Benchmarking Web hosting

On occasion I have a tendency to slag off website hosting providers that give shitty service. It occurred to me that this is a piecemeal approach and it would be worthwhile noting what I get for my money as a benchmark for you to think about.

Note I have two providers , one in the USA, and one in Australia. The USA based provider seems to deliver the website just as fast as the Australian one so having it there is no issue. The USA based provider also answers there phones at 3am, because its not 3am their time and in the middle of the day, I always get though first ring because its actually is 3am their time.

Anyway back to the benchmark. For $100 a year I get:

1. A control panel to manage every aspect of my account; including websites, databases and emails.
2. 300Gb of Space on a shared Unix Computer running the Apache Webserver.
3. 3,000Gb per month of data transfers
4. 2,500 email addresses
5. Unlimited domain names managed (so I can have www.churchillclub.org.au and www.lewisfamily.com.au websites without any additional cost)
6. Unlimited subdomains (meaning I can have a whole lot of websites with names such as http://test.churchillclub.org.au or http://special-event.churchillclub.org.au not just the standard www website)
7. 50 databases
8. Access via the Control Panel, FTP and SSH.
9. True 24/7 Support

Now I’m not going to tell you who I use for two reasons. Firstly I didn’t have to search hard to find multiple providers offering similar deals. Secondly, whenever I recommend a hosting service, someone normally has had a bad experienced with them and immediately wants to tell me I’m wrong and recommend a different provider.

So if the above gets under your skin and you want to have a change, I suggest you have a quick search. When you find someone you like the look of, do another search using their name combined with other words such as “bastards” or “useless” to see what kind of complaints people are making about them. Now everyone has complaints made about them by unhappy customers, but if you can see patterns of complaints then you know what to look out for.

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