Large hosts or small ones?

**WebIntellects-R** · May 24th, 2011, 09:17

Willing to know the people's will, I would like to ask the question: will you rather prefer dealing with large hosts than getting service from smaller ones?

Give your reason please.

I have already got some notion, but now I shall try keeping it in secret until I receive couple of answers.

thanks in advance

**sander k** · May 25th, 2011, 09:39

I would say big. They have proven them selfs in the past.

**theraptor** · May 25th, 2011, 19:14

shared hosting - go small to medium, you will get better service in my experience
vps / dedicated servers - go medium to large, you will get rates in my experience

thats what ive seen from personal experience, I don't know if this is true for anyone else.

**SiberForum** · May 26th, 2011, 09:41

would say big. They have proven them selfs in the past.

To my mind the sized doesn't mean anything. The host might be trusted for long time but be rather middle-sized. I think the reliability doesn't depend on the size, maximum it is a backward dependence, when the size means lower reliability.

**WebIntellects-R** · June 1st, 2011, 09:02

Thanks. Though I was waiting for more active discussion, I think I am able to build some conclusions for now. Still welcome for posting.

**HostMafia** · June 2nd, 2011, 07:12

for start, go with small hostings, as they offer cheap prices and good support.
For security,reliability and large hosting i would suggest big cloud hostings. cloud hostings are better and cheaper than vps in my experience, you pay only what you use.

**[JSH]John** · June 2nd, 2011, 16:28

I tend to go with small/medium hosts that I know have been around for a while.

**WebIntellects-R** · June 6th, 2011, 04:43

for start, go with small hostings, as they offer cheap prices and good support.

I think here it is slightly another aspect to discuss. The big providers, also offer starter plans of minimum amount of resources, but the quality comes out of their servers and their customer care, which is to my mind higher at middle-sized hosts. AS wells the security and reliability is also available indepedently on the size, but is more likely to be provided by smaller hosts which haму good establishment.

**WebIntellects-R** · June 9th, 2011, 09:15

No news for three days. is there any interest for the topic here? I have noticed the activity has gone down lately, unlike it has been before, when the threads were refreshed each day. For now there are neither threads, nor posts in this section. Why?

**realstar** · June 10th, 2011, 01:14

I tend to go with small/medium hosts are better

**worlditsme** · June 12th, 2011, 18:27

I would have to agree, too big a host often means you can wait ages getting through to a call centre in some cases.

**Pingness** · June 13th, 2011, 05:00

Depends. I've been with some large ones (FatCow) and they were pretty bad. I've been with small ones and lost my data. Trick is to look for medium sized but reputable ones.

**WebIntellects-R** · June 14th, 2011, 08:47

Sure, the host which is going to be used should be studied well. Before paying money you just have to make a homework for knowing more of their quality. But still small hosts appears to be more trustworthy.

**fcolor** · June 19th, 2011, 10:59

It really depends what anyone wants. If you want to be important customer and to enjoy any special treatment, you'd better go with smaller or middle-sized company. It makes sense to go with a large, corporate provider only if it offers any service on an infrastructure level that smaller web hosts can not provide.

**WebIntellects-R** · June 22nd, 2011, 01:07

Originally Posted by fcolor

It really depends what anyone wants. If you want to be important customer and to enjoy any special treatment, you'd better go with smaller or middle-sized company. It makes sense to go with a large, corporate provider only if it offers any service on an infrastructure level that smaller web hosts can not provide.

Indeed. But I actually do not think "being the important customer" is the only advantage of middle-sized providers. Actually shared hosting is often unreasonable, even despite of being cheap, at large hosts as they simply don't care of small clients to my mind. Corporates, which order the whole racks for their service, cannot be missed by the attention of hosts, who are making their main income due to such orders, but when you just a regular site owner, you are most likely served by the machine alone, what causes unwarned account suspensions or other unpleasant things.