Which hosting for Joomla 3.6?

[tigger]

Hello,

I have a Joomla 3.6 website with the following statistics:

* Users: 160K/month
* Disk: 25GB
* Monthly bandwith: 150GB
* Several email accounts
* 2 MySQL databases
* CPanel
* Extensions (PHP-based): Acymailing (35K users), Hikashop, etc.

I'm searching for a hosting plan and I got different suggestions from different host companies, from cloud hosting to dedicated servers, with a wide range of prices.

Can anyone advise on a reliable, cost-effective solution?

Thank you so much for helping.

[kimi123]

hi,

try UniqueStar Host, they are providing best services and maximum up time.

Regards
KIM

[tigger]

Yeah, that's great. Without any supporting evidence that that company meets this website's needs, anyone can advise whatever hosting company.
Thank you.

[ribo]

Find a webhost with location to your continent and to be joomla friendly. Also good is when they update their php versions and have Cpanel. Of cource the good support is a must too.

[kimi123]

What kind of evidence are you looking for?

I am using hosting from this company from 3 years, I have uploaded more than 75GB data and on my site have near 3500-4500 daily visitors.

i never see any issue with hosting and my hosting is Joomla supported.

[muddauber]

Consider Rochen Hosting, they know Joomla inside and out, and they host Joomla.org. they now have
pretty competitive solutions.

[tigger]

Thanks Ribo, that's useful information.
More than web host names, I'm looking for server specifications in terms of:
* Shared/dedicated
* Cloud hosting
* CPU capacity
* RAM capacity
* Bandwidth
* Evidence of good support
* Evidence of Joomla knowledge/experience.

Thank you so much!

[Gany]

That's a LOT of bandwidth you're using.
I'm quite happy with Hostgator, but your bandwidth automatically refers you to their gold plan at $35/month. You could go for unlimited on business plan, but that is shared hosting. I don't recommend that, shared hosting is only good for smaller beginning sites.

[tigger]

Hello Gany,

That's great info!

So far this is what I've learned: No shared, in my continent, with at least 150GB bandwidth.

I was looking at the cloud hosting of Siteground entry plan (https://www.siteground.com/cloud-hosting.htm)

But the price of Hostgator's Baby Cloud seems a lot cheaper (http://www.hostgator.com/cloud-hosting)

Will this plan work for this site?

Thanks a lot for your help!

[ribo]

As i understand these two offers are not the same to compare them . Before deal with anyone ask many things. For example , are they oversold ram, cpu?

[tigger]

Thanks, that's why independent advice is important.
It us intimadating to deal with hosting services that provide hosting with the same name but different service.
The "unmetered" in Hostgator seems a bit tricky, so I'm more inclined to other options.

[Gany]

If you go with one of the biggies (Hostgator, Siteground, Rochen, etc.) you won't get problems with cpu or overselling. These guys won't do that, it would hurt their business. Godaddy is a different story. I hear lots of things about them, none of them good.
Unmetered in Hostgator is exactly that. The downside (there always is one) is that they won't back it up automatically.
Shared = cheap, and that has always problems. The biggest is that you share the server. If another site is doing porn or gambling, you can get penalized for it. Same for viruses. Another sites gets infected, all sites on that shared server are tagged as infected.
VPS = very expensive. Only interesting if you have a large budget available. Think about $50-100/monthly.

[tigger]

Thanks a lot, this is really interesting to know.
Is "cloud hosting" shared or private?

[ribo]

The biggest is that you share the server. If another site is doing porn or gambling, you can get penalized for it.

Your example is wrong. The problem with penalized is not the same server but the same ip . You can have different ip in a shared host

[tigger]

I tried Siteground Cloud Hosting for a week, with the promise "Just give us your CPanel password and we'll transfer your site for you".
Well, one week later and despite lots of technical issues, I had to give up. The site was not only not trasferred but had lots of issues, files were incorrectly transferred and the site version was outdated.
I had no other option that cancelling my account and request a refund.
Siteground customer service promised a refund, but a week later refused the refund...
Well, anyway, I've just lost my time and €48.
In compensation, I moved the site to Liquid Web and, so far, everything is smooth and perfect.
The tecnhical support of Liquid Web is beyond outstanding and I'd recommend it to anyone serious about web development with Joomla.

I don't intend to badmouth Siteground or any other company, but since my experience has been so frustrating I'd like to share with other people, so they're more careful than I was.