Hosting

[tobarstep]

Anyone have any suggestions on good, reliable domain hosting companies? Or perhaps a link to a site that rates/categorizes them?

[Ciderhelm]

Web Hosting provider - Virtual Private Servers (VPS) hosting, Reseller hosting, PHP hosting, cheap web hosting, Ecommerce hosting, Frontpage hosting

The above is a link to KnownHost. They've hosted TankSpot since day 1. Have had nothing but good interaction with them, and they have great reviews on the web.

[veneretio]

Or perhaps a link to a site that rates/categorizes them?

Any site that rates them is inevitably owned by one of the ones listed in the top 5 of each list.

GoDaddy.com is okay... ultimately with any hosting company... back up regularly and often.

[tobarstep]

Thanks, guys. Those both look good. To be honest, given GoDaddy's rather unusual name and their commercials I always thought they were a flash-in-the-pan outfit, but they look really solid.

[Lizana]

godaddy rocks...

Whats great about godaddy is the little personal touches you get. Every month i get a phone call from them, asking am i happy with the service, have i ran into any problems, ect... That with 24 hour a day free phone support, fast stable hosting and cheap means untill they screw me over i wont be hosting anywhere else.

[Temig]

What are you hosting? If it's nothing you need a dedicated server for then I'd take a look @ Host Monster - Web hosting Cheap, great service and one of the few companies that provides SSH access to a virtual server.

[tobarstep]

Thanks Temig. I'm just going to be hosting a blog and some other minor things. I'm mostly using it for my own hacking and something of a learning tool. I'm primarily a desktop developer and I'd like to get some web development experience. I prefer to work in Python though, and I don't see Host Monster offering Python support, unless I just don't know where to look. Possible.

[Temig]

Web Hosting by Host Monster

Right column, 6th from the bottom under the "Bonus Features with all Accounts" heading

Basically, they support just about anything you could ever need.

[tobarstep]

Hrmm... I know I didn't miss something that obvious. I specifically remembered looking in that list, too and all I saw was Perl and Ruby. This does change things though. Thanks!

[Genova]

Ive used godaddy.com for years as far as nameservices go. I use hostmonster for hosting and love it. It has only been down 1 time in the past year, and that was for about an hour.