So what’s new? We plan on doing a review of web hosting services that support the installation of the open source scripts.
Why yet another web hosting review?
Because
- we are sick of affiliate links, sponsored pages masquerading as review,
- we are tired of copied about-us page pretending to be a review,
- a bunch of user ratings cannot beat actually checking out the service and kicking the tires for ourselves,
- we have criteria that other reviews do not cover
What are our criteria? Why we think they are important?
- Good support – should be timely, knowledgeable and polite.
We are not expecting the hosting support to ace here, just performance at a reasonably acceptable level. Since we know what we are doing and if hosting company know what they are doing too, there is no need for excessive support anyway. - Honor their money back and any claims/promises (if any).
We will be asking our money back and checking out any other gimmicks to see if they live up to their claim. - SSH access
Without SSH we are like working with one hand tied behind our back. Typically hosting companies that allows ssh are also more technically competent. - Allow unlimited domain - at least a large enough number
- Attractive pricing
We are not looking for the cheapest here. Value for money and generally inline with what others are offering. We think a ideal entry level is a monthly payment of less that $9 (not $9/month if you sign up for 3 years).
This would also be a good exercise for us to get to know more about the hosting offerings out there and also to sharpen our skill.
In closing, we want to take this opportunity to recommend you our current hosting provider RapidVPS. In our opinion, they already ace all our criteria so we will not be doing an actual review about them. We had been using them for close to 2 years now. In full disclosure, you should know we are not related to them in any way except as happy paying customer. Also the link above does earn us a referral, but only if you are happy with their service and stay signed-up (which we think you will). So give it a try.
ps. Any host you would like us to try?