Web Hosting and why we use Burton Hosting
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.
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.
Burton Hosting – Oficially the best host for surviving Digg
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Firstly, you do know that the Web 2.0 Hosting Test was a scam set up by Burton themselves, right? Secondly, they are gone, leaving without notice and owing many of us a heap of money. Do you have any information that could assist me in pursuing legal action against them? Thank you!
Hi steve, I used to be hosted with Burton and they impressed me with the speed of their hosting. Unfortunately they had non-existent customer service so I got out while I could. They are a UK limited company as far as I know so you should be able to sort something out.
Thank you, Patrick! But I’m a US client … it’s looking like more trouble than it’s worth to get my hundred bucks back. Alas …