05-04-2020, 10:15 AM
Hmm, the last time I used a reseller account is very very long time ago. Those days there were free hosting but they used to inject Footer or header banners to your website. Sometimes both. That was really bad. Then the first time I had a real shared hosting account, I bought it with forum currency of Namepros.com. Those days were the Golden days of forum currency. Specially from few forums with Namepros at top of the list. They had a system where you could buy and sell forum currency and also we could use it to buy domains form the forum. They had automated the whole system. So That become a really cool place where you can trade, buy and sell stuff without Paypal. Things like web hosting and back links. Those were the good old days forum signature links worth money. So I was I had a really good time. Selling signature links and site links and buying stuff i wanted. That when I started buying my first shared hosting accounts. One thing in common was most of those small shared hosting providers didn't last one.
Then I used Godaddy Shared hosting for years. price was good and we had plenty of resources to use. Problem with Godaddy was their custom control panel. That thing was slow also there were not many options. Plus they were changing interface and everything all the time. Support was terrible. They answered quickly but support staff people were not good at what they did. We could find better solutions by searching in Google. and my website empire became too big for their their shared accounts. Funny since they were advertising about unlimited resources but the small print said otherwise.
After that I moved to the world of VPS. Early days I had terrible experience with those cheap vps providers of the time. They would pop up and offer amazing deals and then vanish after couple of months. Well, if you look at the bright side, I become very good at moving sites/blogs/forums quickly from one place to another. Also learned to take regular backups of everything. These are the times I finally start seeing real need of control panels and benefit of managed hosting if you are not into server stuff full time. That's when I have started using managed vps for my client websites. Costly, but this reduce number of sleepless nights I had because of related problems. The next move was to finding a better managed vps providers. Because if you need managed vps then it means you want fast responses and support people who know what they are doing.
Anyway there was a time I had about 8 managed and un-managed VPS along with many paid shared accounting accounts. Plus bunch of free hosting accounts. Today I have downsized it to just 3 VPS. One Managed server at Knownhost and one Windows VPS at Host4Fun and this great server sponsored by Shadow Hosting at Post4vps. For those who looking for offshore hosting, Shadow Hosting has some really great locations.
Something I have learned from my years of using hosting and hard way is You have to be careful if you go for cheap hosting. Also You need to do your own backups whatever the providers say. 2 things I usually want from hosting providers were good support and stable servers without regular offline times. Today site speed has become a important factor so I want my sites to work fast too.
Then I used Godaddy Shared hosting for years. price was good and we had plenty of resources to use. Problem with Godaddy was their custom control panel. That thing was slow also there were not many options. Plus they were changing interface and everything all the time. Support was terrible. They answered quickly but support staff people were not good at what they did. We could find better solutions by searching in Google. and my website empire became too big for their their shared accounts. Funny since they were advertising about unlimited resources but the small print said otherwise.
After that I moved to the world of VPS. Early days I had terrible experience with those cheap vps providers of the time. They would pop up and offer amazing deals and then vanish after couple of months. Well, if you look at the bright side, I become very good at moving sites/blogs/forums quickly from one place to another. Also learned to take regular backups of everything. These are the times I finally start seeing real need of control panels and benefit of managed hosting if you are not into server stuff full time. That's when I have started using managed vps for my client websites. Costly, but this reduce number of sleepless nights I had because of related problems. The next move was to finding a better managed vps providers. Because if you need managed vps then it means you want fast responses and support people who know what they are doing.
Anyway there was a time I had about 8 managed and un-managed VPS along with many paid shared accounting accounts. Plus bunch of free hosting accounts. Today I have downsized it to just 3 VPS. One Managed server at Knownhost and one Windows VPS at Host4Fun and this great server sponsored by Shadow Hosting at Post4vps. For those who looking for offshore hosting, Shadow Hosting has some really great locations.
Something I have learned from my years of using hosting and hard way is You have to be careful if you go for cheap hosting. Also You need to do your own backups whatever the providers say. 2 things I usually want from hosting providers were good support and stable servers without regular offline times. Today site speed has become a important factor so I want my sites to work fast too.