I have a little doubt and sure you can help me with it. I would like to know how email is managed in An Hosting. Now I have a hosting with dreamhost and the email is managed through Google Apps. Maybe it’s a good solution, but fails a lot with one of my adresses. I’m using the IMAP protocol. An Hosting seems a good solution for my next domain, but despite the “Zillabytes” of hard disk and “Quantumbytes” of bandwith, It’s really important to me the fiability of the email, 99.99% uptime is a must, and IMAP too. Please can you tell me your experience with that ? Thanks !

QUESTION (without abusing or “using too much much cpu”)
1) what web hosting?
2) how many people can view the video at the same time?
3) how many people can view the video each month?

i know that dedicated hosting is more suitable, but
is there any shared web hosting where we can put that kind of website without running into any “too much cpu”, “abuse”, or other similar problems.

- slimetoner @ yahoo.com

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I’ve had good luck with AN Hosting. But if you’re looking at a dedicated server you should also consider midPhase Hosting. They’re the same company, but AN Hosting offers better shared hosting packages.

Today I was having bandwidth problems, so I google “webhosting that doesn’t suck”. And who should be the 3rd result but good ole upstartblogger (my Pligg buddy).

Thanks for this article.

I am fed up with shared hosting. You described how aweful it is brilliantly.

My first websites (before I knew anything) were with webhostingace.com (recommended to me but an equally clueless friend). Never heard of them? That’s for the best.

They had fantastico in the cPanel when I started with them and all those easy to install CMS made me feel like a kid in a candy shop. Then they must have gone with a cheaper cPanel package or something because suddenly fantastico was missing…

So I googled webhosting with fantastico (of course I looked at things like disk space, bandwidth, etc. too). And I looked at sites comparing webhosts. I was very thorough, but still pretty clueless.

So I found my current host and they were great at the time for my needs, but now I need something better.

Speaking of the risks of shared hosting. I had an experience with my current host that was pretty crazy. i wake up one morning and type in the URL of my site and a page comes up that my site has been suspended. When I came to… I checked my gmail and there was an email from my host saying the following:

Hello,
We are emailing you to inform you that your account nipponster.com is suspended due to AUP/TOS violation. We received a notification from our upstream provider that your website was involved in using a trademarked name and pictures to fraudulently gain logins and passwords to accounts. As per our TOS, we have suspended your website.
In case of any questions feel free to email us back.
Best regards,

It turns out that phishers have become more sophisticated. Phishers had cracked into my site and planted their fishing pages in among my files. It was murder convincing my host that I had no idea how their files got there and getting my site back online. I don’t know if you or any of the readers here have had a simialar experience but I hope not because it is the worst experience I have ever had online. I mention it because, although I don’t know for sure, my host likely HAD to suspend my site because of the effect on my shared-hosting neighbors. Plus like they said their “upstream provider” told them to do something and not to mention that they didn’t want some phishing jerks stealing people’s paypal info. I found the phisher’s email addresses inside of some of the code for their phishing pages and I reported them to an online spam watchdog, but I don’t think anything came of it. (btw, spammers, phishers, and black hat hackers suck a lot worse than shared hosting :) I had a site that was cracked before this too and there seems like their is no recourse with these hackers, you just have to take it. Am I right?

I don’t know if that story has much to do with picking a host. I figure that even with dedicated hosting I could have the same problems. But maybe it will be better. I will blissfully believe that it will be better…
AN hosting huh? That sounds good.

Wow, this is a long comment. hmmm.

Have you heard about ANHosting is going to move to new datacenter sometime later this year? One of the tech support told me they are not happy with the current datacenter. They just got a network routing issues yesterday. I called. One of the guy told me the same thing.

When I was with HostingZoom, they moved datacenter as well. My site was down for 2 straight days. Just hope it’s not the case with ANHosting.

Good luck to us. ;-)

After all, their solutions is “We just reboot the server. Everything looks fine now. There was nothing wrong.”

Their failover hosting is the worst hosting platform I have ever with.

My blog is now running on ANHosting as well. I actually do a lot of research and go with ANHosting.com after reading this blog. Although I am not 100% happy with ANHosting.com, but all other hosting companies are just suck.

I have post many review and issues I have on my blogs. I still recommend ANHosting after all.

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AN Hosting gives you up to 20 domain names on one account, so you should be able to share an account with your friend.

I looked at Olivia’s site. Great photographs!

My blog is in French but my friend
as a site in English
http://oliviabauer.ws

We wanted to have a hosting at Dreamhost, but after reading your blog, I thing I will go to AN HOSTING.
May we have only one account for two persons? Or do we take two accounts?

Thank you for your usefull blog.

steve, I’ve experienced a couple of hiccups with Midphase, but nothing like what you’re talking about, and nothing like other hosts I’ve been with (especially DreamHost).

I have had midphase for 6 months and there servers are always going down. I have used many other web hosting services and i went to midphase because of there price and the amount of services they offer. Well it was to good to be true. My sites have been down so many times as well sometimes their servers are very slow.

Pay the extra money and go somewhere else. I am moving even though I have 6 months left, I cannot afford to have my sites down as much as they are with Midphase.

If you are working with some package, like gallery, or dojo, there are tons of small files, the long waiting time for ftp transfer would drive you nuts.

With SSH, just ssh to the server, and unzip the package.

which is how i foud this site searching midphase sucks and as of now has a lot more results than the article says