Too Many Sites in One Basket

I had another bad day with my web hosting company this morning. The six sites I have hosted with them all went down for about two hours. This is the second time in less than a week my sites went offline. Something is going on. I'm actually tempted to move my sites, but I worked with other hosts in the past and they all have problems at one time or another.

A high price doesn't necessarily mean the web host is immune to outages. One company I worked at had its site hosted with a company that owns part of the Internet backbone (a lot of hosting companies use their backbone to connect to the Internet). I think the company was paying $100 a month for a shared hosting plan (too much in my opinion). Guess what? Once, our site was down for almost two days! My current host charges less $6 a month and my sites have never been down for more than a couple of hours. However, when they do go down, it is very annoying.

I have realized something though. I may have too many eggs in one basket. I really shouldn't have six sites hosted with one company. I really should spread them around to other web hosting companies. That way if one host has a problem, they don't bring down all of my sites. However, it is a major hassle to move so I'm not quite ready to move any of them yet. But I thought I should update a list of web hosts I compiled last year. It's located below. Keep in mind for the hosts that have "no" under WordPress, that doesn't mean they don't have WordPress installed. It just means I couldn't find any info about it on their site. Even if they don't have WordPress, that doesn't mean you can't download it yourself and install it.

Note: The monthly rate is for annual plans. Also, most hosts don't charge a setup fee for annual plan, except for One World ($15).