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#1 Pixel_Donkey

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Posted 01 September 2011 - 09:08 AM

Hello,

I need to move one of my business sites to the US so I'm on the hunt for a decent hosting provider which meet the following criteria, does anyone have any recommendations?

Provider must be a leadering USA host (no resellers please)
IP must be located in the USA
Nightly backups
Completely managed by the hosting company
Apache 2
PHP 5
MySQL 4/5 - with innoDB table format
Have the mod_rewrite module enabled
Have Register_Globals set to OFF or have the ability for us to set it to OFF using either php.ini or .htaccess

I've tried Network Solutions but they only offer innoDB on VPS packages that are not 100% managed

Any recommendations would help me greatly, thanks!

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Posted 01 September 2011 - 10:59 AM

Your target audience is in the US then huh? Whats the website do?

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Posted 10 October 2011 - 09:16 AM

Hi Wesh,

Sorry for the late reply, I wasn't watching the topic (am now).

We have two main offices, one in the UK and one in the USA. We're moving the USA website off our dedicated server to a provider in the US.

I tried GoDaddy but their shared servers are completely overloaded causing major FTP connection issues. I can't go the VPS route because I need a supported service.

Back to square one with only 1 week to find another host, gah!

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Posted 10 October 2011 - 09:34 AM

Media Temple GS.

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Posted 10 October 2011 - 09:50 AM

Pixel_Donkey, on 10 October 2011 - 09:16 AM, said:

I tried GoDaddy but their shared servers are completely overloaded causing major FTP connection issues. I can't go the VPS route because I need a supported service.

Thats a common thing with companies that oversell and Godaddy is famous for their overselling. How about going for a managed vps dedicated server? That way you wont need to bother for your server related support..