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HostMonster – A great host for beginners with small sites
As GoodWebPractices grew in popularity and a number of posts like ‘10 Epic Website Failures’ and ‘20 Digg users revealed’ received thousands of visitors a day through sites like Digg and StumbleUpon, I had to move away from HostMonster to a server that could support spikes in traffic. HostMonster told me that if I didn’t move the site, they would close my account because HostMonster was ‘for small sites’!
MediaTemple – Able to withstand spikes in traffic but slow and not very secure
At $20 per month for the base package, MediaTemple was considerably more expensive than HostMonster, but GoodWebPractices had out grown HostMonster and we needed a host that could deal with spikes in traffic. Moving over to MediaTemple was relatively straight forward, and in similarity to HostMonster, it was possible to host multiple domains and run up to 100 instances of Joomla, WordPress or Drupal on the same account. For the year that GoodWebPractices was hosted at MediaTemple I was relatively happy. In 2009, the main problem I had with MediaTemple was that the server was quite slow and page load time was too high. I changed a number of settings in Joomla to help make the Joomla load quicker, but still the load time was higher than I would have liked. I did contact the MediaTemple’s technical support about this, but they didn’t help solve the problem. In June 2010 I had a much more significant problem that pushed me away from MediaTemple... On June 15th 2010, I received an email from Google alerting me that GoodWebPractices had been hacked and was being used to host phishing content. A bit of research showed that the hackers had got into GoodWebPractices.com through another site hosted within the same account as GoodWebPractices. All the sites that were hosted within the same account on the MediaTemple server had been compromised. Unfortunately MediaTemple were unable to help in securing the websites and it became apparent that I needed to find a more secure host which offered excellent support. VPS.net – Scalable, fast and secure: An excellent choice for bigger Joomla sites with bigger budgets
I got in contact with the team over at VPS.net and they assured me that they would help with the transfer. With help from Tim Stiffler Dean and Brian Teeman I cleaned up the Joomla database and files which had been hacked. VPS.net then installed cPanel for me and setup the database and I transferred the relevant files. After a few days, everything was up and running, and it was noticeably faster than when it was hosted with MediaTemple. In the screenshot below from Google Webmaster Tools, you can see how page load time has reduced following the move over to VPS.net on the 5th of July.
Quick summary of why I chose VPS.net
So who are you hosted with? Is your Joomla host fast and secure?Please share your thoughts and experience with us in the comments below. Comments (18)
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FANTASTIC article. Seriously, this is exactly what I was hoping to stumble across tonight. I'm currently hosting 10 Joomla sites on HostMonster and it's so slow I can hardly stand it. I have my highest traffic Joomla site hosted on a VPS over at WebbyNode but using a cloud VPS and command prompt is difficult for someone who has been using Cpanel the last 5 years and they don't offer a CPanel, though I'm sure I could install one myself. I will definitely look into VPS.net. Do they make it easy? How is the setup compared to Hostmonster? Thank you so much.
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This review of VPS.net is not correct. They do not have phone support.
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