Thai Web Hosting Company ?

[H2oDunc]

Gretings all, I'm looking for a hosting company for a website I am building. Anybody have any recommendations as to which company is better / good / reliable etc and an idea of pricing. Somebody said TV was starting a hosting side of things ?

Cheers Guys and gals in advance Dunc

[steppenwolf108]

www.jaideehosting.com

Cheap, reliable, got English speaking staff for assistance!

[t.s]

out of curiosity, why do you want it hosted in thailand? you can host it anywhere in the world you want. all you need is a credit card. I use bluehost and i cant recall ever having dowwntime.

[swain]

Agreed.. Bluehost or Hostgator are much better choices.. with hostgator you can pay with paypal as well as credit card.. Though godaddy is ok as well.. I would rank it.. hostgator, then blue host and last godaddy.. and godaddy last because of tech support being a pain. Hostgator ease of use and extremely good tech support. Serves out fast to Thailand. No reason to host here.

[d0ndela]

If you want to use a Thai company I can recommend visualweb.co.th, I use them for our websites. English speaking.

They don't host themselves though, they use an American Company. But offer excellent service.

[bapak]

If you want to use a Thai company I can recommend visualweb.co.th, I use them for our websites. English speaking.

They don't host themselves though, they use an American Company. But offer excellent service.

thaiwebhost.net .. English speaking with servers in USA... Been around in Thailand for 9 years..

[Deke]

Sukson Hosting is another local outfit that I've had good results with.

[Crushdepth]

The only sane reason to place a site with a Thai web host is if you need to serve *really* bandwidth-heavy content to a Thai audience. If you aren't doing that, you'd be much better off hosting your site in the US or Singapore. Local hosting services are, generally speaking, utterly pathetic. If you care about reliability, security and customer service go offshore.

On the other hand, if you think $1 per month hosting fees are a good deal and don't mind your site being down for weeks at a time and can cope with help desk responses like a) no reply, its your site overloading our pathetically overloaded server or c) ah?!? then yeah, host your site in Thailand.

[Archimedes]

Porar

[Deke]

On the other hand, if you think $1 per month hosting fees are a good deal and don't mind your site being down for weeks at a time and can cope with help desk responses like a) no reply, its your site overloading our pathetically overloaded server or c) ah?!? then yeah, host your site in Thailand.

I guess we know where you stand on the issue.

[latelyo]

I have used this Singapore company Vodien. Earlier I used some American and European web hosting companies but this is the best. Reasonable price, super services, 24/7 Phone Support. You can pay by credit card or Paypal

[H2oDunc]

Cheers guys and gals for the tips. I was not after a specific Thai hosting as would imagine they are rather unreliable. A little down time would be no major problem for the site or me. The Singapore one sounds fine and will check them out Monday. Cheers again

[bapak]

The only sane reason to place a site with a Thai web host is if you need to serve *really* bandwidth-heavy content to a Thai audience. If you aren't doing that, you'd be much better off hosting your site in the US or Singapore. Local hosting services are, generally speaking, utterly pathetic. If you care about reliability, security and customer service go offshore.

Not nit picking but probably a better choice of words .. "Thai web host" could have been made considering that the name of a firm - Thaiwebhost.net - was mentioned just prior.

[Crushdepth]

"...a Thai web host.." is correct and non-specific :-)

If it's an important site (eg. business) then I suggest not using shared web hosting, but rent your own virtual private server. It's a bit of a learning curve but well worth it - you get dedicated resources and can upgrade your plan any time you need to. No overloads, no shared-hosting security nightmares and starts to become economically worthwhile for your provider to offer quality technical support. Downside: Costs more but well worth it when you consider the amount of time and pain involved in getting a shared webhosting incident fixed.

Futurehosting.biz is a great VPS provider, technical support usually responds inside 15 minutes.

[H2oDunc]

As said it will not matter tha much if it is down for a short time as it is more for information than business. Cheap and cheerful is more of a matter of priority. The site is not that big either so I do not need vast amounts of bandwidth. Cheers again

[monty]

I've been playing with 3ix for a long time now, they certainly are not the most reliable, recently had a 30 hour downtime (they had an attack from Chinese hackers which they had a hard time getting right). And after they got up again my mysql database was messed up. Had a recent back up so not much harm done...

Biggest upside for, especially for non commercial/non critical sites is the price. You can't argue with 1$/month for hosting with full scripting support mysql database, C-panel (great for beginners as it includes fantastico, an automatic script installer, you can learn the ropes with forums, content management systems etc...)

Almost instant set-up, accepts paypal as well...

Again, not the most reliable, and the support, although very quick to reply, often does not have a clue of what is going on.

Use them to learn, and then migrate to a quality host, or even a virtual server. Of course at a much higher price, but hey, you get what you pay for!

[H2oDunc]

Monty cheers It has everything I'm looking for. I'm only learning and as said short downtimes are no major problem or grief. $5 a month should do all I need as well so not expensive at all. Cheers again my friend Dunc

[Crushdepth]

As said it will not matter tha much if it is down for a short time as it is more for information than business. Cheap and cheerful is more of a matter of priority.

Do not assume that downtime will be low on a cheap host. But if price is important to you, consider renting disk space on *two* cheap hosts, keeping one as a hot spare. If your main host goes down and they don't feel like fixing it you can just point your DNS at the backup host and be back online in a few hours. $12 a year is pretty cheap insurance.