It seems some hosting companies I’ve been using for a long time are going through some changes, and I’m not sure if that will be for the better or not.
A2Hosting has been great for some of my sites. I liked the addon options they offered before to tailor the hosting to my specific needs. But now, that domain forwards to “hosting.com”, and those nice addons are nowhere to be found.
My beloved SkyToaster, which hosts the bulk of my sites, went through some changes and a rocky period some years ago, but they righted the ship and have been great since then. Now, though, somethings is afoot. They’ve moved sites to new servers that have “mywebserver.co” (no “m” on the end) as the domain instead of “toastserver.com”, and DNS servers are now “usethisnameserver.com”. There were a number of issues after the sites were moved, and neither I nor any of my clients received a notice that this was happening. These new server names sound awfully generic, so I wonder about them, and from what little I have gathered so far, “usethisnameserver.com” seems to be associated with Hostgo.
So, what hosting are people using (other than MODX cloud, of course) with their MODX sites? What hosting services are currently great for both regular shared hosting and VPS, with great tech support?
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UPDATE
Just found out the Skytoaster and Hostgo are indeed associated. They are both owned by a parent company, SoZo Technologies, which looks like some sort of hosting company conglomerate. It owns a whole bunch of hosting companies. Some of these conglomerates have purchased companies and run them into the ground. Not sure if this is one of them. Word is that Skytoaster and Hostgo will at some point “merge their billing systems”. Not sure if that means they will turn into one host instead of two. The pricing is pretty different between the two companies, although offerings are similar.