Ask HN: Best PHP hosting provider?
I have a small app that is built in PHP. Just wondering who you all would recommend for a hosting provider? We aren't big (yet) but, would like a solution that could scale with the business.
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For small sites, GoDaddy hosting works fine if you are looking to save money.
For "small-ish" sites, I use media temple.
For small to medium sites where I want more control, I use linnode.
For large sites, I use Softlayer.
For shared hosting, I like to work with a smaller company called hawkhost (no affiliation). They have pretty good offerings for shared hosting, and I've experience no downtime thus far.
For a small PHP app, they did be great. They have awesome customer support, very friendly, helpful and have been able to take care of my requirements and questions everytime.
Their main(and the only one in my perspective) drawback is they do not provide dedicated servers.
In case you do decide to go for them, do know that you can get one domain free if you take even their basic hosting package.
Btw, they have unlimited dbs/tables, unlimited domain hostings on a single account (but only one https per account) also.
I use http://prgmr.com for my main site and http://dreamhost.com for the rest of my sites. Prgmr is great if you don't mind configuring your own server, DH is great if you do.
(I have the Prgmr account mostly so I can play with node.js, even though my main site is in PHP.)
If you want to go with DreamHost, contact me and I can get you a discount code.
Further, don't think about scaling yet. Seriously. You should be able to scale to thousands of users without much thought, if you're using a reasonable shared provider.