anson.c Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I'm in need of recommendations for a web hosting that includes the following features: 1. Very large / unlimited storage 2. Unlimited bandwidth 3. A lot / unlimited SQL 4. A lot / unlimited email addresses 5. Unlimited domains pointing I'm currently with iPage and TMDhosting. iPage is pissing me off recently. Their server is always slow. They denied our previous agreement and started double charging me!!!! I'm thinking to move everything to TMD. But I want to know what other options do I have? I also want to point out that one of my websites sells sex toys so it needs a hosting that is OK with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 1. there is no such thing as unlimited in web hosting or anything else. 2. this doesn't exist 3. see above 4. check #2 5. refer to previous answers What are your realistic numbers? how much bandwidth are you using? How much storage are you using? and how many email addresses and databases are you using? People advertise unlimited storage, domains and bandwidth but it is a lie. It is a technique called over selling. I run a few servers to host my clients sites, which many are prestashop installations. The store that does the most business has almost 1k products, with that they are using about 1 gig of disk and 3 gig of transfer a month. I have a client that does [spam-filter]ing events that uses about 6 tb in 30 minutes during an event. Let me know your actual needs and I can point you some where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomerg3 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 @Design, sorry to say this, but you are incorrect, or just had bad experiences... @anson Where are you located? Where are most of your target customers located? How many visitors do you get each month? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Like I mentioned, I have a client that does web cast's 4 a month, for a total of 20-24 tb a month. Transfer is currently costing about $1200 a month. I would love a suggestion of where to go and get unlimited. I could save a boat load of money. And to clarify my response bandwidth is limited. Running a sever with a 100mbs port, that is one way to limit it. Especially when it is a shared sever with say 30 or 50 accounts all going through that port. Maybe you have a gig port, but with more clients on it. Thus still limiting you. What happens when your site starts spanning several high bandwidth sata drives and you are paying $12 a month for it? All hosting companies have a disclaimer, especially unlimited ones, that spell out if you are using too much resources you will be canned. Just like with the internet companies in America, there is no hard limit, but they know when you are using too much and throttle you. It is best to size accordingly so you have something to stand on if your service is slowed or interrupted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overselling#Web_hosting http://whreviews.com/overselling-hosting.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomerg3 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 OK, when you get into tb's, I can see how you would be limited (did you look into amazon cloud?) There are plenty of hosts that would give you virtually unlimited bandwidth, storage space, emails, databases and subdomains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I actually am using the ec2 service. The biggest problem I had trying to scale a server was the transfer rate overwhelmed a gig port. In my opinion if you go with a regular reputable companies hosting plan, you never even get near the limits if you run a regular business. That is why I include hosting on my servers as part of my design fee. Plus I keep the PCI compliance up to PCI3 which is hard to find on a regular host. But as someone that runs servers, it scares the hell out of me that I am going to get someone like imgur on my server. They post 3-4pb a month, http://imgur.com/stats/month I do not know how you do your hosting Tomerg3, but here is how is works for me. I lease space in a datacenter, they charge me for the space the machine takes up on the floor, which being a rackmount it doesn't really, but its still flat rental fee. Then they charge me for bandwidth. Which is basically buying a package of 100gb, with a rate for overages. Basically like a cellphone with included minutes. But the moral of the story is, if you pay for hosting through a company like say rackspace or webhosting buzz, or where ever, they pay for bandwidth. One way they get you is port speed. I have an industry contact that had a "unlimited" bandwidth account at another provider, that he was using a dedicated machine with. One of his clients dropped a groupon and it over whelmed the 100mbs port. While he is never charged more than his flat bandwidth fee, all of the sites on the machine stayed inaccessible for the day. And as a recommendation I would go with webhosting buzz, prestashop setts up well on there servers, they do have magic quotes on, but it has never been a problem for me. On another note we should get a list together of hosts to use and not to use based on how prestashop sets up on them. Like I know go daddy is horrible because of the cloud sql servers. Because with software like prestashop it comes down to more than numbers, a lot depends on how the servers are configured and what they are running and not running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OC2PS Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 http://www.prestashop.com/forums/index.php?/topic/160962-hello-which-host-to-use/page__view__findpost__p__784462 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vasvra Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 I use 2 Prestashops with e-webhosting.biz with unlimited domains, SQL's and space with no problems and very good support. Send them a request and see what they say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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