AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I need to make a decision on a hosting company for an AbleCommerce 7 site.
I have been searching the web for 2 days and they all make their packages sound great. But I thought the best way to make a decision would be to ask the members on the forums who they use, that is if you are happy with them.

One thing I do want for sure is a Control Panel. I have one site running on discountasp.net and I love their control panel. But, I don't know if their package is meant to run Medium level traffic businesses?

I have also seen VPS for around $59 a month but if those require any management I don't think they are for me.
I would really appreciate any feedback.

Thank you.

I really have liked hostmysite.com. All their techs are super knowledgable, and extremely helpful in diagnosing any sort of problem (even for certain coding problems). We've had a normal shared server with them, a VPS, and now a dedicated server. All have been very good experiences for us.

Scott

I have used LiquidWeb for year with both windows and linux servers. They are a large company with small and large servers depending on your needs.

Great, thank you! Both of those are ones I had looked at this weekend along with crystaltech and webhost4life. It is so difficult because they all look good and have decent deals. How are you supposed to tell if you are going to be thrown on a server with so many other sites that your site runs slow? What determines that?

For example, I have one site with discountasp.net and love their control panel. But then I started reading reviews from people saying their sites are running slow even though they were voted best asp.net host in 2008.
Webhost4life has 300GB space and Unlimited bandwidth with 10 SQL databases (3000mb) for $19.95 a month. That has been the most incredible deal I have found so far but I am more worried about reliability and speed.

I guess I am going to have to close my eyes and pick one.

>> I have one site with discountasp.net and love their control panel.

They do I have a good CP but AC7 needs to be on a VPS or dedicated server.
This program will not run good with a lot of traffic on a shared server.

I had discountasp.net but performance was terrible with AC7.
I have another site still with them but it's a smaller program with less code so it runs ok.

I tried Drundo and used their "Silver" package I think for $49.00 a month.
Performance was not that good and around Christmas time last year the
website pretty much froze from traffic from other sites hoggin resources.

I had the site moved to their "Private Dedicated 1G" for $195.00 a month.
The performance has always been super fast since then.

It's more than I was hoping to pay, but if someone come to your website
and it's slow, they will leave. The person I build the site for said he has
had record sales in the past few months so I guess it's worth paying more for the speed.

Wow, okay, I'm sold...

I found two that are really affordable. Which would you go with?

1) Crystal Tech Hyper-V VPS 512MB
$59.95 monthly
$59.95 setup

Our lowest priced solution for Windows 2008 with admin control and the ability to install the software you need.
•GUARANTEED 512 MB RAM
•30 GB Disk Space
•125 GB Bandwidth
•2 IP Addresses
•250 MB Shared SQL
Database

or

2) Myhosting.com Microsoft® Windows® 2008 Web Ed./IIS7
$69.95 monthly
First 2 months free

1 GB memory
50 GB disk space
1 Mbps bandwidth
2 IP addresses
1 Comodo SSL key for 1 year
1 domain name registration for a year
2 admin users with Full Rights
Remote Desktop access to server
1 SQL database 2005/2008 Express or Web Edition
(but Company and Server is located in Canada, if that matters)

Lastly, would I be able to run both of my AC7 sites on the VSP server?

Thanks to everyone for their input.

You can run as many sites as you want on the same server until you reach a point where the performance is not satisfactory.
Mike, what happened at Drundo a few months ago was a result of their upgrade on the Hsphere control panel that customers used. They upgraded to a new version and it dumped very site into the same app pool so if one was a problem, all the sites suffered. They couldn't un-do the upgrade and the hsphere company was purchased by someone else and they were having trouble getting support in the interim. I don't know if it was ever fixed- we moved to the Hyper-Vs and love it.

>> we moved to the Hyper-Vs and love it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Hyper-Vs".
Is that there "Developers" hosting plan or there "Ecommerce" hosting plan?
What plan are you using with them?

It's a Virtual server, kind of like a dedicated server only there will be more than one server instance on each physical server.

If you are looking a shared or virtual private, Look in to how many other account on the same server. They should be able to tell you there maximum accounts per computer.