HostNine 2-Day Summer Sale

June 22, 2015

Over the years I’ve built and hosted websites on various hosting companies. I used to create static websites using just Notepad when I started out and I still create static websites with my SiteBuilder Elite software. It was when I also started building WordPress sites that I found out just how many webhosts really were up to running WordPress sites. I had a lot of trouble with some well known webhosts with WordPress falling over for various reasons.

The cause of this is the amount of server resources WordPress uses. If you had anything other than a simple WP site (i.e. one with only a couple of plugins), the site would overuse the number of resources allocated to your account. The upshot: sites that were unreliable and often down.

Why You Should Be Careful About Choosing a Webhost

Then I came across HostNine 3 or 4 years ago and I’ve had no problems running WordPress sites ever since (they’re great for SiteBuilder Elite sites too!) Hostgator was my previous favorite webhost, but HostNine trump them.

I no longer use Shared webhosting accounts. One reason is that running several sites on addon domains can still strain your allocated server resources. Another it that, unless you create robots.txt files that are correctly set up, the search engines can crawl down into your addon domains from the primary domain and Google (particularly) can see what sites you own. So can hackers.

Another reason not to use shared hosting is that all your eggs are in one basket, so to speak. If your webserver goes down for some reason, all your sites go offline (this happened to me personally several times with some previous webhosts). All your sites are also on the same IP address and with shared webhosting, you and other customers using the same webserver will all have the same IP address. If that IP address gets blacklisted for some reason, every site in that IP address is blacklisted in turn.

So to avoid those issues, I use reseller hosting packages. While more expensive than a shared hosting package (typically 2.5x more expensive), instead of having one cPanel for all your sites, you get one cPanel per site. While there may be an administrative overhead in this, the benefit is that each website is walled off from every other website. Which means that if one site is hacked, you’re whole setup isn’t under threat. Google can also only see who owns your sites if you want to tell them. There are reasons you may not want Google knowing that you own a site which I won’t go into here.

What’s good about reseller hosting packages is that you can allocate whatever resources you want to a site, be that webspace and/or bandwidth. You can track just how much of each a site is using so you’ll instantly see which sites need more resources and which need less and you can tweak them as needed.

A reseller hosting package also gets a larger chunk of server resources than a shared hosting account. Running one WordPress blog on a single domain and cPanel account won’t bring down all your sites should one single site overuse the resources allocated to it.

And the killer thing about HostNine reseller accounts is that you can allocate each cPanel account to a separate IP address. Most webhosts will only allow you to add additional IP addresses if you buy them. With HostNine, you can choose from 8 datacenters around the world (2 in USA, 1 in Canada, 1 in UK, 1 in Europe, 2 in Asia, 1 in Australia) and within these, there are several Class C IP addresses allocated to new domains.

I highly recommend HostNine at any time of the year but they’re offering a great deal over the next 2 days (June 23 and 24) where they’re offering a 59% discount on hosting fees. I user the Reseller II package which normally costs $24.99 per month. Check the prices tomorrow and the next day for their discounted rates. If you buy a year’s hosting or more in advance, you’ll save even more.

I can’t recommend them enough. Their support is fantastic and queries are answered within a couple of hours. 90% of my sites are now hosted with them (I still have a couple of legacy sites hosted with Hostgator) and when I get the time, I’ll move my remaining sites over to them. All new sites I build are now on HostNine servers, including those I build for clients.

If you’re in the market for quality webhosting, strike while the iron is hot over the next 2 days! And don’t forget to use the SUMMER59 coupon code! 🙂