I have very little experience with hosting plans since this year is the first time I have my own domain, but I thought I might share this link with you since you are interested in DreamHost: http://www.upstartblogger.com/why-dreamhost-sucks

I am hosted at DreamHost at the moment, but we have a lot of downtime, especially on the subdomains – very unfortunate. It does seem however that some people are really happy with DH while others like *upstartblogger* hate it. Guess there are many things that it will depend on.

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That’s ridiculous if that’s the case. I doubt that it’s fact…does anyone know??

I like the price of Dreamhost, I’ll have to check it out.

Appreciate the comments Nick.

I’ve been with a lot of hosting providers in roughly 3 years. I started out with godaddy at their super cheap plan.

Dreamhost:
Then a friend shot me over to dreamhost – Amazing, the best hosting ever, unless you need unique IPs or dedicated servers then they are just too pricey. My sites have been down once in a bluemoon, email has been down once i believe in a year. For the price – i think i paid $130 for 2 years, with 2tb of bandwidth and 1000gb of storage. (this was on their old coupon plan).

I like that they have one-click-install on a lot of open source CMSs and allow you to have unlimited MySql, domains, subdomains, email accounts, on and on.

I don’t like – well there isn’t much to complain about. – I’ve dealt with support a lot and they have always been pretty quick and solved our problems (even if it was my fault).

ThePlanet:
For a while I ran a chain of proxies and had an unmanaged server at ThePlanet – the service sucked there, but hey that’s unmanaged, you get what you pay for.

It was like $300 a month – I hated plesk 8.0 for a server management platform – just plain hard to use. Only upside was the price.

HostGator:
Hostgator so far seems to work well, i’m on their lowest reseller plan. I was able to negotiate with them for buying bulk unique ips, however they do have a set up fee for security certificates. Support is helpful, but before signing up i would say call or email support and ask for a discount – if you dont have a referer. They are friendly, but sales may sometimes take a while to respond to you.

Overall I hope it works out well with them. They gave me the IPs at a steal and even discounted the cost for the cert setup.

Current status:

Right now I have 2 hosting accounts with dreamhost, and just set up another with hostgator. – long story 2 llcs and i need separate hosting for each + my private hosting.

Reason for bulk IPs. Currently I am moving to set up all my affiliate site – which iframe in an application form or other forms to secure sites. With namecheap offering free SSL certs with a domain purchase, its a real deal. Id say check it out, hope it boosts my conversion rate.

I am also very leary of GoDaddy, a few people i know have had their domains held hostage, so if you are doing anything even remotely blackhat or shady don’t mess with Go Daddy. (Dreamhost will ban you too)

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Yeah, I s’pose it’s pretty easy. If it has a DB back end then you just have to export it then download the site files, then re-upload the files and import the DB. I guess that’s an easy enough way…and a pretty standard way that should work with all hosts.

I don’t think there is any quick transfer type of app built in though.

I remember asking a tech awhile back about transferring a site to someone else’s account and he said you have to give the whole account away with the site in it. You would have to delete your credit card info from the account and give the person your username and password.

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