Yesterday at WordCamp Portland, Mark Jaquith gave a presentation covering a bunch of blogging tips… one thing he touched on was web hosting and he offered up what he calls his shrimp dinner test for web hosting:
If you’d hesitate to eat a shrimp dinner for the price you pay for monthly web hosting, upgrade.
I often talk with photographers and other folks whose businesses depend on internet presence and am sometimes surprised that they skimp on web hosting. In 2010, your website is your storefront… hours of downtime means lost business.
Last October at BlogWorld, I met Darin from InMotion Hosting and he got me setup with an account to try out their services. Things were great and I moved all of my sites to InMotion about a year ago; I’ve been really impressed. In that time I can only recall one period of unexpected downtime and it only lasted a couple hours. I recommend InMotion for anyone needing solid web hosting (and that’s why I am an InMotion affiliate). If you’re on a super-cheap shared hosting plan and frustrated with reliability problems or downtime, I’d definitely consider a hosting upgrade.
Have questions about web hosting? Wondering what to do? Just leave a comment or contact me directly… I’m happy to help.
