After 4 years hosting my game-site www.graphioware.com at Godaddy I decided to make some changes.
I choosed (time ago) Godaddy because I need:
– faster download for my demo-game files (guaranteed)
– bandwidth (guaranteed)
– faster website navigation
– some statistic tools
Things have ever worked as promised, the costs (at the time) wasnt’ high in absolute terms, but as time flies, things changes.
So before renewing the domain I looked around for other opportunities and – of course – what I really need!
I discovered my dreams of glory are very far from what I hoped at the time, so the bandwidth is ‘wasted’. The amount of web space (4GB) is 200 times what I really need to host my website and my files (less than 20Mb…) – so another thing I was paying for nothing.
Downloading speed? Now every hoster can offer the same service for my purposes (download a demo file over 200Kbs).
Moreover PHP on Godaddy was slow compared to other sites I own… and finally the cost element: the USD / EUR ratio is worsed over the last years.
So I decided to go with NetSons, an italian hoster that seems very good (just tested the download speed and is damned fast! and the website pages are at least 10x times faster).
At the moment the site is the ‘same’ – I just migrated the content from one hoster to the other. But I’m planning to change it a little…
Stay tuned
