It seems to be a bit work to get this started. I have taken some small steps forward:
- I have contacted some web hosts to see if they want to take part in the survey.
- It is a bit cumbersome to produce the graphs. I got a tip that JGraph for PHP might be good. Unfortunately it seems hard to install on Windows. I am currently trying to setup Gruff for Ruby instead. Any tips?
- I took a look at the forums at WebHosting TALK. They seem to be a good place to discuss about web host performance. Any other tips?
- So far it looks to me that perhaps Hosting Reviews at Hostjury.com is a valuable resource.
After looking around a bit more I am even more convinced that a measure of CPU and SQL related performance is necessary to find a good shared web host. Currently disk and bandwidth are cheap, but CPU is not that cheap. So very many web hosts offer you a lot of this and many databases — but you can not use much of that because the fine line says there are CPU restrictions. It is even said that some hosts just lock the customers accounts when they use “too much CPU”.
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