All:
I have been considering
A2Hosting for a client's new WordPress-based e-commerce store, which will be selling (extremely lightweight) digital content. However, upon recommendations here and elsewhere, I am now looking at
Namecheap (via
web-hosting.com brand) and StableHost.
There will be only one domain hosted here. I will be enabling SSL for all traffic to the main site; images that will be distributed in the end content will be hosted on a subdomain. Shared hosting should be fine for this project for the foreseeable future. My priorities include:
- Good uptime
- Good support
- Non-overloaded servers with good IO, SSD preferred
This won't be highly disk space-consuming. I would prefer faster storage to more storage.
What I like about
Namecheap:
- Price, extremely reasonable at $3.95/mo on a 12mo contract
- $2/mo dedicated IP
- offering $8.95 SSL certs, presumably with little effort to integrate (however, I'm already considering a RapidSSL cert from them at $10.95/yr, I prefer GeoTrust to Comodo)
- Reviews here indicate they're generous with resources
What I like about StableHost:
- SSD storage
- Daily backups (while I intend to manage my own at-least-weekly backups, this is helpful)
- Litespeed
What I dislike about StableHost:
- Less storage than Namecheap, though I don't see this project consuming it
- SSH access is an additional fee (though $2.50 one time is not a big deal)
- $1/mo more for a dedicated IP (still peanuts)
- Their CloudFlare docs are convoluted - can't tell if they're an actual Optimized partner, and they claim that it only works with CNAMEs (WTF?)
What I like about
A2Hosting:
- Daily backups
- Extra security, or so they claim
- SSD
- SSH included
- Attracta
I am open to other suggestions as well. This site will be optimized as much as possible and is using a lightweight theme.
Thanks!
e: Also considering
VeeroTech - free dedicated IP and SSL are attractive along with the features they share with the others. They have some offers going that would make them as cheap or cheaper than others with their free included SSL/dedicated IP (I saw mention of this elsewhere, but not on their main site).