[TYPO3-english] Good Hosting company for Typo3

[Mathias Bolt Lesniak, LiliO Design]

Kia ora!

Being married to a Kiwi have some experience with how the Internet works (or doesn't) in New Zealand. Although I have no experience with hosting there, I'd recommend you to use an NZ hosting provider (I also think VPS or dedicated server is a good idea). Even when the price is higher than that of some US, Europe or Asian host, you're bound to lose much of the speed you pay for: Latency is a major problem when accessing overseas hosts from NZ. I did some basic testing last time I visited, and ping times from my location in Hawke's Bay was 300-350 ms to a US East Coast server. (Ouch! You need a very bad NZ host to beat that.) B-)

We have servers both in the US and UK, but for NZ clients (if we had any), I would use an NZ provider. No question about it!


Best wishes

Mathias Bolt Lesniak
LiliO - www.lilio.no
mathias at lilio.com



On 12. des. 2011, at 10:20, Alessandro Tuveri wrote:

> Yep
> at the end I bought VPS on CLOUD: http://www.host1plus.com
> offices are in UK and USA, but VPS are spread in the world, Singapore too.
> Eventually check if a VPS in Singapore can satisfy your needings.
> Do some ping tests.
> On my experience here in Italy there are many web agency that bought VPS/hosting on cloud in USA. I tried to investigate and discovered that this sites are almost static type and the speed test high.
> TYPO3 needs a good server and you customer should to know that a low cost hosting for static site cannot be compared with dynamic (php/mysql) site, then TYPO3 hosting should cost more than e normal site.
> 
> Quoting Richard Davies <richard at ocular.co.nz>:
> 
>> Hi Derik,
>> 
>> You are right, hosting is highly expensive in New Zealand. It doesn't have
>> big datacenters and bandwidth costs a LOT. We are a small company that, as
>> well as many other things, develops Typo3 websites in Wellington. We have a
>> server in Taranaki that we run our sites out of, I doubt we'd be able to
>> give you a good rate, but you can try to negotiate something with the
>> owner: results at ocular.co.nz.
>> 
>> Otherwise, http://www.openhost.co.nz/ charge 6.99 a month, which sounds
>> very good (for New Zealand standards).
>> http://www.webbase.co.nz/webhosting/are at 8.95 a month (unlimited
>> traffic). They both only have 500 meg space
>> but I'd imagine your site doesn't need that much for hosting. You'd have to
>> find out if they support all the things Typo3 needs (imgMagick etc). There
>> are many more hosting sites out there in New Zealand. Alessandro is right,
>> a delay on the backend is frustrating, and if you want to host a commercial
>> site you'd want to be in the country. I'd be interested to know how it
>> works out for you.
>> 
>> Richard
>> 
>> On 12 December 2011 09:09, Alessandro Tuveri <at at uniud.it> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> on my experience it is very important the speed parameter. If your
>>> customers feels the web very slow they are annoyed at the end.
>>> The login process in the BE often is very slow and if the site goes slow
>>> this is not a good choice.
>>> Recently I migrated some sites from a VPS located in Italy, where I
>>> reside, to a new VPS located in Germany. Before I made some speed test
>>> using ping several times and verified that the two servers (OLD and NEW)
>>> respond in the same way.
>>> Finally I bought the new service for one month only. Before a tried
>>> another VPS locate in Austria but 50% lower in speed. So I transfered one
>>> site in the NEW VPS (German) to test if all is ok.
>>> I believe that the best way to migrate your site is to:
>>> * buy a sever for one month
>>> * try it
>>> * migrate 1-3 hosts and then verify if all is ok
>>> 
>>> Best way for me is to buy a VPS on CLOUD, so that was my choice, I tested
>>> and found some TYPO3 hosting services, but nobody ensure some services
>>> (some are slow) like php version, updates (typo3/extensions, etc.) so i
>>> prefer to host my customers directly on my own VPS.
>>> Before I had a VPS not expandible, not scalable, this is bad ad it is not
>>> a good solution.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 11/12/2011 9:25 p.m., Mark Kuiphuis wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Whereabouts are you looking of getting hosting? For SEO and speed
>>>>> purposes it is important to host your site in the geographical area of
>>>>> where you/your customers are located....
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers, Mark
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 11/12/11 6:05 PM, Derik Kotze wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm looking for a good (not to expensive ;-) ) hosting company who
>>>>>> don't have a
>>>>>> problem hosting Typo3. I've had heaps of problems with our current host
>>>>>> trying to get
>>>>>> everything to work and decided it will be probably better to move to
>>>>>> another host. I
>>>>>> obviously do not want to make the same mistakes again and was wondering
>>>>>> if any of you
>>>>>> could maybe help me with any suggestions please.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>> 
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