In terms of reseller hosting, who would you consider the "creme de la creme" of the field in terms of support and uptime? Price is important too but I'm curious to know who the top reseller hosts are.


(And yes, I have browsed this forum and done a search (search.php) ;).)

Then you should have noticed that httpme has one of the best reputation around here?

Yes, I should have put in my post that I had a tentative list, but by the time I realized I hadn't I couldn't edit it any longer.

Anyway, here's who I have found. Thoughts/Comments/Experiences on any are welcome:
HttpMe
LiquidWeb
UnitedHosting
DIYHosting

and of course please feel free to add to the list as well.

You can't forget BlueWho.com

You should give a try for emaxhosting.com

Sonataweb.net on my list of creme de la creme!

BliksemHosting.com

Fast servers and 3 diffrent DC's

They have the uptime posted on there site done by third part monitoring...

Originally posted by chattersbox
BliksemHosting.com

Fast servers and 3 diffrent DC's

They have the uptime posted on there site done by third part monitoring...
Perhaps you should wait for more than two days with them before recommending them all over the place?

sorry, there status pages on their site prove they have excellent uptime and the post here.. excluding me show they are good as well

clook.net
httpme.com
idologic.com

Just remember that the most expensive host doesn't necessarily mean the best host. Try to look at reviews and make your own choice.

Originally posted by fortress
Just remember that the most expensive host doesn't necessarily mean the best host. Try to look at reviews and make your own choice.

Hehe, coming from a free web host ;)

You can check out VIP-Hosting.com as well. They use the H-Sphere control panel and have good pricing and support. I can't speak about any of the others already mentioned by others because I have not had a reseller account with any them.

Originally posted by chattersbox
BliksemHosting.com

Fast servers and 3 diffrent DC's

They have the uptime posted on there site done by third part monitoring...

I agree! I've been with Blik for awhile and they're top-notch!

Don't forget Dathorn (http://www.dathorn.com). I've had them for 2 years now, and an uptime of 99.8% over those two years.

I would recommend VARHosting.net... great prices and feature list... the admin is also very nice!

InsiderHosting.com
Two words: Uh-mazing! A little pricey, but damn good. Can't even remember the last time I saw downtime, and I've been hosted with them for nearly three years now. The server I'm on has been up for 56 days, and I think that's pretty good. I guess both bluewho.com and httpme.com are owned by Insider Hosting, right? Well, having three of their companies show up in a "cream of the crop" thread can't be bad ;)

There are a lot of good recommendations in this thread, and I would agree many of the names here keep popping up in good reviews.

Just curious, by which standard people are gauging their creme-de-la-creme companies - uptime, helpfulness, response time, budget/performance ratio?

Cheers
Jeff

Originally posted by idologicJeff
There are a lot of good recommendations in this thread, and I would agree many of the names here keep popping up in good reviews.

Just curious, by which standard people are gauging their creme-de-la-creme companies - uptime, helpfulness, response time, budget/performance ratio?

Cheers
Jeff

It's very much subjective so whilst I can attribute to some of those mentioned in this thread being good, it seems some other 'flavours' of the month are included too.

There is no objective way to ratify a host.

OK, first, off-topic. There is no language "American". It should be called modified-english. Now, I have no problems with Americans, none at all, but you guys take our language, take out some "u"s here and there, put a bit of slang in and call it American? Weird. Lol.

Anyway, back on topic. Each host has its day. A recent example is Hostgator. They were really good a while back, had a fantastic reputation and were flying along! Now, all of a sudden there seems to be a mass posting of "Hostgator are bad" threads. This shows how quickly hosts can lose their reputation.

So, hosts (and consequently, resellers), will always change in quality. Sometimes they will be good, other times they will be terrible. It takes a truly amazing host to be good all the way through their trading life!

And we made english!!

As has been stated here many times there is no best host there is only the host that is best for you.

Probably some of the best host are the ones you never read about here on WHT. Why? Because just like the engine in your car you do not think about it to much as long as it runs, as long as it chugs along and gets you where you want to go you do not pay it alot of attention. However let it break down and you pay lots of attention to it.

A good host chugs along your web sites stay up they do not get alot of mention here they are just steady freddy.

Now some of the host that have been mentioned in this thread are the cream of the crop they are good honest hard working host that take care of their customers some of them are flash in the pan flavor of the month host.

Moral of the story do your home work no matter what host you consider. List like these have been posted a hundred times here on WHT and every time it changes because the flavor of the month changes and there is always going to be one week fanatics to tell you how great their host is.

Remember Google is your friend when looking for host type their name in and see what others not on WHT have to say.

Originally posted by Techark
. . . A good host chugs along your web sites stay up they do not get alot of mention here they are just steady freddy.
Yeah, that's so right. Not being mentioned much on WHT is a good thing, IMO. I like the steady as she goes attitude, just chugging along, doing a good job, not making a fuss.

I see the flavor of the month's that come through WHT, and you see most of them showing signs of not managing their growth properly. It's fine to be new, and have a couple of servers, but things get interesting around the 10 server mark, and you'd better have your game together when you pass 20 - 30 servers.

The flavor of the month's seem to always offer very cheap pricing, and have to overload servers in an attempt to make their business somewhat viable, but it soon catches up with them. I think a lot of that comes down to character, and what they've got under the bonnet before they start their business.

Search (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?s=) is always your friend, and as Techark said, Google is a great place to research too.

Originally posted by will7
OK, first, off-topic. There is no language "American". It should be called modified-english. Now, I have no problems with Americans, none at all, but you guys take our language, take out some "u"s here and there, put a bit of slang in and call it American? Weird. Lol.

Just a quick off-topic response to this...
I don't know of anyone, anywhere in my country, who calls our language "American". Dialects vary from place to place, that's all. In some cases, I prefer the original English spelling of words, in others, it doesn't make sense to me. To each his own. The changes to a language occur for various reasons in various countries, but mostly due to the segregation of a people in an area where, left to themselves, their language will change over time. So long as you can I can understand each other when we speak on the phone, or via email, I don't think the minor changes in the language matter much.

But, there is no one (with any intelligence, that is) in my country who would call our language American. I'd agree with you that it would be, in fact, weird to do so. Oh, and there is slang in every language and every variation of English. Yours is as hard to grasp to us as ours is to you.
:)

Indeed, English is tough, but those french...man, they just take the biscuit!

I see the flavor of the month's that come through WHT, and you see most of them showing signs of not managing their growth properly. It's fine to be new, and have a couple of servers, but things get interesting around the 10 server mark, and you'd better have your game together when you pass 20 - 30 servers.

The flavor of the month's seem to always offer very cheap pricing, and have to overload servers in an attempt to make their business somewhat viable, but it soon catches up with them. I think a lot of that comes down to character, and what they've got under the bonnet before they start their business.

This is most certainly a repeatable pattern here at WHT - what really makes me scratch my head is that the same users are following this trend.

They buy from the flavour of the month - the praise the host for how great the uptime, response time, etc is - around 4-6 months later, these same users publicly flog the previous flavour of the month - then jump on the next bad business plan that comes along... Not sure of the proper word to use to describe this phenomenum ....

Just curious, by which standard people are gauging their creme-de-la-creme companies - uptime, helpfulness, response time, budget/performance ratio?

Great question ! - and although this can be subjective - Considering the title of this thread - I would at least hope that a significant track record is established before being labelled the cream of the crop...

I would at least hope that a significant track record is established before being labelled the cream of the crop...I would hope that as well. Maybe we need two threads: "cream of the crop" and "flavour of the month", just so we don't confuse people. :)

Originally posted by CartikaHosting
They buy from the flavour of the month - the praise the host for how great the uptime, response time, etc is - around 4-6 months later, these same users publicly flog the previous flavour of the month - then jump on the next bad business plan that comes along... Not sure of the proper word to use to describe this phenomenum ....


That pretty much sums it up... it could be described as the WHT life cycle :)

Originally posted by chattersbox
sorry, there status pages on their site prove they have excellent uptime and the post here.. excluding me show they are good as well

You're recommending them all over the place!