http://www.fromthe21stfloor.com/law-legal/setting-up-shop-choosing-a-web-host-and-registering-your-domain/ Thoughts and Discussion Related to Marketing, Web, Social Media, and Business Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:21:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.fromthe21stfloor.com/law-legal/setting-up-shop-choosing-a-web-host-and-registering-your-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-92 tom sherman Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:45:35 +0000 http://clients.frederickfaulkner.com/21stfloorbeta/?p=45#comment-92 I used to host with Dreamhost. Then I got frustrated (as you did) but after giving them pass after pass, I switched. I researched many hosts but finally settled on Pair. Here's the most important advice I can give: <strong>find a host with limits.</strong> The old adage, "if it's too good to be true, it probably is" absolutely holds true with web hosting. If a host doesn't have reasonable limits on disk usage, bandwidth, and <em>especially</em> CPU cycles or memory usage, you <strong>will</strong> suffer from the tragedy of the commons on a shared box. That is a guarantee. So find a host with limits you can live with. I used to host with Dreamhost. Then I got frustrated (as you did) but after giving them pass after pass, I switched. I researched many hosts but finally settled on Pair.
Here’s the most important advice I can give: find a host with limits. The old adage, “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is” absolutely holds true with web hosting. If a host doesn’t have reasonable limits on disk usage, bandwidth, and especially CPU cycles or memory usage, you will suffer from the tragedy of the commons on a shared box. That is a guarantee.
So find a host with limits you can live with.

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