Hosting Service Provider Rating

Hosting Service Provider Rating

We made a short review of several most common hosting service providers based on our real working experience installing iAuto on them. This list is entirely subjective and reflects our past dealing with our clients hosted with them.

1. HostForWeb.com

Pros: Our choice for the hosting service provider. Ideal for iAuto, very friendly and cooperative support.

Cons: None. They are too good to be true.

2. InMotion Hosting

Pros: Good hosting offers, reasonable packages.

Cons: No IonCube for shared hosting accounts, no willingness from support to install IonCube based on customer requests. Won’t work with our software.

3. Blue Host

Pros: Good hosting, offers SSH, reasonable packages. Offers MySQL v.5.

Cons: None.

4. Lunarpages

Pros: Good company, fast and reliable support, good packages. Offers MySQL v.4, v.5.

Cons: Does not offer SSH for basic accounts, otherwise great.

5. godaddy.com

Pros: Inexpensive, offers good terms for clients.

Cons: There are some difficulties with installation of our software on this hosting. Doesn’t have an archive extractor, non-cooperative support. No IonCube.

6. Host Excellence

Pros: Offers PHP 5.

Cons: Unreliable, slow and untrained support.

7. HostMonster

Pros: Good hosting, reliable support and reasonable packages. No problems with installing iAuto software so far.

Cons: None.

8. Yahoo

Pros: None.

Cons: Designed only for amateurs and static web pages. Won't work with our software.