For starters, I’m going to cheat a little and just copy/paste my review of Ultrahosting here. Go toward the bottom for more choices.
Overview:Tired of shared hosting? Don’t like grid hosting? Is it time to go with virtual or dedicated managed hosting? You sound like you may want to take a look at UltraHosting because that is all they do, and they do it well.
Disclaimer:UltraHosting offers a powerful product, but if you are a first-time website owner and don’t have a great deal of knowledge and experience, you may want to start somewhere else. That’s not to say that UltraHosting would be a poor choice. It may just be overkill.
That said, if you are confident that you have a good product and are dedicated to making it work, then you could do far worse than to begin your hosting with UltraHosting because of their flexibility, power and price-points. Unlike many shared hosting companies, you will never have to worry about outgrowing UltraHosting or going bankrupt due to bandwidth overages.
If this disclaimer is scaring you, go away quickly. If not, welcome to the magical world of UltraHosting.
What you get:Whatever you want so long as it’s not shared hosting. The range of products is staggering, all centered around that higher tier of hosting. There are three flexible options for VPS and dedicated hosting, and two options for colocation hosting. If you can’t find what you need here, then you don’t need VPS or dedicated hosting. Obviously, things such as SSL certificates are no problem, and there are plenty of nice extras, like daily and weekly backups of your site.
It’s also fairly easy to use for a VPS/dedicated host, providing things like Plesk and cPanel.
Speed and reliability: Yep. But to add to that carefully phrased response, they do guarantee 100 percent up-time. So what happens when they go down? Beats me. I can’t imagine that they NEVER go down, but I haven’t seen it yet. Even on VPS and dedicated, remember that speed can be impacted by the complexity and size of your site, as well as the amount of traffic you are getting. Naturally, it is much more reliable in that regard than are shared hosting accounts.
Pricing: Pricing for the various packages is as good as it gets, with VPS hosting starting at $19 per month and true dedicated at just $55 per month. There is no set-up fee, which is great for this class of hosting, and they will even give free assistance for moving your site. That’s special. To wrap it all up nice and cozy, they offer a 110 percent, no-nonsense price guarantee, promising to always beat their competitors.
Flexibility:This is where UltraHosting really shines. You can start with a powerful, VPS solution at $19 per month and continually scale upward as your business grows–and without the huge price shocks that come with some companies. You can grow slowly and comfortably at UltraHosting, and because all of their accounts are managed, you will get help along the way.
Customer Service: Well, yet again, I am flying blind here because I’ve never used their customer service, but they do have live chat (love it) and a toll free number (don’t laugh, most places don’t any more). But they are only available during regular business hours.
They seem good, but I’m not going to vouch for them in this area because I simply haven’t tried using their customer service. If I get around to it or get some feedback from customers, I will do an update.
On the other hand, they are much more of a “managed” hosting site, so if I had to guess, I’d say they are solid and perhaps more than you would expect from a shared host.
Bottom Line: If you need VPS or dedicated hosting, I really don’t see any reason to look anywhere else.
The only other people I would recommend, at this point in time, for VPS or dedicated hosting would be GoDaddy.com. Just being honest, I’ve used everything at GoDaddy BUT their dedicated hosting, but based on those experiences I think it is a safe recommendation. They are a little more expensive than Ultrahosting, but may also be just a tiny bit easier to use, based on my assumption that they handle their dedicated services in the same way that they handle their shared and grid services.
