Comments on: A New Host

By: Clarence Odbody

Clarence Odbody — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:35:24 +0000

I’ve had no trouble at all with asmallorange, and their rates are very good. I believe they meet all your qualifications, including rails and root access.
Support is quick to respond. Two days before Chrirstmas, at 9 o’clock at night, I decided to register a new site and set up hosting there. Before 10pm it was completely set up and active, and the domain reachable. It cost me $25 total for the year(!)
(That’s their Tiny plan, which is for small, low-traffic sites.)

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:14:21 +0000

I have used Dream Host for a couple of years now, and they’ve really only had 1 or 2 outages that were aggravating. But for the price they can’t be beat. You can actually browse through their outage notices at http://status.dreamhost.com/ to get an idea of what you’d be dealing with, the staff posts about them there.

By: Matt P.

Matt P. — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:51:45 +0000

I’ve used tektonic.net for three years and it has been great. Fifteen bucks gets you a virtual server with root access. Also, I hear slicehost.com is also very good…

By: Paul Brown

Paul Brown — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:59:07 +0000

Why not go with a virtual server? I’ve been happy with Linode and JohnCompanies for different applications, both running Linux on virtual machines. Both have good support, and both have a 100% success rate in terms of no one that I’ve made the recommendation to coming back to complain to me about it…

By: Joseph E. Davis

Joseph E. Davis — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:09:39 +0000

We used DreamHost for a while, but the reliability wasn’t there. Switched to HostMonster in the summer, and so far, it’s been much better.

By: Chris W

Chris W — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:03:42 +0000

I have Dreamhost and while it is nice to play with, I wouldn’t put up a website that needs good uptime.

By: Jason R Briggs

Jason R Briggs — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:36:51 +0000

I’m using WebFaction for my main website, which I’ve found really good. It has shell access (not root though), and you’ve got the flexibility to either use their tools to install apps or (as I’ve done with WordPress) install them yourself. Another site, I’m running on Linode, which you might want to consider if you want virtualized root access. Not sure about backups though. I tend to write scripts to backup stuff myself…