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Originally Posted by SweetT (Post 16737921)

Hey Dave....

I will make you an offer....if you would like to discuss it offline I will be happy to help you develop the list based on your requirements. In the interest of full disclosure, I will tell you and everybody else that I will list NationalNet in the #1 spot, but what I will do is give you a list of 11 instead of 10 so that if you want to drop me off the list you will still be left with 10. How is that for fair? ;)

--T

Classy and professional as always. Back when I was running my own businesses I seriously spent over a million dollars with NatNet and never regretted a penny. Their service is OUTSTANDING. Yes, they are more expensive than a lot of hosts but they're not a ping, power, pipe colo facility. NatNet does an amazing job of managing boxes, keeping them up, pro-actively looking for security holes, you name it, it's handled.

For the money you get more than just a hosting company. You get a partner. Back in the MadAve days we were running out of database horsepower and NatNet came up with a clustered (not master/slave) MySQL solution from scratch and it was awesome. Didn't charge us a PENNY extra! That's the type of service I'm willing to pay a few extra bucks for!

NatNet is in a class all by themselves in my book!

Just passing through :) Thanks Pastor and WaddyMelon.

great thread and perfect timing

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Originally Posted by Waddymelon (Post 16738217)

Dont be so bitter. Who else would someone suggest other than a company that they have good experiences with?

I'm just saying that people should do research before jumping in based on someone's paid opinion of a host. If you want a true representation of a host, you don't go to the sales guy asking for opinions... the sales guy loves you long enough until the cheque is cashed. :disgust

If Uptime, support, price and flexible no contract terms are your criteria then as posted above Techiemedia is for sure worthy of being on the top 10 list.:2 cents::thumbsup

Dave not that you care but these guys are mostly full of shit top host is rackspace.com then you go theplanet.com others that do in the 100 million plus revenue range.

For sheer BW levels choopa and swiftwill are probably the biggest now, in adult specific circles.

rackspace.com(mainstream - 100.00% network uptime for the last 4 years.)
mojohost.com(adult)

> You could have the best Customer satisfaction even if you don't have bandwidth.
> Top 10 as in Google and Bing are probably in the top 3 of Search Engines.

Ok, so largest in terms of number of users, regardless of whether or not it's "a heaping pile" (the definition of "bing")?
So AOL is the top ISP and Bing is a top search engine? Godaddy would be near the top,
simply counting number of users. Godaddy, AOL, and Bing would of course all be near
the bottom of any list of the "best" or especially for "most appropriate for professional use".
Of course "number of customers" is only one measure of "size", too. I know Swiftwill
has one single client who does as much bandwidth as 10,000 average Godaddy clients.

If you're talking about "most appropriate for professional use", which is what matters
more to most people here, Phatservers/Amerinoc would be near the top of the list,
along with Webair, NatNet and others that have been mentioned. Godaddy and other
$9 hosts would be near the bottom of this list, since they target grandma's quilting
club and the local donut shop, not a professional adult site.

Then an altogether different list is "which host should I choose?"
That depends entirely on what you need and want. I large tube site with a
professional server admin on staff needs cheap reliable bandwidth. A newbie
with a small site needs helpful, knowledgeable techs who are willing to hold
their hand for $20 / month. So to know which host anyone should choose they
have to consider what they are looking for and rank the following considerations,
deciding which is most important, which is least important, etc.:

__ base price
__ fast friendly service
__ expertise
__ performance (fast servers, network)
__ security
__ shared or smaller accounts
__ dedicated or larger accounts
__ high volume bandwidth price

That would be useful info I'd like to see from people who have posted "blah.net is the best".
The best what? The best price on huge amounts ofbulk bandwidth? The best hand holding
when you ask stupid questions? The best performance? The best reliability?
Swiftwill might be ranked #1 for best security, someone else for the friendliest customer service.

If anyone cares to, I'd love to see you rank the host(s) you mentioned in each
of the eight categories, marking "1" for what they are the best at, their top
priority, and marking "8" for what the do not focus on, etc. for the numbers 1-8.
As an example, I might rate Phatservers like this:

Code:

_3_ base price                      (as low as $10 / month, no setup)

_2_ fast friendly service     (VERY fast email, no phone)

_1_ expertise                       (Mike has been a sysadmin since the 1980s and knows his stuff)        

_6_ performance (fast servers, network)

_5_ security

_4_ shared or smaller accounts  (for their $10 accounts again)

_7_ dedicated or larger accounts

_8_ high volume bandwidth price

Disclaimer - I filled out the above very quickly, to give a rough idea.
I really don't know about how Phatservers rates for large amounts of
bandwidth. Their colo prices are very good, so I'd like to rate "dedicated
or larger accounts" higher, but I have to mark SOMETHING as #7 and #8.

swiftwill is a top ten for sure
bw
service
you name it everything

50 top hosting companies :)

No ones gone for the comedy option of Dreamhost?

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Originally Posted by askmomma (Post 16737332)

As already mentioned a few times www.techiemedia.com is by far one of the very best hosts in todays hosting biz. Reliable, great prices, perfect uptime, and the best support in the biz.:)

Top of the heap right there.

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Originally Posted by CyberAge-Dave (Post 16737870)

If I remember right, didn't you guys have your name on a Huge RV or Bus or something way back in the days?

Yes Sir! We had limo buses with our name plastered all over them. The limo bus company is in the family... kinda works in my favor ya know?

Xoom, Geocities, Angelfire..

Found a photo of that Limo Bus...
http://splitinfinity.net/playersball...Images/200.jpg

More fun from Internext here: http://splitinfinity.net/playersballphotos

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Originally Posted by quantum-x (Post 16737769)

ISPrime.

:2 cents: great hosting

The thing about all of these threads is that typically people post the host they use, without having used a wide selection. This is fairly normal, too, as you find something you're happy with, and stay with them. However, it doesn't make for objective arguments.

Having hosted with:
ISPrime
Mojohost
RealityCheckNetworks
PhatServers
CyberWurx
NationalNet

My favourite by a long, long shot, for multiple reasons, is the one on the top of the list.

Has anybody here used DWHS? They offer dedicated servers for $99/month. Any reviews?

http://www.dwhs.net/dedicated-plans.htm

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Originally Posted by Riffhard (Post 16741186)

Has anybody here used DWHS? They offer dedicated servers for $99/month. Any reviews?

http://www.dwhs.net/dedicated-plans.htm

that 99/month package is a virtual server, not a real dedicated server !

It also says: "root access: no"
that's when bells should ring too

Hostgator / The Planet

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Originally Posted by PastorSinAlot (Post 16737258)

Choopa is the best. I have tried over 30 and there support is great. Good prices and great support.
None of the above can hang

i 2nd that ... 1 on 1 icq support rocks ... and if yer fav tech aint around they reply to tickets in almost no time ... choopa is the cream :thumbsup

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Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin (Post 16741037)

Xoom, Geocities, Angelfire..

rofl, a freeloaders choice in 2000 :2 cents:

haha, been there when i was a surfer :pimp

natnet. There customer support is second to none.

natnet, mojo, xxxhostit...

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Originally Posted by tabasco (Post 16737314)

You won't find better than AmeriNOC (formerly Phatservers) in my opinion. I've been with plenty of hosts and none come close.

PhatServers are the best for me and many of my friends...:thumbsup

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Originally Posted by Waddymelon (Post 16738038)

and that one guy that tosses his cat in the air...

:1orglaugh

Reflected is our clear top choice (Still host at Webair, Cyberwurx & Isprime as well)
Splitinfinty is the only one we have dropped, but we only had some virtual accounts there.

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Originally Posted by quantum-x (Post 16741146)

Agreed, we have hosted with ISPrime and their network + support was some of the best we have had - however they couldn´t match prices (at that time, might have changed since), so we left them.

Today we have a good balance between network, support and price, but if we only had to choose on one of these areas, then I´m sure we could do better.