New Orleans Internet Marketing

After struggling for years with the frustration of poor technical support, latency, and down-time, it appears that I’ve finally found the solution to my web hosting woes. Liquid Web’s Dedicated Servers have been nothing short of excellent for me so far. If you’re serious about your websites, and they are a source of income for you, it’s not worth the savings to buy cheap web hosting.

Here is the list of offenders:

• Aplus.net - the worst web hosting company I’ve used. Terrible technical support and regular downtime. They limit the number of PHP processes (???) causing 500 errors on database driven websites. And they don’t care about their customers at all, period.
• Media Temple - their marketing is hyped up way beyond what they can deliver. Significant down time, latency, long waits on hold for tech support., and database issues, especially on vbulletin forums.
• Mosso - sister company of Rackspace, offers what seems to be a great deal and cutting edge technology for people like myself that want to host a bunch of different websites, but when I started moving sites there I experienced latency issues with their databases. They admitted to it, and acted like it was a rare occurrence, but how should I know? I cancelled that account as well.
• Ipowerweb - poor technical support, not a lot of experience with them though.

So far, Liquidweb has put a dedicated server technician on the phone within 2 minutes of my call, no matter what time of day or night I’ve called. They were very helpful and professional, taking the time to help me diagnose even minor obscure server issues.

The server has been ultra fast, and had flawless up time. I have their free off-site backup configured, and a Raid 2 configuration that keeps a mirror copy of my hard drive available at all times. For extra added security, backups of important sites are stored on another server, and I use managed DNS to enable propogation-free switching between the two.

I can honestly say that moving to a reliable, managed, dedicated server company was one of the best business decisions I have made in a while. I did a lot of research on web hosting forums before I made the decision, talking to people about their experiences and searching through old reviews. Liquid Web was one of the few that had lots of really good reviews and few negatives.

http://www.liquidweb.com