My debate with Reseller Hosting Accounts

[mneylon]

A domain reseller account gives you a lot more control over how you handle domains for your clients.

 

[Davthalas]

generally i tend to stay away from irish hosts (no offence to our friends at blacknight.ie). Its simply just too expensive and doesn't really provide much.

US hosting is usually a good way to go but be sure to test the response times between the hosting companys server and yours here in Ireland using a traceroute or ping in your windows run command.

 

[hosting365]

No offense taken, but what is too expensive about Irish hosting?

 

[Tom]

I just compared my US shared hosting package with your enterprise package H365 (because it's the closest in similarity specs wise). I was expecting a bigger difference in specs/price but they actually compare better than I thought they would. Note I haven't hosted with H365 so I can't compare quality of service.

The comparison below I'm sure is typical (probably worse) specs and price wise between most US vs Irish hosting packages, just different scales.

Comparison: My US hosting is $7.95pm and Irish package is €9.95pm (small saving there). US host provides 20,000mb storage and 400gb bandwidth vs 10,000mb/100gb, they also provide unlimited emails vs 250/1gb. All other specs are pretty much the same however your package does allow 25 extra domains to be hosted (big plus there imo) and it is Irish based so it does seem to even out pretty well from an Irish perspective.

Overall I'm pretty happy with my current US host though, differences with page load times are slight, uptime is good, customer support is good and once your domain is .ie, hosting in Ireland doesn't seem to add all that much more in SEO weight, from what I see at least. Having said all that for critically important websites I'd always choose Irish hosting above US hosting, for the slight extra speed, slight SEO advantages, possibly because of the same timezone, possibly because the client base is smaller (not over populated) and of course it's always good to support local businesses.

 

[hosting365]

Out of interest, who are the US host?

 

[Tom]

I'd rather not say, I'm sure it could be found out easy enough but I'd rather not broadcast it myself for security etc. I'll pm you though.

 

[mneylon]

I'd rather not say, I'm sure it could be found out easy enough but I'd rather not broadcast it myself for security etc..

Security?

How the hell can security be affected by stating which hosting company you are using?

 

[Tom]

I know it's a bit silly but I feel more comfortable not stating certain things. For example I wouldn't publicly post what bank I use. It's probably not much harm but I wouldn't really do it all the same. Who knows whose lurking in the shadows waiting to launch a phishing attack on me! I know, I'm silly and over paranoid, I'll try to get over it.

 

[hosting365]

Paranoia is healthy, after all, it's not silly when they ARE out to get you!!

 

[mneylon]

Paranoia is healthy, after all, it's not silly when they ARE out to get you!!

Must be your way with people or something ...

 

[hosting365]

/me puts back on the tin-foil hat.

 

[mneylon]

/me puts back on the tin-foil hat.

I think I've had more legal threats than you this week

 

[ConorP]

I'd rather not say, I'm sure it could be found out easy enough but I'd rather not broadcast it myself for security etc. I'll pm you though.

I suspect in Ireland you have some hosting with Digiweb and in the US you could be using Hostnetway (Although their records for domains and crap is all over the place, hard to say for sure)

Well you are hosting in the NAC DC in New Jersey anyway.