I may as well add my bit about WH4L. I've written extensively about them in various threads and forums, but haven't really added anything since moving from a shared Premium to an Advanced VPS account.The claimed 99.9% uptime is easily met on my current VPS account, but the shared account was as low as 90% for DNN sites.
I should point out that I want total flexibility to create as many sites as I want, add any number of domains, email, databases, both MS and MySQL and run and manage both DNN sites and PHP sites in the same place. Full control over DNS has also been beneficial in that I use Google Apps for Domain to host email for some clients now.
My judgement of WH4L is:
- Shared accounts - Ok for PHP/static sites, rubbish for DNN!
- Semi-dedicated VPS - Like a shared account that works, but no PHP!
- Advanced VPS - Top notch, all the features, install anything I want, and with real performance
Last month's uptime on my Advanced VPS: 99.96% Downtime:15 min, 34 sec (was upgrading DNN to 4.51) - The server never goes down. The MySQL server has gone down for a few minutes twice.
- Control panel - I think it's excellent and very powerful
- Apps are always kept up to date, phpMyAdmin, Smartermail.. everything is always upgraded, DNN 4.51 is on the auto-installer.
- Support - They mean well.. and they do try and fix your problems... but man!! They just can't communicate.
In all seriousness however.. most other VPS hosting I looked at didnt' even offer any included support... so If I was going to get the same suport as I had been getting all along on my cheapie account, I decided that would be fine. Now I'm 5 months into the VPS and it is fine.
Also.. I ran hundreds of tests using iwebtools speedtest over the years.
This is the response time of a bunch of domains on the shared account:
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Load time (secs)
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2.67 seconds
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8.54 seconds
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11.54 seconds
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20.23 seconds
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9.63 seconds
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3.61 seconds
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9.32 seconds
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6.12 seconds
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0 seconds
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Load time (secs)
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2.56 seconds
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6.99 seconds
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6.69 seconds
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8.26 seconds
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8.15 seconds
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14.96 seconds
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6.01 seconds
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1.08 seconds
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0 seconds
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And this is now on the VPS:
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Load time (secs)
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0.51 seconds
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0.78 seconds
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0.74 seconds
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0.59 seconds
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0.82 seconds
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1.04 seconds
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0.63 seconds
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0.48 seconds
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1.67 seconds
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1.88 seconds
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Load time (secs)
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0.52 seconds
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0.78 seconds
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0.71 seconds
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0.44 seconds
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0.79 seconds
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1.05 seconds
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0.63 seconds
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0.47 seconds
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1.53 seconds
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1.83 seconds
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Those last two sites are Access db sites.
Mitchel, if you want a look into my account, let me know and I'll set you up with a login.
Rob