Opinion Needed - Best Webhosting Site

[carton253]

I'm seeking advice on the best webhosting site. Presently, I'm on Intuit and not happy. Any advice and opinion will be welcome.

[Captain Beyond]

bflr

[gunsmithkat]

I have used http://www.Eapps.com to host two sites for several years. One runs under J2EE and JSF, the other runs PHP. Excellent service. Many different size plans to suit your business requirements.

[Drago]

Have been using http://www.pair.com/ for years...not the cheapest but solid service & support. Based in Pittsburgh, PA.

[fedupjohn]

I'm on Arvixe.com for my business hosting. Were using DotNetNuke on a Windows Platform and there great.

Sql Server Data Bases max out at 10GB on the shared hosting. $10.00 unlimited file size, data bases and band width and their lightning quick compared to GoDaddy.

[driftdiver]

yeah but at least they give you the names of the companies

[montag813]

FreeRepublic’s hosting service is top notch. They use a Commodoore 64 with 128k RAM upgrade over a 1200 baud modem.

[DanMiller]

Obviously, it all depends on what you want. I've been using WordPress, hosted at wordpress.com, for almost a year. It is free, the software gets updated automatically, is very easy to use and there is great flexibility in how the site looks. Mine has just the appearance I want. If you want to look, it's here.

The only disadvantage is that you can't put up advertisements; WordPress can put some up but unless you have lots and lots of hits daily doesn't seem to do so. That is not a problem for me.

[carton253]

I want to thank everyone for your help. You've given me lots of options and I appreciate you taking the time to help me.

Thank you again!

[carton253]

I want to thank everyone for your help. You've given me lots of options and I appreciate you taking the time to help me.

Thank you again!

[numberonepal]

Hostica.com
I’ve been with them 15 years.
Excellent prices. Good support.

[2ndamendmentpa]

I’ll second HostGator - they have always been very solid. Good CPanel hosting with Fantastico and QuickInstall (which both install a big selection of Blogs, CMS, CRM, Content Management, Mailing list, etc...).

[RegulatorCountry]

Do you do ecommerce?

I'm looking at setting up an e-commerce site involving custom apparel, and I've been impressed by BigCommerce, http://www.bigcommerce.com If anyone has feedback on that one positive or negative, I'd be very interested in hearing about it, I'm just about to go with it. Need speed and simplicity, and am not in a position to drop thousands on a custom site design. That can come later.

[2ndamendmentpa]

How many products and how do you plan on handling transactions?

PayPal isnt a bad way to get started. You can always ditch them if you reach a certain volume of sales.

For sure - dont spend on “design.” Most of todays big Content Management Systems come with nice themes - that can be customized enough to appear unique.

[Scoutmaster]

yeah but at least they give you the names of the companies

Those companies pay a fee to have themselves listed as top web-hosting companies. They're marketing companies perhaps more than web-hosting companies (as is Go Daddy). Many of them make their money from buy and selling (and hoarding and stashing) domain names. They're the companies that check whois to see when domains are going to expire and send out 'official' letters four months before expiration, offering to renew your domain for $149 (when your domain's set automatically to renew for $9.99).

At the link I posted, you'll find bluehost and oneandone, which appear to be the two most frequently mentioned hosting companies named by FR members on this post.

They're professional companies. They don't pay all of the "The Best Hosting Company" websites to list them. They're not companies with a few servers somewhere paying somebody to drive business to them. They're massive companies with thousand and thousands of shared and dedicated servers, and US-based technical support, with software packages for the beginner and support for every kind of server-side programming for the expert of experts.

[driftdiver]

I know exactly what they are. Perhaps you don’t find them useful, thats fine. They provide a list of companies to look at, get over it.

[Baynative]

Tried GoDaddy ...NO MAS

[RegulatorCountry]

Two tiers of products, custom and stock. Custom would have four basic styles with at least twenty body colors and nearly unlimited colors for graphics. These would be knitted, not embroidered, heatsealed, silkscreened or sublimated. Stock would ultimately have hundreds of SKUs but less than twenty at present.

I have a design background but just do not have the time to pull all that together and get going in time, I’ve got a pending sale already on custom, a bulk order, and have really not even developed the logo yet. So I need fast, easy and reliable, to get a stable, easy to use and administer site that provides a good customer experience as well.

It’ll be both retail and wholesale, too, so having a protected “portal” type of thing to prevent exposing wholesale prices to retail customers will be necessary.

BigCommerce appears to provide that. AmeriCommerce does, too. Several others that sound as if there would be either an admin nightmare or an execution nightmare. Neither costs more than about $25.00 a month for hosting, shopping cart, merchant account, etcetera unless I’m misunderstanding (and it’s entirely possible that I am, since I’ve never really dealt with the nuts and bolts end of making a site function, I’ve just done the photos, logos, copy, design concepts, that sort of thing).

[ottbmare]

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[leapfrog0202]