I honestly don’t know enough about eleven2 and rackspace to comment on them. Host Monster is in that category of hosts that is perfectly good but not superlative in any way.

For what it is worth, Spot Cool Stuff has a cloud host with VPS.NET that we are happy with. They don’t have unlimited bandwidth, but a key thing for you (and everyone else) to keep in mind is that really no one has unlimited bandwidth. Everyone has limits, it’s just that the so-called “unlimited bandwidth” hosts don’t put an exact number to them.

Also, we are working on a review of the best (in our opinion) cloud hosts. Check back for that.

Thanks again,

~ SCS

As a new blogger on two topics, one on dating and matchmaking, I want to keep the conversation from deteriorating, while ensuring the blog enables people to share valuable insights that are positive and painful or sensitive, if they will help others.

I ended up on your site through a Twitter link to check out the two restaurants in caverns in the Caribbean. Thank you for that. I needed a reason to put the Caribbean on the bucket list besides the beach.

May I ask, do you know anything about eleven2, hostmonster and rackspace (cloud)?

I have a feeling my two blogs I’m working on will have a lot of traffic, video, photos, comments and things I have no idea of yet that might slow it down on a shared server. I feel smart just knowing what that means. I heard GoDaddy, where my empty WordPress blog s parked until Monday, dings you for getting too many users on your site at the same time. I’d rather pay extra than have to move everything again and again.

I’d also rather make a smart decision right now and not pay Rackspace’s $100/mo for maybe 4 blogs at $1200/year if I can get the same unlimited bandwidth (right?) with hostgator.

I’ve been asking for this help on Twitter and am happy that people I met at podcampAZ, including a young man named @EricJMyers, friends Social Media Club Phoenix (@smcphx) and others with WordPress experience have been insightful.

It means a lot that you pointed out the ad alliance with WordPress and the information on Media Temple. Media Temple was recommended by someone who’s likely an affiliate. Hey, if we find a host we like, why wouldn’t we want to become an affiliate?

If you get a chance to answer soon, and I know I’m writing this on a Saturday, it will be so beneficial.

I like the honesty and the variety of categories on your site. Thanks. Keep the coolstuff scoops comin!

Sincerely,
@RoseannHiggins
Phoenix, Arizona

The thing about website hosts is that webmasters tend not to appreciate them when they work perfectly but get really pissed when anything goes wrong. As a result every website host — every single one of any size — has at least one review by an unhappy customer somewhere on the internet.

And with the particular review you cut & pasted, notice how this person’s problems started after an upgrade. It isn’t clear from the writing but it is very possible that the reviewer did something wrong during this upgrade. That is, the problem may have been the reviewer’s fault, not Easy CGI. And further still, this person’s site was only down for 2 hours. That’s not good, but 2 hours of downtime a month still translates into 99.7% uptime. We have no idea where the claim of only 85.5% uptime came from but we are certain that’s 100% wrong.

So, we stand by our recommendations: If uptime is paramount to you go with Host Gator. If you want solid uptime with a super-simple WordPress install Easy CGI is a great choice.

The way we look at it is: Every individual website host review has to be taken with a grain of salt.

I’m exploring moving my blog/starting a new blog on WordPress, so while it’s over a year old, it’s still helpful. And, I liked the idea of super fast up time with EasyCGI.

However, I did a little research on EasyCGI, and ran across a very unfavorable post. This came out AFTER your above post, so it may be a result of a new release that also came after your report. Found it on easycgireview.com and pasted it in below. Any thoughts on this?

” Easycgi uptime & Easycgi review for August 2009
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Easycgi uptime by Easycgireview.org for August 2009: 85.5% over the internet

Easycgi Uptime: This is the last month we are monitoring the easy cgi uptime. Due to very poor service uptime for the recent months, and this month is terrible with 85.5% uptime over the internet only. We had decided to discontinue monitoring easycgi uptime statistic. 607 outage occurance happened this month, that is the worst uptime we had recorded.

Easycgi Review: Eascycgi suck! We had given up the easycgi hosting, and moved this easycgi review blog site out to other web hosting plan. Reason is as following:

* After easycgi upgrade to new platform, their windows asp plan is showing alot of error for wordpress blog website. Error appear at page header and footer section.
* We spend over 2 hours yesterday to fixed the errors, and tried to reinstall wordpress via their installcenter, failed and error still persist.
* Over the 2 hours time, there are alot of website downtime, and website are not accessible oftenly. Visiting the wordpress admin page took 10 or 20 attempts.
* contacted easycgi support to solved the problem, live chat can’t solve it on the spot, forward it to other support. And there is no answer/reply since.
* we don’t want to suffer anymore, stop wasting our time, we are moving out. Easycgi sucks!”

Thanks for any added input or thoughts you may have!

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