to look out for.