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Godaddy has screwed up for the last time.

They have been a great host for the past two years but I am sick of their constant ads and maze of a hosting panel. They screwed up my card information so many times. This time they did not renew my domain. They parked it with tons of ads.

I am thinking of

http://www.inmotionhosting.com/hostingplans.html

if you have any suggestions please post them.

inmotion actually looks pretty good. personally i've been thinking about switching from godaddy to http://www.fatcow.com/ they seem pretty and have had really good reviews. I'd like to find a cheap virtual server or dedicated host though.

Tony pointed me towards this one,

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

seems you pay for the bandwidth you use and not a penny more. They are very fast also. I just can't guesstimate how much I would need.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

The inmotionhosting and FatCow look pretty good. The amazon one just confused me...

Told you that godaddy hosting sucks.

The amazon thing as far as I know is not really a webhost, its more of a data hosting thing along with the rest of the amazon web services. Like if you check alot of smaller social networking type sites use them.


Like Twitter Avatars :p

hehe godaddy was the bomb, here lately they have just dropped the bomb...

Never been a fan of Godaddy anything, personally. Too much crap to wade through, and too little support. I'm just now down to my last domain I'm transferring from them because everything about their system is bloated and inefficient. Having worked for a hosting company for many years, I think the frontrunners are HostGator and Bluehost in terms of value. If VPS is your thing, I currently have all my stuff with wiredtree and highly recommend them, though I would also consider liquidweb. I've also put dozens of clients on Bluehost, and never had a problem with any of them, so for the time being, I consider them very solid.

Fatcow was great when they first started out, but a lot of hosts start that way given it's relatively easy to work your ass off for two years, get a few thousand clients, and then sell for a nice profit to the bigger guys. Fatcow sold in 2005, and I haven't heard anything but bad news about them since, just FYI.

As much as possible, I don't want to change host since migration is a huge headache. It would be a tough time though.

ragortue wrote:As much as possible, I don't want to change host since migration is a huge headache. It would be a tough time though.

That's what I call gravediggin'

EDIT: If you want a great host, http://jrnetwork.net/news/jrnews/webhos ... ting-r329/ should still be working. He's an old friend of mine that learnt my first programming languages, HTML and CSS.