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Eleven2 or ThisWebHost?


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Hey!

So I'm about to change hosts, and I need some feedback.

I'm planning to switch to Eleven2 or ThisWebHost.

Between both of them, which do you think is better?

http://www.eleven2.com/shared-web-hosting/

Eleven 2 offers unlimited disk space and bandwidth at $10 and I know that the unlimited disk space and bandwidth offer is crap, I'm more towards the speed and support.

http://www.thiswebhost.com/order.html

ThisWebHost on the other hand offers five different packages, but most probably if I choose ThisWebHost, I'll take the medium package which is $9.99. It offers 120GB bandwidth and 5Gb storage.

So anyone?

Thanks :p

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The sheer fact that Eleven2 offers "unlimited" disk space and bandwidth is enough for me to say to not go with them at all. When you use that gimmick to obtain more clients, you run into servers that are overloaded and unable to handle the clients.

I've heard of either of them for a few years now so honestly, your second choice is the best. They're more logical and detail orientated.

BTW few days late in responding so not sure if you've already made your decision or not ;)

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Do a simple test, come up with 5 or 6 questions about their hosting. Fire them off to the support and see which comes back the quickest and with decent answers then go with them.

Bar any major down time, all hosts will have little outages every now and then so you're unlikely to find either better in terms of reliability so go with the one that appears to give you the best results for when things aren't going well - i.e the speed of the support.

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No I haven't.

I've got 3 months to really think it out.

Just a additional question, really how hard is it to manage a VPS?

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No I haven't.

I've got 3 months to really think it out.

Just a additional question, really how hard is it to manage a VPS?

If you need to ask, it's probably pretty hard ;)

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If you need to ask, it's probably pretty hard ;)

Ouch, then its shared hosting all the way.

Thanks for helping out :D

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If you need to ask, it's probably pretty hard ;)

That's quite untrue. Just because on asks doesn't mean that they'd have a difficult time learning from trial and error and/or simply reading around.

This is the only way you'd ever learn and if everyone took the approach "if you have to ask, you don't need it" then no one would get anywhere beyond what they already know.

A VPS is typically unmanaged which means that you're responsible for updating it, maintaining it and resolving any issues that occur from your usage on it. If you go with a cPanel/WHM based VPS, this would definitely make your life a lot easier. I've always been a huge fan of cPanel/WHM and would never recommend any other control panel over it.

All of your basic functionality is right there. You can recompile Apache/MySQL/PHP through EasyApache3 with some quick clickthroughs or you can use a preconfigured build. You'll have access to root PHPMyAdmin, restarting any services, etc.

While I recommend messing through cPanel, it can't hurt to also get used to SSH/root commands from a console. This is what will help you learn the most. Not only that but almost any issue, you can google and find results that will resolve your problems. Your major key is webhostingtalk.com, you will without a doubt, always receive knowledgable help from them if Google fails.

That being said you're looking at a price increase of $20-30+ just for the VPS and another $10-15 for a cPanel license. So if you are okay with a $40-50/mo budget, then by all means, jump into it.

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I disagree, an inexperienced user has no business running a public VPS, unless they don't mind it being compromised. Everyone has to start somewhere, but that place is on a private local server.

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I disagree, an inexperienced user has no business running a public VPS, unless they don't mind it being compromised. Everyone has to start somewhere, but that place is on a private local server.

I disagree with you. There are no requirements as to how one should "start," and the chances of a VPS being compromised are pretty low unless you've got a high targeted website. The VPS itself will already have it's own security measures in place from the software being utilized whether it's Virtuozzo or OpenVZ et al then couple that with the VPS software like vePortal, SolusVM, et al.

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I see a lot of disagrees. :laugh:

Anyway, I'm going to stick with my current shared hosting account until I find something way better.

Not too sure about the VPS thing just yet.

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