Sorry for taking some time to do this post. I know that I owe my audience at least a post this month. Apart being soo tied up with the preparation of the my marriage, I am also busy with other internet business. Well here goes. I recently ordered a server upgrade from my hosting provider. As expected, there were problems which they couldn’t solve and as usual it took them more than a day (this only happened with my direct intervention and my instructions on how they could solve the problem). Simple problems that I believe if they use a little bit of intelligence, they could nail them immediately. They simply repeated the error message that I was fully well aware of without taking any proactive action to solve it. Again without the any appreciation that their customer who is me, were actually losing money from server downtime, they just played dumb and let the promblem persisted. This really frustrated me significantly. From this experience, you know that what I need is a good and solid support team who are familiar with technical design of a wordpress blog in addition to php scripts. Trust me these people only know how to operate WHM, Cpanel, updating server entries and server monitoring. They wouldn’t fix your blog php scripts error even though it’s caused by them.

The list of hosting providers on the internet is endless. Each one tries to offer the best package and support. Some even go to the extent of offering humongous data storage to entice customers. But what are real the main checklists before you decide to sign up for one? If you are thinking big…and hoping to operate a dedicated server, here’s the checkist:

• Hosting providers that only within a phone call’s away so if there is any technical issue that needs solved immediately, you can just do it over the phone!
• No hidden support charges. Well this hosting provider is offering server management at more than 5 levels.. They have bronze, silver, gold, platinum etc.
• Support team that can do server optimisation for your blog for free.
• If you are moving from a semi-dedicated server to a dedicated server, make sure that the dedicated server must at least have the same power of the semi-dedicater server. You can go from an Intel Xeon to just Pentium 4 or from having a 4Gb of memory to just 2 Gb on your dedicated server! Trust me, your traffic will choke..So it’s very very important to ask your hosting provider about the dedicated server and semi-dedicated server specs before making the move. Don’t be fooled by huge diskspace provider. The truth is you won’t be needing it. They may say that you can store musics and videos etc with a larger space.What with these heavy multimedia streaming files, you will need more bandwidth which is not cheap You will end up paying more for your server.

HOSTING PROVIDERS THAT HAVE BEEN GETTING MY ATTENTION ARE AS FOLLOWS (no affililate links)

MALAYSIAN

MERCUMAYA.NET 

SERVERFREAK.COM 

IPSERVERONE - Hosted at AIMS - Better than myloca, Cyberjaya as it has many backbones.

EXABYTES NETWORK - You can use coupon code calendar2008 for a 15% discount on all shared hosting plans. They only good for shared hosting plans.

UNITED STATES

LIQUID WEB 

Don’t host with Godaddy.com as google will not treat you nicely. If you are sharing the same IP as others (on dedicated server) and the others that you are sharing with involved in spamming activities, you will face problems. Most clients on godaddy.com are junior internet marketers who have tendency to carry out spamming.