Quote: (09-17-2013 04:05 PM)Odiseus Wrote:
For those of you who have websites... what services do you use for your servers?
I´ve been using hostgator (baby plan and business plan) for a long time and I´m extremely happy with it. Never had any problem and their performance is exceptional.
However that was for unimportant websites.
Now I´m planing my first startup and I want to find the best hosting for its website.
Is your startup planning to run any serious internet/web-based applications? Are you expecting to hire software developers? If so, you should get recommendations from them. Serving massive data files or consuming lots of bandwidth? Run the numbers and figure out whether you can actually make money with the plan.
If you're not planning on developing software or running high-performance applications, going with a VPS or Cloud provider (amazon, Linode, Digital Ocean) can involve additional headaches that shared hosting providers often solve for you. Patching and upgrades is a notable one.