<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>I realize this is anecdotal, but I have been extremely happy with Webfaction for shared hosting for the past several years. The pricing is reasonable (you pay based on RAM); technical support is consistently fast, responsive and helpful; the web-based admin is powerful (a few clicks to spin up a Wordpress installation); you get SSH access and can install arbitrary software; unlimited mailboxes/email addresses accessible via POP, IMAP and webmail (RoundCube or SquirrelMail); email spam filtering is quite good; and uptime/performance is excellent for a shared server (they don't overload the servers).</div><div><br></div><div>The only technical downside is that they don't do domain registration.</div><div><br></div><div>HTH.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Kind Regards,<br>Ryan McGreal</div></div> <br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca> <br>Date: 10-03-2013 2:00 AM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: kwlug-disc@kwlug.org <br>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Evaluating webhosting <br> <br><br>This is not really offtopic, since the desire is to do some Wordpress<br>hosting, as well as some email. It may be a contentious topic, since<br>there is so much choice (and I believe some people on this list offer<br>webhosting services). <br><br>Anyways, I was recently asked about webhosting for a business. The<br>person in question has a simple Wordpress site and three email<br>accounts. She has hosting already (with Clickhost) but is unhappy with<br>them because their email went down for a week -- so reliability and<br>security (whatever "security" means) are important to her. I am pretty<br>sure she wants shared hosting, as opposed to colocation or a VPS. She<br>just wants a website and email, not to be a sysadmin. <br><br>I am kind of lost about what to tell her. There are so many hosting<br>companies out there, and evaluating what ones are good (and what<br>criteria to use in evaluating them) makes my head spin. Anecdotes and<br>word of mouth are two tools for suggesting webhosts, but are there<br>other ways to come to good decisions about this?<br><br>- Paul<br><br><br>-- <br>http://pnijjar.freeshell.org<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br>kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br></body>