bradleyscott
New member
I am new to the hosting arena. I am a graphic designer who usually codes in PHP and uses MySQL. I used to just use a hosting service that I have built a relationship up with over the years and they have served me well.
They recently had no choice but to sell their business based on economic reasons, since then, my hosting experiences with the new local company have not been great and they do not provide the support I was once used to.
I am not completely familiar with using dedicated servers as the host before the sale used to allow me practically any usage I needed as long as what I was putting up was being used and not just wasting space. I am only familiar with Apache in the sense that I have it installed on both my PCs to use for development purposes. Other than that, I have no commercial experience messing with servers.
Part of the reason I am not looking for a dedicated server is that I am now unable to just request modules I need and have them installed, they don't do that anymore, so what they have as a base setup is what I get.
My Main questions I can think of now are (and feel free to add anything else that might be helpfull)
1.) Can I host multiple sites on a dedicated server and how many are typically allowed, and how many ip addresses allowed (I know it varies, but do most of them have a limit in your experiences)?
2.) Can I configure the server the way I need the server configured...adding PHP modules, etc?
3.) What company has given you the best: Deal, Support, Overall Server Service (uptime, hassle, etc)?
4.) What hardware is usually the best. I am not completely familiar with the best setups on these things. (things like FSB etc, I only truly know about what processors fair well and that is on consumer pcs not servers).
Those are the few things I can think of right off the top of my head. I am not looking for people to break the no advertisements rule, just regular people who don't own a host telling me what their experiences with some companies have been. I was thinking of Sagonet but the horror story on another thread may keep me away from them, although I will not count them out. Also, Layered Tech is another one I have seen.
I am trying to stay away from companies that have deals that seem too good to be true only because they wind up being too good to be true. I am not looking for anything huge at this point as I want a server that can keep small to medium company websites running well with an option to later expand to a bigger server if needed. (which brings me to a new question, do they have upgrade packages where you can move to a bigger server down the line and how does the transfer usually fare on something like that?).
I think that is about it right now, all suggestions and thoughts will be looked at as I am learning a lot here. This is proving to be a great resource and I learn more and more everytime I look at a new post and I have only been here for a few hours.
Thanks guys.
They recently had no choice but to sell their business based on economic reasons, since then, my hosting experiences with the new local company have not been great and they do not provide the support I was once used to.
I am not completely familiar with using dedicated servers as the host before the sale used to allow me practically any usage I needed as long as what I was putting up was being used and not just wasting space. I am only familiar with Apache in the sense that I have it installed on both my PCs to use for development purposes. Other than that, I have no commercial experience messing with servers.
Part of the reason I am not looking for a dedicated server is that I am now unable to just request modules I need and have them installed, they don't do that anymore, so what they have as a base setup is what I get.
My Main questions I can think of now are (and feel free to add anything else that might be helpfull)
1.) Can I host multiple sites on a dedicated server and how many are typically allowed, and how many ip addresses allowed (I know it varies, but do most of them have a limit in your experiences)?
2.) Can I configure the server the way I need the server configured...adding PHP modules, etc?
3.) What company has given you the best: Deal, Support, Overall Server Service (uptime, hassle, etc)?
4.) What hardware is usually the best. I am not completely familiar with the best setups on these things. (things like FSB etc, I only truly know about what processors fair well and that is on consumer pcs not servers).
Those are the few things I can think of right off the top of my head. I am not looking for people to break the no advertisements rule, just regular people who don't own a host telling me what their experiences with some companies have been. I was thinking of Sagonet but the horror story on another thread may keep me away from them, although I will not count them out. Also, Layered Tech is another one I have seen.
I am trying to stay away from companies that have deals that seem too good to be true only because they wind up being too good to be true. I am not looking for anything huge at this point as I want a server that can keep small to medium company websites running well with an option to later expand to a bigger server if needed. (which brings me to a new question, do they have upgrade packages where you can move to a bigger server down the line and how does the transfer usually fare on something like that?).
I think that is about it right now, all suggestions and thoughts will be looked at as I am learning a lot here. This is proving to be a great resource and I learn more and more everytime I look at a new post and I have only been here for a few hours.
Thanks guys.
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