Not really agree with "we should not use shared hosting anymore in 2018"

But agree with "people already switching from shared hosting to vps because of scaling and security"

For some tech savvy company that have sufficient IT resources to manage their web application, VPS definitely is a better solution as they will have more and better control on their hosting account by using VPS.

But not everyone or not every website needed a VPS.
- There are still lots of SME that need only simple website and email hosting
- It will be high cost for them to host website under a VPS

You don't use insecure service to host your website because you want to save cost. And if you're familiar enough with the market right now, the cheapest vps or vm hosting a dynamic website you can find for small business is just less than RM10 per month and for static website is like almost free. There is no single reason to use shared hosting anymore.

If you tell me free is not cheap enough for you. You should not run a business.
The whole point here is shared hosting is very very insecure, if you know it well enough.
I really wish you're not working in the hosting industry else many of our clients will suffer living under your hood. I just point the fact, nothing personal.

Sorry for late reply. If you are able to tune your own server. Try digitalocean. They are rock solid and recently one of the heroku founder jump into their wagon. They might getting close to compete with large cloud player like gcp, aws and azure.

This post has been edited by k8houz: May 30 2018, 10:45 AM

HOw about Hostgator? Is it good?

what's good about them? price? tech? customer service? freebie? swag? tell me please

They use aws to host their web. What makes you think they don't use their own server?

This post has been edited by k8houz: Jun 9 2018, 12:44 AM

Just sharing my experience with Exabytes;

I find it quite ridiculous that their so called business hosting servers conduct daily maintenance / backup solution which according to them (and that they've admitted) will cause server high load and "will not be taking down entire services". However this is true only if your website is ridiculously small in size.. if you have websites using CMS, the loading speed is so terrible to the point that your browser will just give up. I even conducted tests by installing same CMS + website and all applications that came with it on a different hosting server.. no problem at all.

Their support is very helpful and responsive (but not perfect, of course), yes, but I find their "99.5% uptime" is a big lie if their daily maintenance would cause most websites to be almost un-loadable.

My renewal with them is due now, I am making a switch.

Peace out.

I am curious, which webhosting you're planning to switch?
I once considered Exabytes but the customer service was only interested to sign me up on the spot rather than answer my questions in detail.

This post has been edited by lowlowc: Jul 5 2018, 02:21 PM

I'm with a webhost called WPWebhost for many years but up till this year and last year, the downtime has been increasing and I'm getting frustrated with them. I had many good years with them but unfortunately I'm considering moving to something else. WPWebhost is actually under Exabytes and I'm using their shared hosting with 5 domains and combined daily traffic of 500 unique visitors. Even that they are struggling to give me decent uptime while always blaming my wordpress plugins. I had no issue with this for years when I had 1k daily traffic. I'm now considering moving to Bluehost and still researching about them.

Haven't really decided yet... I have until August to decide. But I'm currently looking at Siteground.com or GoDaddy. There are other options recommended here https://www.bitcatcha.com/research/web-host...aysia-websites/ but I've honestly no idea if they are biased or not.

This post has been edited by Enemy: Jul 10 2018, 02:31 AM

Are you on the "SSD Disk" package? From my 10+ years experience handling a web server, the common culprit that cause server spike during maintenance is due to the rotating disk whereas SSD disk would perform much better.

Says on the website that their server is using SAS hard disk.. but I'm not really sure if that's really what I got for the "EBiz Plus v7 - Linux" package I bought into.

This post has been edited by Enemy: Jul 10 2018, 10:03 AM

EBiz Plus is our small business hosting that is non-SSD disk
https://www.exabytes.my/web-hosting/small-business-hosting

EBiz Plus PRO is our SSD Premium Hosting that runs on SSD Disk
https://www.exabytes.my/web-hosting/premium-business-hosting

I would recommend you to get a hosting which runs on SSD instead. If you wish to try one, please PM me. I can provide you an account which you may try for a month or two. The simplest test you can try is to perform system backup, an account on SSD hosting could perform a system backup 10 times faster as compared to SAS or the old SATA HDD.