# Give me reliable website hosting service... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465 "2004-11-18T14:51:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/1 "2004-11-18T14:51:46Z")
My son has been offered a fee to make a website for his girlfriends father’s landscaping business. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of a reasonably cheap but reliable hosting service? The website in question is not going to have any bells or whistles - just HTML. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/2 "2004-11-18T14:57:05Z")
I’ve been using Yahoo! for a while now for simple web pages, FTPing, etc. and I’m very happy with them. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/3 "2004-11-18T15:09:59Z")
I’ve been happy with [earthlink.com](http://earthlink.com). ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/4 "2004-11-18T15:32:52Z")
I like these rankings with reviews: [http://www.webhostinginspector.com/index.php?from=1](http://www.webhostinginspector.com/index.php?from=1) I use #2, [Startlogic.com](http://Startlogic.com) and have been much more than just happy with them. They offer 2gb space and a huge amount of features and great customer support for $7.50 a month. [http://www.startlogic.com/](http://www.startlogic.com/) ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/5 "2004-11-18T18:16:41Z")
[Verve Hosting](http://www.vervehosting.com/) has very good prices, good features (for when they outgrow their plain-jane HTML website, which they will, if it’s anything more than a brochure online) and extraordinary (and I mean **extraordinary** , exemplary, fantastic to the nth degree) customer service. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/6 "2004-11-18T19:09:53Z")
Moved to IMHO. - **xash** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/7 "2004-11-18T19:14:23Z")
Personally, I’ve been very happy with [www.fuitadnet.com](http://www.fuitadnet.com) for $5 per month: [http://www.fuitadnet.com/bronze\_plan.php](http://www.fuitadnet.com/bronze_plan.php) Previous threads on this topic: **Is this a good price for web hosting?** > **[Is this a good price for web hosting?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=260584)** > > Basic Web hosting - 200 meg of file space, 21 GB/month traffic, 28 email IDs, name service for one domain. “Goodies” that I probably don’t need, but are there anyway, include MySQL, CGI, FrontPage extensions, RealMedia server and ParaChat chatroom... **Recommend a web hosting company for me** > **[Recommend a web hosting company for me](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=257514)** > > I’m building a web site for my Dad, and I need only the most basic setup. Email addresses, domain hosting and hopefully JSP or Servlet support. I’m not married to servlets if they are really expensive, but I don’t know much about languages that... ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/8 "2004-11-18T21:15:30Z")
I went with VerveHosting after someone here recommended them. That was 2+ years ago, and I never have had a problem with them. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/9 "2004-11-18T21:26:16Z")
I use [addr.com](http://addr.com) at $9.99/mo and have never had a problem. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/10 "2004-11-18T22:02:44Z")
I use IPowerWeb which was listed as #1 on ShagNasty’s link. You have to pay for a full year at once to get the quoted $7.95/mo price. Everything has been fine for the past 2 years. The only issue I’ve ever seen is my phpBB forums are sometimes slow, and every so often I get errors where it can’t connect to the database. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-reliable-website-hosting-service/275465/11 "2004-11-18T22:08:01Z")
I use [powweb.com](http://powweb.com) $7.77 a month with breaks for one year prepayment, $15 domain names. Whatever you chose don’t forget to give a referral to the Doper who suggested them. Powweb gives me a free month.