Hostgator painfully slow, any good VPS cPanel hosts that are good that aren't dedicated?
 

I've had a VPS account with hostgator going on 4+ years and all kinds of things have happened to sites on there. Some sites get corrupted files while some lose files altogether. This has mostly happened after Brent Oxley jumped ship and it went into new ownership.
On top of that it is painfully slow, each click seems to take 4-5 seconds to load a simple wordpress page.

Any hosts that are reasonably fast with the same rates as hostgator?
Maybe I'll go through the process of hosting more sites on one droplet on digital ocean and adult friendly sites like vultr.
Still cPanel is fast and easy.

Try DigitalOcean! :P

See you sig!
Peace!

- now the real shit -
dont get anything with one core.

I was with DreamHost for 7 years...
Thank god I moved to a server server with more than 1 core (8 now)...

fuck those overselling shits... only if u can't pay more... :/

Digital Ocean + CPanel is one option.

Here's a how to Install CPanel on a Digital Ocean droplet running Centos..

Because Digital Ocean is all SSD you can, for a small processor sacrifice, add Swap to your droplet using this tutorial to add a Swap file to your Digital Ocean droplet.

The number of sites you can run per droplet depends on how much memory and disk space you have available and how much traffic they receive.

Digital Ocean only provides one IP address per droplet however you can run 2 droplets running CPanel and synch DNS between them, so NS1 = Droplet 1 , NS2 = Droplet 2.

However once you start spending $20 per droplet, $14 for CPanel VPS per month you might as well move to OVH and their SoYouStart offerings.

An Intel Xeon W3520/ 4 cores 8 threads / 2.6Ghz / 16GB RAM / 2 * 2TB HDD & 250Mbps unlimited data transfer is only $42, add $20 per month from OVH for CPanel lands you with a capable server for $62 per month. https://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/sys-ip-1.xml

Wait... hostgator is not a good host? Does anyone else know about this?

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lol :thumbsup

+1 for digitalocean

Thanks for the responses.

What really provoked this was the speed of the sites and the fact I started experiencing trouble with adwords because of "poor user experience" from the sites that were hosted.

Certified hosting is good but I don't need that much space on a server, I've used them before.

I want SSD drives for all my stuff, hosting included. :)

Less than a week ago I took apart my 2010 27" iMac and installed a SSD into it. Quiet and loads everything 2-5x faster. Speed matters a lot more than it used to, especially with all other websites out there.

Question:

Why are you promoting Digital Ocean hosting in your sig "for all your needs" and yet, asking for hosting advice.

It would seem to contradict your DC recommendation... I am just saying.

I have small businesses I host for, not many. Digital Ocean requires some command line skills to get everything up and running, nothing extreme but would throw the average folk into a fit.

I use Way3 Hosting. Have for many years. They are awesome!

Mail me so we can talk, i am sure we can offer you some great packages and prices with the support you need on your account. mail me at [email protected] or skype juanfigueroa8

Have a look at Linode too. I'd use them over digital ocean.

I use them too (VPS).

You can also check my sig, they have decent virtual/VDS/Dedicated plans.

Can always give Vultr a try. Faster speeds and more locations than Digital Ocean

Latency from Melbourne to Vultr Sydney is appalling, what type of interconnect / peering do you guys have here ?

I'm pretty limited on my info about Vultr, whoever I know they do operate within an Equinix facility in Aus.

If you have any specific questions Vultr can be reached here - https://www.vultr.com/contact/

If speed is what you need then i am sure this speed test will give you a smile Tampa Speedtest | Cloud Blok combined with our proactive support and you will be good :)

2.92Mbps from Cloud Blok :1orglaugh

85.31Mbps from Digital Ocean

79.96 Mbps from Vultr

Jesus, that's a big difference. I'd love to see the traceroutes to compare.

never do business with cloudblok.com, former diploy.net !
search for diploy and thank me later.

a decent shared hosting account might work for you.

Not sure what you are using but why do you not try this again on their speed test

SFO1 Speedtest | DigitalOcean

against our tampa data center

Tampa Speedtest | Cloud Blok

they do 6.19 mbps down and we do 8.01 mbps down.

Don't say stuff that isn't true dude. They do not even have a connection that lest you down 85.31mbps, don't kid yourself.

Not sure who you are, but we have many happy customers and we try to keep them happy. But sometimes things don't work out. Give me a company with 100% satisfied customers.

If you have an issue you can mail me at [email protected]