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InMotion Hosting: http://www.inmotionhosting.com/

I noticed several members of our MyBB community are clients of theirs, but it's absolutely sickening what they do;

Please note, the domains used in these samples do not belong to members here, I just grabbed domains that were also hosted here.

Quote:http://whois.domaintools.com/123niceguy.com

4,769 other sites hosted on this server.

Name Server.......... ns.inmotionhosting.com
Name Server.......... ns2.inmotionhosting.com

Quote:http://whois.domaintools.com/hairanalysisforhealth.com

5,160 other sites hosted on this server.

Name Server.......... ns.inmotionhosting.com
Name Server.......... ns2.inmotionhosting.com

4,769 clients on 1 server, and 5,160 on another?
That's absurd, and beyond over-sold.

Then what host should one use?

cnet gave it 3/3 pfft,,

(2012-01-13, 05:33 PM)Paul H. Wrote: [ -> ]http://community.mybb.com/thread-30827.html

You do realize that thread also contains a Hostgator recommendation?

^It renders the whole thread invalid.

Nothing wrong with Hostgator.

(2012-01-13, 05:24 PM)iDude Wrote: [ -> ]Then what host should one use?

cnet gave it 3/3 pfft,,

CNET giving it 3/3 can be meaningless.

I googled and couldn't find CNet's review, but if it's anything like this one:
http://www.techtola.com/2008/06/cnet-top...llent.html

There's no review on the technical details. How well do we know CNET tested InMotion? Do we know they did it with a fairly high traffic site/board?

Look at ollie's posting:
http://community.mybb.com/thread-111501.html

He uses In-Motion hosting, and is having trouble with only 60 - 110 users online at one time. Before my forums moved to VPS/Dedicated, one ran with about 200 online at time, on a shared.
Another ran with 400 online at a time, on a shared.

I may have paid more than ollie, from the looks of it, his service is 5.99 at In Motion Hosting.
Mine was 9.99

But the fact is, around 5,000 people per server just doesn't seem right.
Heck, I'd like Labrocca's opinion on this.
If he tells me I'm wrong, then I'll respect & accept that.

I still have a shared planned at 1and1.com, with only 70 clients.
But of course each host has their ups & downs, I don't find the customer service all that well there, but I feel I get more bang for my buck in terms of resources. In the past, they did limit to 100MB per database, that was a huge drawback, but since upgrading to 1GB, that's much less of an issue. If a database reaches near 1GB, which would be a long time anyway, then consider moving if you choose 1and1.

Even GoDaddy doesn't seem as bad now, they load on 2,000 people or so.

Bottom line, you get a smaller piece of the pie when its divided with more people. If you're okay with that, cool.

I wouldn't be.

(2012-01-13, 05:53 PM)Andre R. Wrote: [ -> ]Nothing wrong with Hostgator.

Everything is wrong with Hostgator, even if you don't host your site on it...
Feel free if you want details.

(2012-01-13, 06:33 PM)Ansem Wrote: [ -> ]

(2012-01-13, 05:53 PM)Andre R. Wrote: [ -> ]Nothing wrong with Hostgator.

Everything is wrong with Hostgator, even if you don't host your site on it...
Feel free if you want details.

No there really isn't. Don't take this thread off-topic into blind hatred for the most popular hosting provider in the world (I presume it is).

For the user who wanted hosting, I recommend Hawkhost.

More on-topic: That's completely mad, how have they not had a mass of complains regarding this? Do people really not check?

(2012-01-13, 06:15 PM)weBex Wrote: [ -> ]CNET giving it 3/3 can be meaningless.
There's no review on the technical details. How well do we know CNET tested InMotion? Do we know they did it with a fairly high traffic site/board?

I'd agree with that. Sometimes it seems they just go:

"price" -> good
"specs" (on paper) -> good
"upload a file to test download speed" -> good

"OK PEOPLE OF CNET THIS HOST IS AWSUM! 3/3 YEY! WOOP!"

No joke.

Hostgator is one big scam when it comes to privacy and license agreements and warez.
They have a lot of clients who do illegal activities or violates the licenses of other software, yet they do nothing about it, no matter what.
Once a site abused peoples e-mails, including mine.
After a month of sending e-mails with headers they still didnt agree so I got an independant lawyer and it took another month for the issue to be resolved and stopped, but the client was still there.
So give them the f-bomb.
No self-respecting hoster is able to do that.