September was an exciting month for GoDaddy and their 50 million-plus users. Whether it was a hacker or DNS issue, the downtime happened and it was affecting a great portion of the internet. In addition to domain names, GoDaddy also does hosting for millions of their customers. While GoDaddy is one of the largest companies online for domains and hosting, the downtime issue is one that many will not forget… and not one of the first problems they have had.
In the world of web hosting, just a few seconds seems like an eternity. If there is one thing that web site owners and bloggers don’t enjoy, it’s seeing their web sites being down. Another thing we hate to do is deal with any hosting issues or having to transfer/find a new web hosting solution.
At the end of the day it’s important to choose a reliable hosting solution that has a long history of success, a ton of positive reviews, reasonable rates and an excellent support system. A reliable and quality web host that can grow along with the growth of your website or blog is just another component to the secret formula for having a successful blog.
This is something that many new website and blog owners may fail to see. The first thing people usually see is the price and most people will go with the cheapest solution they can find. Many hosting providers have accounts available for less than $10 a month, but if you have a site that is making thousands of dollars a month, how can you jeopardize your site for such a small investment. Instead you should be hosted on your own dedicated server with 24/7 downtime monitoring–yet so many site owners are still picky about saving just a few dollars at the end of the day.
If you are looking to start your first website or blog and still in the hosting selection process, be sure to go with a name that is reliable and has excellent customer support. To help you with the process, Blogging.org has compiled a list and infographic of the top 25 hosting companies in the industry today.
I’ve personally been with more hosting companies over the past decade than I would like to think about. Today I am hosting with HostGator and am extremely happy to have them managing all of my sites and blogs today. As for hosting solutions, I’ve also been through it all. From being on shared servers to dedicated servers and even having my own set of 16 Dell servers in a data center to handle one of my sites that was getting 100,000 visitors daily…I unfortunately know more about web hosting than I would like to!
I recently signed up for godaddy for my recent blog which was a regrettable decision at first I thought the negative slap they were getting were over hype but soon realized to be true. I think their problem is they are simply too big, and when it comes to customer support they are the worse.
I admit that I was surprised to find Hostdime.com not in the top 25 list and see GoDaddy and Tumblr in there as I have heard nothing but bad things about those particular hosts in terms of being reachable for support and fast solutions. Over the course of my almost eight years of online existence I will say that the complete amount of downtime has not even amounted to 6 hours. There was only one major incident which stemmed from a hardware failure but even that found me back online and alright in a matter of hours. Thanks for the list just the same.
Thanks for sharing that, Ken. Six hours in eight years isn’t too shabby at all.
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