# Best web hosting? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 29, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762 "2004-02-29T17:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/1 "2004-02-29T17:42:10Z")
☹ I have been wasting a lot of time trying to deal with my ISP, SBC Yahoo (formerly Pacific Bell Internet), about how my home pages disappeared. I had them over 5 years. The tech person said something about a migration of accounts and that I was supposed to have been notified by email, but I did not receive any such notification. Further, I notice that other people still have their pages up, and it is hard to believe that everyone complied with some email notice. The tech person said I could build a site through Geocities, but I notice the free one has ads. If I am going to pay for web hosting, I would like to find out opinions about the best ones. This would not be for business. Any recommendations? Oh, I plan to change ISP providers, but that is another issue. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![SwingWing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SwingWing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwingWing)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/2 "2004-03-01T03:47:30Z")
You can get a pretty good web site at [Bravenet.com](http://Bravenet.com) for free. If you need more Mb storage and bandwidth, the Bravenet prices are good. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/3 "2004-03-01T07:53:42Z")
> [@SwingWing](#): > > You can get a pretty good web site at [Bravenet.com](http://Bravenet.com) for free. If you need more Mb storage and bandwidth, the Bravenet prices are good. Thanks for the tip. This looks good. Will check it out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/4 "2004-03-01T11:58:54Z")
For my wife#s art site, we started out with Geocities, and upgraded to Geocities Plus about a year ago to get rid of the ads, get our own domain and more space. The advantage of Geocities is that it allows someone without any HTML knowledge to build a good-looking site (well, I think it is). [www.lu-art.com](http://www.lu-art.com) ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/5 "2004-03-01T15:51:26Z")
I use [www.lunarpages.com](http://www.lunarpages.com) . It’s cheap, loaded with features and space and bandwidth, and they have some of the best customer service in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Stover9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stover9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stover9)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/6 "2004-03-01T19:45:27Z")
I’ve always been happy with the great prices, service, tutorials, and advice at [www.hostica.com](http://www.hostica.com) I highly recommend them. ---
**Author:** ![sarclmbr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@sarclmbr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sarclmbr)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/7 "2004-03-01T20:16:51Z")
I’ve been using Fatcow Hosting ([http://www.fatcow.com](http://www.fatcow.com)) for about a year now and can’t say enough good things about it. The plan I chose is $99 a year and includes a ton more features than I’ll ever use (shopping cart, cgi etc. . ) but I do use thier webmail interface. They have been very reliable and have a really simple “control panel” to manage your site and e-mail, much more so than most other hosing companies that I have used in the past. Oh. . . I’m not employed by them or anything, just a happy customer. Hope this helps. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/8 "2004-03-02T08:27:15Z")
I feel better with your input. Thank you all for the suggestions. Will check them all. And Dragon Phoenix, your wife’s site is very cool. And she is very pretty! ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/9 "2004-03-02T10:52:57Z")
Thanks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/10 "2004-03-02T13:59:16Z")
I use [FutureQuest](http://www.futurequest.net/). I don’t make use of nearly all the features they provide, but I’ve had no complaints at all. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/11 "2004-03-02T21:20:38Z")
You may be able to host it yourself. [OS X has a built-in Apache server](http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/websharing/), just save the site files in a specific folder, and it’s published. Couldn’t be easier. And downright luxurious sometimes when you want to post a big file. Done in two seconds. Only constraints are your HD space and bandwidth. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/12 "2004-03-11T00:55:11Z")
[www.doteasy.com](http://www.doteasy.com) - $25 domain registration fee, then the hosting is free. You just pay to renew the domain every year. No ads, FTP access, blah blah blah. I use it for hosting files that may get a lot of traffic (like images for Fark) that I don’t want bogging down my own server 🙂 Been happy with it so far! ---
**Author:** ![florencetaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/florencetaylor/32/7318_2.png) [@florencetaylor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florencetaylor)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2015, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-web-hosting/231762/13 "2015-03-17T06:48:30Z")
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