Muse Webhost

[funinthesun]

Greetings and thank you for your time :)

So I have generated a number of product ideas ranging from drop-ship products to information products. Ideally, I would like to sell a combination of these products. For example, sell an ebook on a given topic and cross sell drop-shipped products relative to the same topic. Tim discussed this as well.

Now, I need to start testing these ideas. I have registered a company domain name, but I want to register something else for muse testing. These are the next steps:

1) Find a reliable webhost for muse sites that will be able to sustain a larger site if/when the muse is successful. Thus, the host should provide good services, space/speed, and also security (SSL certs for a reasonable cost)

-which hosts would you recommend based on your experiences?

-Tim talks about using Yahoo Business hosting, has anyone else had direct experience with it? How well do the merchant services work (like webhosts, there are an amazing number of merchant account providers out there)?

[jakediddy]

I'm using HostGator - their middle plan (unlimited subdomains, add-on domains, unlimited space/bandwidth, etc...) was about $120 for one year I believe. Go to any non-exsisting page on their site to get a coupon code for the first month at 1 cent - Brought the price down about $10 almost.

With that said, I haven't made my first muse public yet, so I don't know how fast they serve pages under significant loads, but I haven't seen any downtime yet and I'm on their servers almost every evening.

Doing things a little backwards with developing it first, but it's given me an opportunity to learn PHP/MySQL. If things go well, I'll move onto my next muse with a different subdomain (free) on my existing hosting plan with them. I planned for the future.

[funinthesun]

Thanks for that info. How did you decide to use them over some of the others like hostmonster or bluehost? I can understand just buying an economic plan for muse testing, but I also want to be ready to get a very reliable host if/when one of the muse ideas takes off.

[jakediddy]

Well, they boast 99.9% uptime, but that's what everyone claims... Honestly I simply went for a host which looked legit, used CPanel, and allowed unlimited bandwidth, databases, disk space, subdomains, email, etc.

There could be better services out there, but unless you create the next YouTube, the margin of stability is probably not going to be noticeable.