About a year ago I switched away from my original host Bluehost.com. They were terrible. Roughly 1 in 3 times in attempting to access one of my websites the site would be unavailable. I was forced to change hosts.
So, I moved to the once excellent HostRocket.com. I stayed with them for a year during which time things were slow. Gradually the reliability of the host tanked. Speaking to support they assured me things were being resolved. While the people were friendly, they simply didn’t make good on their promises. Not to mention waiting for 10-15 minutes on hold every time something went wrong, and hearing the most obnoxious hold-music I’ve ever heard in my life. After my business site was down for nearly 36 hours over two separate occasions within a couple months I once again had no choice but to jump ship to another host.
As a business owner this is very, very frustrating. It consumes time that I don’t have and makes my business look unprofessional when customers attempt to find our site and are denied for one reason or another.
So, this time doing what I should have done quite some time ago, I got onto a webhosting forum and asked about reliable hosts. The community seemed agreed on a few hosts that one should feel comfortable trusting and so I took their recommendation and moved over.
This post is the first on the new host. So, wish me luck… again.
