Hosting for Perchers recommended by Perchers
We are often asked which hosting we recommend to use with Perch. However “the best” hosting can depend on a large number of variables – including your location, the site requirements, your or your client’s needs in terms of contacting support and the type of hosting you want. In our recent survey we asked If given the choice, which hosting company would you use?. Here are the results. Hosting for Perchers, recommended by Perchers.
If you are choosing a host my companion post to this one gives some suggestions on choosing a good post, heavily based on the issues we deal with in support.
Notes on the data
316 people gave an answer to this question. So the number of recommendations are the number of people who mentioned that host as their favourite out of that total.
61% of Perchers typically choose shared hosting. So hosts that only offer VPS or dedicated plans will come out lower than they deserve to.
This can’t really be treated as a league table of hosts. Those in the top 23 are hosts in countries where we have a lot of Perchers. Therefore we would expect more votes for those hosts. However as this was a free text answer, each host listed below has been recommended by at least one of their customers. It should be noted that this is the first time we have heard of most of the hosts – especially those with one or two votes. This is a good thing! We tend to only hear about poor quality hosts in support, when Perchers are struggling with a host.
The price guide is the cheapest plan offered by the host – often the cheapest plan isn’t the best to get and as some hosts only offer VPS and not shared hosting these are not directly comparable but I thought it might be interesting.
If you feel a host has been misrepresented in location or price, drop us a line or add a comment. Feel free to add comments recommending your favourite hosts – actual recommendations only please, we won’t publish anything suspected to have come from a hosting company representative!
The top 23
A number of hosts came out on top of the survey. There are some of the bigger names in there as you would expect. However we also see a strong presence for some less well known names, and hosts outside of the UK and US.
| Recommended by | Host | Location | Price guide |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | Media Temple | USA | $20 per month |
| 17 | Digital Ocean | NY, USA | $5 per month |
| 12 | Linode | NJ, USA | $20 per month |
| 11 | Rackspace | $29.20 per month | |
| 10 | Heart Internet | UK | $4.20 per month |
| 10 | Dreamhost | USA | $8.95 per month |
| 9 | TSO Host | UK | $7.48 per year |
| 8 | 123 Reg | UK | $15.26 per year |
| 8 | Webfaction | UK | $8.50 per month |
| 7 | 1&1 | UK (and international) | |
| 7 | Hostgator | USA, Texas | $3.96 per month |
| 7 | A Small Orange | USA, Durham NC | $35 per year |
| 6 | Vidahost | UK | $4.15 per month |
| 6 | Uberspace.de | Germany | $6.94 per month |
| 5 | All-Inkl | Germany | $6.87 per month |
| 5 | site5 | USA, Denver CO | $4.95 per month |
| 5 | Bluehost | USA, Orem UT | $4.95 per month |
| 4 | Clook | UK | £5 per month |
| 4 | Hosteurope | Europe | |
| 4 | ipage.com | USA | $1.89 per month |
| 4 | 34sp | UK | £4.95 per month |
| 4 | Memset | UK | |
| 4 | OVH | USA | $2.99 per month |
Honourable mentions
I wanted to include all hosts mentioned in the survey as included in some of these with only one or two votes are hosts in countries where we have fewer Perchers.
| Recommended by | Host | Location | Price guide |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Heroku | USA, San Francisco, USA | |
| 3 | eukhost | UK | £55 per month |
| 3 | Pair | USA, Pittsburgh PA | $5.95 per month |
| 3 | Transip.nl | Europe | €3 per month |
| 3 | United Hosting | UK | £5 per month |
| 3 | Arcustech | USA, Minneapolis MN | $12.50 per month |
| 3 | Servint | USA, Reston VA | $69 per month |
| 2 | Versio | UK | |
| 2 | Bytemark | UK | £15 per month |
| 2 | Big Wet Fish | Northern Ireland | £9.49 per month |
| 2 | Eleven 2 | USA, Spring TX | $59.40 per year |
| 2 | LCN | UK | $48 |
| 2 | CWCS | UK | |
| 2 | Kualo | UK | $2.75 per month |
| 2 | Fortrabbit | Germany, Berlin | £10 per month |
| 2 | Liquidweb | USA | $14.95 per month |
| 2 | Virtualnames.co.uk | UK | £20 per year |
| 2 | Krystal Hosting | UK | £9.99 per month |
| 2 | Mothership | New Zealand | $10 per month |
| 2 | KnownHost | USA, Dallas TX | $25 per month |
| 2 | Cyon | Switzerland | $8.99 per month |
| 2 | Domain Factory | Germany | |
| 2 | antagonist.nl | Netherlands | |
| 1 | Hosting UK | UK | £2.95 per month |
| 1 | 5quidhost.co.uk | 1 | £5 per month |
| 1 | UK Fast | UK | |
| 1 | Panthur | Australia | $5 per month |
| 1 | Wesh | UK | |
| 1 | justhostme | UK | £2.99 per month |
| 1 | nucleus.be | Belgium | |
| 1 | 4u Hosting | UK | |
| 1 | UK2 | UK | £6.71 per month |
| 1 | 111webhost | UK | £1 per month |
| 1 | doominio | Spain | €49.95 per year |
| 1 | Servwise | USA, Wyoming | $50 per year |
| 1 | Let’s Host | Ireland | €3.95 per month |
| 1 | Sub6 | UK | £5 per month |
| 1 | UKWSD | UK | £2.99 per month |
| 1 | Namehog | UK | £59 per month |
| 1 | ineedhosting.com | UK | £15 per year |
| 1 | Gandi.net | $5 per month | |
| 1 | Siteground | $3.95 per month | |
| 1 | Xilo | UK | £3.99 per month |
| 1 | yourhosting.nl | ||
| 1 | Namesco | UK | £4.16 per month |
| 1 | Server Love | UK | £15 per month |
| 1 | Stormweb Development | Ireland | £4.25 per month |
| 1 | Geek ISP | USA, Carrboro NC | $5 per month |
| 1 | EngineHosting | USA | $45 per month |
| 1 | tentahost.co.uk | UK | £25 per month |
| 1 | IndedMedia | Spain | €7.50 per year |
| 1 | Campusspeicher | Germany | €95 per month |
| 1 | Surpass Hosting | USA, Orlando FL | $120 per year |
| 1 | Binero | Sweden | 158 KR month |
| 1 | mddhosting | USA, Franklin IN | $6.38 per month |
| 1 | 4goodhosting | Canada | $2.95 per month |
| 1 | Webnames Canada | Canada, Vancouver | $4.95 per month |
| 1 | Funio | Canada, Verdun Quebec | $5.83 per month |
| 1 | Double 6 Ltd | UK | |
| 1 | Pagoda Box | ||
| 1 | WebDrive, NZ | New Zealand | $15 per month |
| 1 | Melbourne Hosting | Australia | $25.95 per month |
| 1 | Dinahosting | Spain | €2 per month |
| 1 | Arvixe | USA, San Luis Obispo CA | $4 per month |
| 1 | MacHighway | USA | $2.95 per month |
| 1 | Canvas Host | USA, Portland OR | $4.99 per month |
| 1 | Openhost.co.nz | New Zealand | $7 per month |
| 1 | Pulsant | UK | |
| 1 | home.pl | Poland | 8.00 zl per month |
| 1 | domaingo.de | Germany | |
| 1 | one.com | ||
| 1 | MidPhase | India | $2.95 per month |
| 1 | Net Registry | Australia | $7.95 per month |