Web hosting recommendation please

DaveWT

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My wife has a small web site for her textile art business. Years ago because we had all Telus services, we just went with their free web hosting and back then the web site was created with iWeb. When iWeb was dropped we converted to Sandvox. It has worked well enough for her purposes ever since with occasional updates to the content as new projects are completed.

But now Telus has just dropped the service "without warning". (We should have been expecting it after the way they handled email.) I might have expected they would contact us before dropping the website but I guess that is too much effort to make for a lifetime Telus customer.

Trying to visit the website now just puts up a Telus message saying they are discontinuing the service:

"Due to aging hardware, TELUS has made the decision to shutdown Subscriber Web Domain Hosting and FTP Service. All associated websites are no longer available"

So we need to find another host for the web site. What do people recommend?
 

DaveWT

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I don't have any direct recommendations, but I have heard nice things about BlueHost.
Thanks for this Chas,
I have been doing searches on "best web hosting in Canada" and BlueHost is often high up. Another is HostPapa but after a while I wondered if these rating web sites got compensated and may rate the ones that give them the best compensation higher. I notice that BlueHost's servers are in Utah while HostPapa has servers in Toronto. With no experience with any of these services, hopefully a few more of our members will offer their opinion too.
 

chas_m

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My impression of Bluehost comes from friends who have or had sites hosted there. I can definitely make one ANTI-recommendation: whatever you got with, don't use GoDaddy.com!!
 

DaveWT

Well-Known Member
Yes, I agree about GoDaddy. We started out using them for domain registration but soon switched to Hover.com - so much better
 
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