Thread: Please help me in choosing web hosting

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Hi everyone,
I am sorry for possible offtopic, but I need your help in find new web hosting provider as soon as possible, because my current host (bluehost.com) is kicking me off, they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB (maybe they do not like that?)

Anyway, what would be your recommendations for getting reliable web hosting? Where are you hosting your websites? Are you happy with your providers?

I am now checking hosting24.com - offer looks very nice, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".

What do you think about it? Maybe things have changed in last 4 years? With my current provider I get only 2GB of disk space for $10 per month..
Any ideas and suggestions are much appreciated.

It's called overselling. There is no such thing as unlimited. What happens is the host figures most people will not use more than a couple of megabytes of space, and certainly not anywhere near the bandwidth.

About the server resources: What that means is your site is using a lot of CPU share and memory share and it's dragging down the server. You get very little at shared hosting. I had the same problem, with a site that is mostly html, and a blog that only had 5-10 visitors a day!

Needless to say, I left them and forced a refund. If your site is using php and MySQL databases, that's the biggest problem. And it's not so much the visitors, it's spam bots and other intrusion attempts that are killing you and eating up the resources, 90% of the time. That's what happened with mine.

Two places I can recommend are Hostgator and DowntownHost. Both are reputable, ethical, and their service is great. If you're like me and get fed up with shared hosting, you might want to look into a managed VPS with KnownHost. Their service is next to none, and I mean no one. With a VPS, you don't disturb the neighbors and they don't disturb you. And managed like Knownhost does it, you don't really have to learn anything, other than how to create your accounts.

Three to stay away from are 1and1 (they have downtime issues), Lunarpages (support sucks, can't get to control panel), dreamhost (oversellers), and crissic solutions (run by a 15 year old. Seriously).

If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.