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Who Hosts Your Blog?

Posted by John Saddington on Jan 15, 2009

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“So… John, who hosts your blogs?”

I get that question a lot.

The quick and dirty answer is that I use a MediaTemple and their (dv) EXTREME service with upgraded memory to boot.

Do the math and you’ll see that I’m forking over quite a few pennies every month.

But, apparently it’s working great for a number *ahem* of the sites that I run.

I share all of this because I would never recommend their (gs) Grid-Service shared-hosting platform… just their (dv) and above.

But, let’s say that you can’t just walk up to your blogger buddy and ask them a question about their hosting provider… or you’re not connected with that uber famous blogger on twitter and are too afraid to ask them what they’re using… but you love their blog and their site and want to use everything they’re using.

What to do…?

Try WhoIsHostingThis.com.

whoishostingthis_logoA simple service where you input the web address of a site and it spits back to you who they are using to host their service.

Pretty simple, straightforward. No secrets, no nothing.

Whoa… looks like I’m in good company…!

I’m digging my hosting provider.

So, who do you use?

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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25 Responses to “Who Hosts Your Blog?”

  1. Jim
    Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    Nexcess.net the mini-me package with 5 domains.

    Reply
  2. dewde
    Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    if i had half the opinion of you that you have of yourself, it would still be higher than my actual opinion of you.

    dork.

    peace|dewde

    Reply
  3. Daniel_Berman
    Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    inmotionhosting.com for the Issachar Network, and wordpress.com for my blog…

    Reply
  4. don
    Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    I have been using godaddy (I know, cliche, right?) for a couple reasons. I need a new Drupal or Wordpress install? They do it for me, free.
    I also pay for unlimited transfer and space for about $14/month.

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 8:45 pm

      dreamhost can do that cheaper… :)

      but, if it works, it works!

      Reply
  5. Graham Brenna
    Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    bluehost.com it works really well with wordpress.org and has the scripts for wordpress updates whenever available. It gives me unlimited space and all that for fairly cheap!

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 8:45 pm

      yeah, i've heard good thing.s

      Reply
  6. Jon Griffiths
    Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    bluehost.com

    Reply
  7. Robert
    Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    John,

    I'm glad you're having a good experience at MT. As for me, I had to move from them. Too many out of memory errors that traced back to them and not our code or setup. We moved to slicehost.com, who just recently was bought out by Rackspace. So far so good.

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    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2:50 pm

      if it works, it works.!

      Reply
  8. sullied
    Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 9:51 pm

    cool resource find John, I use DreamHost

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    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2:51 pm

      good place to start. if you start going VPS… jump ship.

      Reply
  9. dsingletary911
    Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    media temple (dv) Base Level

    Reply
  10. dewde
    Friday, January 16, 2009 at 2:25 am

    i use http://www.brinkster.comfor personal/shared hosting and we have a few sites on a dedicated server at http://www.1and1.combut lately we've been getting crummy customer service from 1 and 1.

    peace|dewde

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  11. dewde
    Friday, January 16, 2009 at 2:27 am

    i use http://www.brinkster.com for personal/shared hosting for Windows and .Net flavored sites. We (ministry) have a few sites on a dedicated server at http://www.1and1.com but lately we've been getting crummy customer service from 1 and 1.

    peace|dewde

    Reply
  12. Ryan
    Friday, January 16, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    Anyone else try to look really closely and see if you could figure out what the other domain names were? As for me, hostIcan(t)… however, I'm planning on leaving as soon as I get the nerve to transfer my 10 WP sites to a new server…

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2:51 pm

      hehe. i just added 2 more…!

      Reply
  13. Aaron
    Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2:49 am

    Currently using glob@t, but if I had it to do over again, I'd choose DreamHost. (Currently paid up for the rest of the year.)

    Reply