Opinion on WP recommended host?

Sorry for any potential OT, but I would like to get an opinion about Doorhost.net. I’ve been with them since january. Apparently everything worked fine, but since april, they are driving me crazy. Ongoing downtime. At first they said that the problem was with a tmp directory of theirs, filling up and causing crashes to the Apache server; then they said that the problem was fixed, but I’m still experiencing sudden downtimes. Now they say that it could be a d.o.s attack, and so on. What do you think about them? Am I just unlucky or is there anything else? Thanks.

As a beginner I did a lot of research here and on other sites, and ended up going with Laughing Squid. I picked them because they seemed to suit my needs as a novice. Their help/sustomer support were key for me:

1) Their online documaentation, FAQ, etc, was in plain enough english and was more understandable for me than many others.

2) They do have knowledge of and experience with WP.

3) I submitted a couple of help tickets to ask them questions that would help me decide if they were for me, and they got back to me very fast despite the tickets being “low” priority. (Another webhost took a few days to get back to me on a simple question.)

4) I figured any webhost that specializes in sites for artists, nonprofits, and the like probably gets a lot of quesitions from folks without much site building/management expertise. So my questions wouldn’t annoy them. ??

I’ve only been with them a few weeks, but have had my share of questions for them, and have not been disappointed.

my god you all are willing to pay a lot of cash to get your blogs hosted….

anyway… I’ve got a client who uses powweb… no problems… funky admin area… expensive…

I’ve also sent several people to globedomain.com… no frills, but they’ve recently been taken over by acunett… the service is improving, but I’m not recomending them yet (they are crazy cheap though… )

There’s another company called 9esolution that I’ve used which has had stellar uptime, but has horrible customer service.

If you’re site doesn’t have much traffic, I could host it for you as well.

A Small Orange.

Very good indeed.

OK, I’ll admit, I’m still a bit naive about hosting, as I’ve only got a couple of low traffic blogs on my domain, but I paid $18 for a year’s worth of hosting. Unlimited databases, emails, subdomains. 6 gigs bandwidth (a month) and 600mb of storage, cpanel. I have yet to notice one minute of down time (knocks on wood), and everything seems cool. What’s the catch?
MyMarkdown

I have a hard time recommending Powweb…I (along with all users on a given server) have had 4 outages since I joined them, once lasting almost 8 hours, along with a php update glitch that took 3 days to correct.

I’ll second the vote for A Small Orange.

https://www.asmallorange.com/services/hosting/

I currently use MidPhase, and am moderately happy. I will going back to LunarPages. They are amazing. Hell, the W3C likes ’em, so there you go!

Chris

If the site isn’t for a business I might think about using globedomain… I haven’t had any down time in the last 3 months, but I’m still not convinced that things are all rosy…

500MB Space
5 GB Bandwidth
$18.75 / year

I pay like a $ extra a year and use a reseller account… let’s me share hosting with 4 domains under the same package

I have been with free webhosting with 50 MB space for a while.
Not really satisfied though.
At last, I met an offer I could not withstand.

-free domain registration
1 GB space
20 email addresses/100 MB apiece
virus and spam protection
DNS, PHP, Perl etc.
MySQL, pgSQL
SMTP, IMAP, POP3
Webmail, webstatistics
unlimited subdomain
FTP, TLS FTP
Control Center (email, phpMyAdmin)
SSL

All for 90$/year.

Friendly host, giving support and fulfilling special request if possible. The service is really good and I am all on my own.

Well, I bought myself the freedom ??