Comments on: How to evaluate a WebHost https://notagrouch.com/evaluate-webhost/ Digital Marketing Blog and other Shennanigans from Oscar Gonzalez. Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:33:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: oscar https://notagrouch.com/evaluate-webhost/#comment-1041 Fri, 07 May 2010 17:33:12 +0000 http://notagrouch.com/?p=781#comment-1041 As for the mailing lists, I have had too many clients that get graylisted or even blacklisted because of improper use of their mailing services. I think the best approach to doing mailings is to outsource it to something like mailchimp or something similar. It costs a little bit of $ but if you’re mailing a lot, you should be making enough to cover that cost. Also to prevent blacklist or graylist, make sure you’re offering your subscribers a double-opt-in method, I think that’s safer.

]]> By: oscar https://notagrouch.com/evaluate-webhost/#comment-2028 Fri, 07 May 2010 17:33:00 +0000 http://notagrouch.com/?p=781#comment-2028 As for the mailing lists, I have had too many clients that get graylisted or even blacklisted because of improper use of their mailing services. I think the best approach to doing mailings is to outsource it to something like mailchimp or something similar. It costs a little bit of $ but if you’re mailing a lot, you should be making enough to cover that cost. Also to prevent blacklist or graylist, make sure you’re offering your subscribers a double-opt-in method, I think that’s safer.

]]> By: oscar https://notagrouch.com/evaluate-webhost/#comment-1040 Fri, 07 May 2010 17:31:36 +0000 http://notagrouch.com/?p=781#comment-1040 Yeah, throttling is what makes the unlimited offerings be almost meaningless as you say. The best thing to do is to check with people that are already using the service and see if they’ve had any issues with it. Personally for me and the sites I host, I’ve never ran into these issues, but I know they exist. Some hosts offer guaranteed resources which are also a bit dubious in some cases.
I think for the purpose of choosing a host, unlimited basically means that you don’t have a hard set restriction like some hosts do. For example, some hosts will only let you put in 1GB of files and *that is* it.

]]> By: oscar https://notagrouch.com/evaluate-webhost/#comment-2027 Fri, 07 May 2010 17:31:00 +0000 http://notagrouch.com/?p=781#comment-2027 Yeah, throttling is what makes the unlimited offerings be almost meaningless as you say. The best thing to do is to check with people that are already using the service and see if they’ve had any issues with it. Personally for me and the sites I host, I’ve never ran into these issues, but I know they exist. Some hosts offer guaranteed resources which are also a bit dubious in some cases.
I think for the purpose of choosing a host, unlimited basically means that you don’t have a hard set restriction like some hosts do. For example, some hosts will only let you put in 1GB of files and *that is* it.

]]> By: Blog Rookie https://notagrouch.com/evaluate-webhost/#comment-2026 Fri, 07 May 2010 10:52:00 +0000 http://notagrouch.com/?p=781#comment-2026 What about CPU usage and CPU throttling issues? This is the way “unlimited storage/transfer” becomes meaningless. I know from experience that Bluehost will use CPU Usage to punish even fairly new blogs with little traffic.

Also (for those doing mailing lists), what is the limit for emails sent in a day?

]]> By: Blog Rookie https://notagrouch.com/evaluate-webhost/#comment-1038 Fri, 07 May 2010 03:52:43 +0000 http://notagrouch.com/?p=781#comment-1038 What about CPU usage and CPU throttling issues? This is the way “unlimited storage/transfer” becomes meaningless. I know from experience that Bluehost will use CPU Usage to punish even fairly new blogs with little traffic.

Also (for those doing mailing lists), what is the limit for emails sent in a day?

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