Web Hosting and why we use Burton Hosting

by Patrick Altoft on July 3, 2007

Update: August 2008, We have moved hosts and this blog is now with Media Temple. The support we received from Burton Hosting during a period of downtime was non-existent so, despite Burton Hosting being very fast, we decided to move hosts.

Last week we transferred the BlogStorm hosting to Burton Hosting after they won the Web 2.0 Hosting Test. Since we transferred the hosting to Burton the uptime has gone from about 90% per day to 99% or 100% every day.

BlogStorm runs cron jobs every minute of every day to analyse all the data and our widgets are displayed on some high traffic sites so we can’t afford to have any downtime or even to run a bit slowly.

Burton Hosting plans

Until last week I’d never had a site with Burton Hosting but they are already a company I am happy to recommend. Matthew in the support department answers emails promptly and they have 24 hour telephone support.

As you can see from this speed test the site loads quickly (within a second most of the time) and the main thing slowing it down is Google Analytics.

Hosting plans start at $6 per month for 10GB space and 100GB bandwidth.

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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Stewart 13/07/2007 at 7:39 pm: How was your transfer?

Was it easy and painless?

I am looking for a new host but I am bit afraid of the hassle involved.
2 Patrick Altoft 13/07/2007 at 8:25 pm: The transfer was fine, I made sure the new site was running before switching the DNS records and then went away for a few days.
3 swag 19/06/2008 at 3:57 am: They’re going down and out of business. Back everything up. I dare you to reach anyone in the company now. My site there has been down for 5 days since my “renewal” and there’s nobody to reach.
4 nick 23/09/2008 at 3:06 am: We have been a long customer of Burton Hosting, since 2003. They used to have a very good support, BUT now our website has been down for 5 days and we don’t know how to contact them. We have just renew our account for another 2 years (so stupid *sigh*), now Burton Hosting completely unreachable.