And arvixe has gone the way of hostgator...
 

About 3 years ago I moved my site off of hostgator because of EIG and there crappy service.

Well in December EIG bought hostgator. In the past two months they have run arvixe into the ground. The downtime has been insane. They must have oversold the servers or some thing. Every thing is slow and the databases crash all the time. If you check out there forums it is a total shit storm over there right now. People have had weeks of down time. One guy had like 27 sites go down for 10 days wrecking his business.

I am fed up.

Any suggestions on a new host (some thing in the $10-$15 a month range)? My site is primarily a wordpress theme and links to my clipstore.

I have faced those problem from arvixe.arvixe is sucks for me.Now I am using Portal Home - HostBlast.Net site for host my adult sites.

Do not use hostgator. You can get some nice vps for that price.

Ohh I wont...had them 3 years ago...never again.

This is odd. I've been with Arvixe for years, and I've never had problems like these. Even recently. I mean, sometimes I have site down times, but rarely for more than 5 minutes.

have you installed any cache plugin in WP, if you not, try installing WP Super Cache and select all the "recommended" options in advance setting

That explains why Arvixe is crap all of a sudden. I've had so much downtime lately and I tried moving a forum over there from my old hosting and it just doesn't have enough space to run it at all. I've got a pro account that's supposed to be unlimited (yeah I know, no such thing with shared hosting) and it's just awful. Also, they stopped offering free private WHOIS, which doubles the registration price of their domains for me.

Anyways, I'll be switching to DreamHost. I never had any issues with them and they're adult friendly and have private registration. And an awesome affiliate program which is always nice ;)

You should consider raising your budget and upgrading to a VPS or dedicated server, that way you are in your own environment which means better reliability and uptime.

You get what you pay for.

You can check my sig for decent VPS/VDS plans.

Where does your traffic mainly come from?

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Right advice... It's not a reliable service to host your money sites... I use them to host less important sites of our private blog network.

I also notice my websites have often downtime periods lately, and it seems to be more and more often, that sucks, because i'm a long time arvixe customer and it never used to be like this before.

shame, i will try to move to another host.

Well arvixe deleted there live chat and removed there support line.

Word is on the webhosting forums they fired all the support staff and then got hacked.

Looks like the ship has sunk...saw this post from an employee

I had Hostgator when I first started doing sites a few years ago. It ideal for the price and managed etc. I then had so many errors and downtime as well. I had to install all those Wordpress cache plugins and it was a nightmare with them. Then I moved to Digital Ocean and it was better. But I needed better. OVH dedicated server $109.00 and Cpanel license $34.99. VPS $20.00 or so with $13.99 CPanel license. It's simple to install CENTOS and CPanel. All the video plugins and things to run a good server or VPS is all over the net. It is just quality shit at OVH.

If you're still looking then Hawk Host probably fits your needs.

If you are looking for VPS, Low End Box - Cheap VPS Hosting Providers Listing & Reviews is one good place to go ;)

Does Hawk Host have cpanel?

Yes, Hawkhost has cpanel.

Yup I know all about the mess with Arvixe. It helps that I was on their support staff for 2.5 years. But nonetheless, it's not the same host it once was and very unclear if EIG will ever fix things. Keep looking for new hosts and avoid the EIG ones because everything is about the same across all brands. It's sad really, but still inexcusable on their part.