I’ve been using A Small Orange (ASO for short) for several years, they are my host of choice for international projects. My sites in Sweden are located in Sweden physically as well, but everything else is on ASO.

As regular readers of this blog know, my relationship with ASO isn’t simple. The last year or so the uptime have been poor, at least to my demands, and that culminated in me deciding to move to another host. However, ASO suggested to move my account to a different server, and that actually did the trick. I haven’t seen very much downtime since the move, which is great.

In other words, if your ASO account is on the Ana Lucia server, then ask them to move it. It’s not a stable server, if you ask me.

However, the move didn’t go as smoothly as it should. There were DNS issues, and it turned out that not all e-mail aliases were moved, and so on. No data was lost other than the bouncing e-mails, but that’s bad enough. I had to setup some subdomains again as well. Still, the ASO support was prompt and helpful as always, which is the main reason I wanted to give them another shot and not switch hosts. I have absolutely no complaints about the ASO support, they are great. Sure, they are human and sometimes they make mistakes, like just now when they accidentally messed up some stuff for the tdhedengren.com domain.

I have not yet decided if I can start recommending A Small Orange as a host again. Everything seems to be working well enough since after the move from the Ana Lucia server, but it is still a bit early to start waving the orange flag. However, I can tell you this: If prompt and good support is what you value the most, then give ASO a go. That is their strong point, the selling point if you will.

Personally, I’m taking a careful yet positive stance here. I won’t be so shy not to drop you an affiliate link, should you want to give ASO a go.

What host are you on, and what are your experiences? Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments, if you will.