Comments on: Web Hosting – Things to know about hosting providers

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:04:38 +0000

I agree with you Dev, at times Mediatemple web hosting sucks a big time. I fell into a similar situation with the Media temple grid hosting. My blog was taking a hell lot of time. I called up their customer service to know if they had any solution but they were unable to figure out what was going wrong. I signed up with Godaddy shared hosting and there we are. The same blog is loadin within 5 seconds.

ok, I’m done ranting lol. I have not yet tried Myhosting.com or Gr8host.com but would appreciate if anyone has tried them and can write a review or share experience.

Thanks, Ronnie.

By: Dev Duff

Dev Duff — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:53:44 +0000

Hi Stephen,

When we last planned to move some of our sites to MediaTemple, we had to deal with a few problems.
First of all, by no means I’m trying to say anything bad about how MT works and certainly, this post is not to criticize a particular company.
A new website that we launched recently, we planned to host it on MT dedicated server hosting. The site was earlier on Godaddy shared hosting. But we needed something better, perhaps the best. So we signed up with MT. Everything seemed to work great, however, my partner in india was experiencing over 40 seconds of delay while moving from page to page. We tweaked the site like hell. Reduced http requests, create image sprites, tweaked CSS files, played around with javascript files, changed structure of the website. All that done but still the website was taking over 30 seconds to load anything at all.
Now this situation was amazing. I could access the website and it used to load fully within 5 secs. I’m in Melbourne/Australia. Where as, my partner in India was finding the website extremely slow.
We consulted with a couple of other programmers and they all advised to try some other hosting service.
We moved the site(s) over to InMotionHosting and now we all are finding the site working extremely fast. The same site is loading within 3 seconds at my end and within 8 seconds at my partner’s computer in India.
So yes, MT has some serious issues with filtering traffic from different countries. And mind it, my partner did check the hops, checked with ISP and God knows what else. But nothing helped.
Anyways, this post was to explore options that could be beneficial beyond all that unnecessary hoopla of popular hosting companies. There are options beyond only the well known. And those options could be great.
My next move for any of my sites will be to Myhosting.com or to Gr8host.com

Regards,
Dev.

By: Stephen Ryan

Stephen Ryan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:28:43 +0000

“found that they filter out traffic from specific countries”

Are you serious about this? Firstly how did you find out and secondly, is it in there T&C anywhere? Can you point me to where please? I’m actually quite shocked that anyone would do this beyond temporary black holes of botnets.