Experience with ANHosting.com - Two Thumbs Up!
Web Hosting, Technology May 22nd, 2007After switching to ANHosting.com’s huge disk space shared hosting plan since less than a month ago, I have received quite traffic from google and MSN with search keywords like “ANHosting sucks“, “ANHosting is down again 2007“, “ANHosting or DreamHost“, “ANHosting vs GoDaddy“, “Dont’s host on ANHosting” and “ANHosting hell“. This is making me worry about how many people out there are not satisfied with ANHosting.com. Are there any problems with ANHosting? I have post two blog entries few days ago about ANHosting.
Terence Chang is now hosted on ANhosting.com
ANHosting vs BlueHost
I have done a lot of research like others for almost two months before I switch to ANHosting. Compare with my ex-hosting company HostingZoom.com, I am much happier with ANHosting. Here are the main reasons. For those who read this blog, I hope this help you making decision on next hosting providers.
Before I signup with ANHosting.com, I have made over 10 calls to their support line. I have never waited for more than 10 minutes to get someone to answer my questions even over the weekend. I also post many questions through the online tech support chat. The person I have dealt with are not very technical, but they did ask me to hold and get answer back from other guys. And I can fully understand their English. Not like other hosting companies, which out source their tech support to Southern Asia countries. They hung your up if you keep asking “What do you mean?”. They don’t even have phone number for support.
I give their Customer Services two thumbs up!
After I switch to ANHosting, I realized that I was on their PHP5 server. I have created a custom application that are running on PHP4 due to the different PHP session handling between PHP4 and PHP5. I test it out many times and have the tech support guy took a look at it. They switch my sites to a server running PHP4. The support guy was staying online with me for an hours, while helping me out.
The first two weeks, the site is running awesome. I have about 8 add-on domains running on the same accounts. The speed is awesome, I have only had two instances of slowness so far. It has never down so far.
The server load is always under 4 points on the cpanel’s system status report. I have no problem to access the server through FTP or web. To make the point, I have a personal photo gallery, which I show my relatives all over the world where I am up to. I have over 3000 800×600 pictures. They are loaded very fast and load seamlessly from Taiwan, China and England. What more can I say?
I am happy with ANhosting so far. I will keep my sites on ANHosting.com for now.
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June 6th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
With ANHosting, my site was constantly down. I believe it started within the first 24-48 hours. This is bad enough, but the tech support people even laughed at me when I was desperately IM’ing for help.(Really, they typed something like “LOL. Calm down. I’m the only one here, this will take time.”) (And oh yes, they also would type in all capitals and take 5-10 minutes to respond to every message.) Arggh!
Lucky for you things are going good!! Maybe they’re upgraded a few things.
June 6th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Ben:
Thing is not going perfectly well here with ANHosting. I have post all of the issues with ANHosting on my other never down blog at http://terencechang.blogspot.com
I signed up just a month ago. Whenever the server is up, it’s up and running great. It’s annoying that it went down quite often these days. I am happy with them so far, it’s olny because I have had very bad and much worst experience with other hosting company. I don’t run serious business on shared hosting server anyway.
If you can afford about US$120+/month, I would recommend MediaTemple.net. Don’t go with their shared GS hosting. Or you can go straight to Rackspace.com for high-end dedicated server.
I can only wish us good luck, when they move to the new datacenter later this year.
June 6th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I just saw today how many other domains I share with my IP. I was horrorified! It was over a hundred. But…my site has been down only like 2 minutes in naerly 3 months now with my new host, so, I can’t really complain.
June 6th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Ben:
Are you saying you are no longer with ANHosting or still with them? I would love to see if you can post the instruction here. So we all know how you check the IP and find out who else is sharing it?
Before I host with ANHosting.com, I called them and they told me they will host up to 300 sites on one shared hosting. Plus each site can have 20 add-on domain. So it’s possible that one server can host over 6000 web sites.
That is a lot of sites on one server, if every sing site is using MySQL. I would imagine that the server will be down pretty quick. They somehow randomly pick the server for new clients. So I was on their hosting server with PHP5. Then, I have them switch me to PHP4 server.
I am keeping really close eyes on ANHosting.com. I am sorry to hear that you were laughed at by those tech supports. I was hung up by tech support from HostingZoom.com and they even claim that I hung up on them.
Thanks!
June 6th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I left ANHosting after a few weeks of constant downtime. I am on HostGator now. (And they are AWESOME!)
You can check out who else shares your IP by going here:
http://www.myipneighbors.com/
Looks like your in company with about 18 other domains.
Enjoy!
June 6th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Great thanks! That’s good to know.
August 1st, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Thanks for your article.
Anyone experience hostmonser and anhosting? which is better?
August 1st, 2007 at 6:15 pm
@aglent:
I have not use hostmonster myself. However, I was not able to get hold with the tech support myself for few times. So I give it up! They don’t have online chat, so it’s hard to get hold with someone when there is a problem.
I think ANHosting is still a good choice even they recently have some glitches. They are in the progress to move to a new data center. I believe that all those issues will be gone!
Good luck on finding your hosting. Keep me post if you decide to host at ANHosting.com