Website Hosting Battle Royale – Introductions

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Here is the deal.  I need a new Web Host.  So I did some research and came up with some choices.  Either Mosso’s Cloud Sites or MediaTemple Grid-Service(MT) the pricing for both is NOT comparable at all.  MT is $20 while Mosso is $100 both are on a month to month basis.

MT was kind enough to give me a free 30 day no strings attached trial if I blogged my experience. Being the entrepreneur that I am I decided to see what the competition would offer as well.  I twittered a little bit and got some good responses from some Rackspace folks.  Rackspace owns Mosso.  They had me talk with Mosso and right now Rob La Gesse the Director of Customer Development from Mosso is checking to see if I can get access to there Cloud Sites for the same kind of deal.  We will see. hooked me up with a test account with Mosso. There is more to this story but I will save that for later.

Already I have set up a network monitoring on MT and on my current host asmallorange(ASO). If you need a shared host I would recommend them.  If you use the coupon code ‘startupstudent’ you can get 15% off your order just so you know ;-D. I love ASO and they have treated me well but I have outgrown their services and I need my sites to be more flexible then what they can offer.

I have set up a site monitoring service to check the asmallorange site AND my MT site AND hopefully the Mosso site.  I used Siteuptime which is a great service! I have used them before and liked it … I liked you alot. I have included the links below so that you can check out the public stats on how the services are doing. They will be monitored every 15 minutes.  They monitor just the HTTP for right now.  I don’t have the $$ to monitor everything …

1. MediaTemple
2. asmallorange
3. Mosso (hopefully soon!)

I am going to put the StartupStudent site on each.  Full database and posts.  I have disabled commenting so that nothing can get too messed up.  I am going to put a post on how this is a test rig just to make sure people understand.

SO! The battle for best host continues.  We will see who wins.

Round 1 – Setting it all up.  How easy was it? (coming soon)