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Posted by Paul B | August 2, 2007 .

It’s slightly unfortunate for one on my current hosts that I was due to post today about the importance of good website hosting. I’d go as far to say that’s it’s critical that you find a reliable company to host your money making websites. Anytime your website is down you’re not making money, if there’s one thing that really gets on my t!ts it’s not making money. Due to the majority of my websites being down for more than 8 hours this post is now going to be hijacked and turned into a who not to host your website with if you’re planning on making money from the net post.

1. MidPhase - My current “bulk” host. I’ve been using their shared hosting for nearly a year now and for 8 months it was great. However for the last 4 months it’s been a bloody nightmare. You’ll notice that this site isn’t hosted with them. My websites are down at least 24 hours a month, not 24 minutes but a whole 24 hours! That’s shockingly bad in terms of website hosting. This affects search results, Google Page Rank, visitor experience not to mention those vital PPC clicks. This morning has been even worse, its cost me a Text Link Ads placement worth $100. The last 8 hours has cost me over $220 altogether, I’ll get my hosting for free this month but it’s just not worth the trouble. And that’s if I price my time at having to chase them as being free.

2. M6.net - The buggiest control panel in history. Before moving to MidPhase my money makes were all hosted on M6.net, to be fair to them their support response time was good, unfortunately you had to contact them about EVERYTHING as the custom control panel they had developed was a shocker. I still use them for 1 clients website, but it is hardly ever updated and just ticks along. Not recommended at all if you’re likely to be making changes to your websites.

This time next month it looks like I’m going to be on a dedicated server, it’s not like I’ve sourced the cheapest hosts out there but the whole thing has become a false economy. Everybody seems to promise 99.9% uptime, but does anybody actually deliver it, please let me know?

Before I finish I’d like to mention Discountasp.net Simply the don of shared .net hosting. My very first website was hosted with discountasp.net and they have been brilliant all along. If only they had multiple domain hosting I’d transfer all my domains to them in a minute, as it stands I’m going to be splashing some cash on my own dedicated server instead.

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  1. make money online UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6  August 4, 2007 4:19 pm

    You absolutely have to keep the site up, especially if you are new to the web and trying to establish a presence. Any hiccup and your readers will bolt. At least for the first 3 months, everything has to be practically perfect. Good post.

  2. 3 Months Free Hosting UNITED STATES WordPress 2.2.1  September 26, 2007 9:21 am

    [...] end I decided that cheap paid hosting* with a WordPress install would be good. Now I’ve let my feelings about Midphase by known in the past, I had a really rough time with them. In a strange twist of fate one of my [...]

  3. AlexRect UNITED STATES Windows XP Internet Explorer 6.0  October 1, 2007 10:00 pm

    How many sites do you run?