Better Hosting Wanted
Sunday, July 16th 2006 | Ismael Ghalimi
This blog has been running off a Yahoo! Small Business account since January 3rd, when I migrated from TypePad to WordPress, following the advice of my friend, investor, and fellow blogger Jeff Clavier. Nevertheless, hosting on Yahoo! has been brittle at best, and time has come for a change.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the service offered by Yahoo!, but it’s just awefully slow, and some HTTP requests occasionally time out. This can lead to the loss of content developed on WordPress, which can in turn get very frustrating when you’ve been toiling for hours on this long overdue post.
I originally assumed this to be a characteristic of WordPress itself, but I had to face a different reality when I used a locally-deployed instance of WordPress for developing the intalio.com website, as documented on this past article. WordPress can be really fast when served from the proper infrastructure. I have no idea what’s wrong with Yahoo!, be it overloaded servers or insufficient bandwidth, but the reality is that I do not get the quality of service that I am expecting at this point.
This is where I need your help. If you know a good Internet Service Provider that offers hosting for WordPress and Ruby on Rails, please let me know. I need a plan that can support a fixed IP address, for I do not want to do a transfer of domain name. Also, my budget is quite limited, so a dedicated server is not an option, unless it comes at a steeply discounted price. And if you happen to be working for an ISP and would like to sponsor this blog in exchange for some free advertising, feel free to make me an offer.
Entry filed under: Office 2.0
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Check out OpenSourceHosting — I find them reliable, responsive, and they’ll install anything OSS you want. They’ll even fix FUd WordPress databases, as they had to for me last month when everything went pear shaped due to buggy plug-ins.
Dennis,
Thanks for the tip!
Ismael,
I have been using TotalChoiceHosting for a number years, and have been very satisfied with them. They have recently added Ruby on Rails, you can now use Fantastico to load WordPress (I had to install it myself), and they do support fixed IP addresses.
Hope it works for you as it does for me.
-Ryan
Ryan,
Thank you for the recommendation. It seems like a very good choice indeed. That being said, the Zoho folks have offered to host the blog and other applications on their own servers. They’re adding about 50 new servers a week, they’re local, and they tend to be extremely reactive when something does not work, so I guess I’ll go for this option.
Many thanks to Bruce, Dennis and Ryan for their help!
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