Best Hosting in 2011

I was reading the best webhosting for 2011. I was thinking of letting go of some of my shared hosting accounts and just consolidate everything in either a VPS or one of those new cloud hosting technologies.

One of the early cloud hosting I’ve encountered is from Media Temple. Nowadays there’s a lot of choices. I had experience in using rackspace cloud and it’s ok. Not bad at all, but not cheap either. The only problem I’ve encountered is that in rackspace cloud, I’m getting a lot of akismet false positives. The reason is that the remote IP address being detected is not the IP of the visitor. It’s the IP address of rackspace cloud’s load balancer.

Another important thing to consider is the control panel. I’ve used both plesk and cpanel. My personal choice is cpanel. It’s such a great control panel together with WHM.

Last is support. I have used shared hosting before with very lousy support. It was one of those ultra-cheap hostings run by amateurs. Eventually those aren’t really good choices. Price isn’t the only thing that matters. Peace of mind that websites and servers are up 99.9% and day to day problems will be taken cared of is what ultimately matters.