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No need to be embarrassed.

I've been with them for about the same amount of time. A few domains registered, personal email, a few website projects, a couple cron jobs, and an OwnCloud install ...

Generally they deliver. Not spectacular, but much better than any of the other shared hosts.

The reason why I haven't moved off them completely is because for smaller web projects it's easier to have everything in one place, ready to go and managed, without dealing with deploying and maintaining the stack (which can be overkill for hobby stuff).

All of the other shared hosts went to shit about 5 years ago. Dreamhost may eventually get there as well, but for the time being they are still decent, and get the job done.

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> All of the other shared hosts went to shit about 5 years ago.

I'm not sure what your requirements are, but I've been very happy with nearlyfreespeech for a few years now. I just host a simple static site so YMMV.

My requirements are all of the shared hosts that got acquired by Endurance International Group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group

Some say EIG killed shared hosting.

I switched to A Small Orange years ago when EIG started swallowing up the world. ASO is fantastic and now I use them with all my clients and startups too.

Side note: an EIG company has given me free hosting for years because their botched takeover of my previous favorite caused them to stop billing me.

I've also had really poor experiences with Dreamhost.

I had some clients on a Small Orange. They used to be great.

EIG took over a Small Orange in 2010, but thankfully left them autonomous for while. Unfortunately in 2014 Douglas Hannah (ASO founder) left and since then things have gone downhill.

This happened around the same time EIG took over HostGator. HostGator founder Brent Oxley and (no coincidence) friend Douglas Hannah have gone on to start a new venture with their big time profits from selling out to EIG.

2014 and 2015 were riddled with major outages at both A Small Orange and HostGator.

I'm sure you remember the 4-day Small Orange VPS outage of Christmas 2015 ?! That was fun.

I got my last client off them after that and never looked back. Just now I looked at their status page and looks like they never really recovered: https://status.asmallorange.com/

Oh no how did I miss that acquisition?? Thanks for the heads up. Are there any decent independent domestic US providers left??

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