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The trouble with web hosting, is that everyone thinks they can do it. And in fact everyone can. Even a school kid can set up a reseller account for some host or other and in true Internet style “appear” to be a multi staffed data centre with 4 separate and redundant gigabit pipes to the backbone.

And that’s dandy until something doesn’t work, you have a question, or you need to do something beyond the normal.

But the bigger issue, is WHO is behind the real core and are they any good?

Hosts who should stick to brewery tours:
Many people are Fasthosts resellers. Fasthosts are one of the biggest UK hosts and IMHO from my personal experiences with them, one of the absolute worst hosts on the planet. I would not touch them with a barge pole. Even if it was 100% free, I would not use them! Yes I have that much venom for them.

Also they are not cheap. Unlimited bandwidth soon turns in to “reasonable use” policies and extra surcharges for MySQL database/storage start to creep in as soon as you want to do anything useful. And unlimited storage turns in to, but only if it is linked directly to a web page (aka a picture), so straight “file hosting” or off-line backup space, is out.

These things may change, from now when I write about them, but these are the sort of “games” Fasthsost plays. If your needs are minor, and you never need support, and you don’t mind if your site goes down, then you may get on with them fine. Good luck with that.

I’ve been hosting sites on the Internet for over 12 years now, and I’ve gone through a LOT of hosts! The bottom line is, as with all of life, every one is crap. It’s a law of averages. Everyone will muck it up wholesale at some point.

The difference is, some of us try to learn, improve and respond to those issues, and remain “contactable”, while others don’t!
Some don’t even care. If they lose 10% of their clients through neglect or abuse, they don’t care, because there is always another NEW 10% coming. Or that’s what they “think” any way…

Another huge problem with hosting is that it is highly competitive and hosts tend to offer simply unstainable deals with ridiculous amounts of storage and bandwidth and features.

One deal I had was “LIFETIME” (yes life time) free hosting of 1MB with unlimited bandwidth for a one off payment of $5. Well, that lasted 2 years and then I guess one of us died, because they went overnight with no warning and my website data with it. (Yes you see, backing up IS important! Web hosts are not your personal data stores.).

And I still can’t recommend a host!

I used to have an affilaite link to WebHostingBuzz and I did ineed use them myself.

But they proved to be highly ineffective. It’s pot luck which sahred server you get put on, and soem of them, despite supposely having raid arrays, still have disk failures which take then down for literally 8 hours. 1 hour is common, but 8 hours once, not joking.

So even though I could make money recomending them as an affiliate, I absolute do not.

Avoid web hosting buzz.

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