Switching hosting services (8 posts)

Topic tags: hosting
  • Profile picture of Meryl Meryl said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    I plan to switch my hosting services from godaddy to bluehost. Any advice in this transition?

    Thank you

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  • Profile picture of Joly MacFie Joly MacFie said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Personally I like dreamhost.

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  • Profile picture of Meryl Meryl said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Why do you prefer dreamhost?

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  • Profile picture of Steve Steve said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Though you should be doing backups anyway, it’s always nice when a host does them as well. However, Bluehost does not do backups: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/312?step=312

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  • Profile picture of Dana Dana said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    I have been using site5 for the past year and am very happy with them. And they do backups :)

    They don’t really have phone support, but you can use live chat and their tickets system, outside of forums. They have helped me figure out WP issues that have come up from time to time too, which I really appreciate.

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  • Profile picture of Joly MacFie Joly MacFie said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    I don’t use bluehost so I can’t compare, but I’ve been with Dreamhost about 7 years, more than one account on different shared servers. Outages are rare, responsive support. Great interface. True unlimited capacity.

    If you go with them you can use the code VIDBLOG to get a maximum discount.

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  • Profile picture of Meryl Meryl said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    Thanks everyone for your recommendations. I will look into all your suggestions.

    Steve, who do you recommend?

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  • Profile picture of Steve Steve said 1 year, 7 months ago:

    @Meryl– You can find our recommendations here: http://slipfire.com/web-hosts/

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