Web Hosting

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m looking to move a website that I’ve been hosting at my old college, one that’s been there 10 years and has grown fairly large (.5 Gig) and is using up a significant amount of bandwidth.

What I want:
[ul]
[li]2-3 Gig of disk space[/li][li]100 G/month bandwidth[/li][li]Unix host[/li][li]multiple domains[/li][li]own my domain name[/li][li]roughly $10/month[/li][li]stable, long term company[/li][li]site is all HTML, will expand to Perl scripts[/li][/ul]
I know we’ve gone through this on the boards in the past, but the last thread was 6 months ago and things change. I’ve looked at a number of services but am having a hard time evaluating the companies. Suggestions? Who do you use?

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I like powweb and use them for a commercial site; cheap ($7.77/mo) but have stability and have all the stuff you want. I have my personal site hosted at webhostingdirect.net, but they seem to be giving up the ghost–the cred card they have on file for me expired and won’t let me update it or respond to emails about my account. They still keep my site up, but I wouldn’t recommend them. My programmer friends like speakeasy.net and I will shortly have a php auction site up there, but they’re a bit pricier.

I’d recommend against godaddy, they are cheap but last time I had a site on there it took me 40 minutes to ftp over a few images and a html file. They’re a domain name registrar that moved into hosting later and their unfamiliarity shows, IMHO.

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I’ve been trying out DreamHost for a few months and I love it. For $7.95 a month, you get:
-4.8 gigs of disk space (+an additional 40 MB free per week)
-120 gigs of bandwidth (+an additional 1 GB free per week)
-Debian linux host (does that count as Unix?) with shell/SSH access
-Perl, PHP, MySQL, unlimited domains and subdomains, blah blah

For more details, see this page. Look at the Level 1/“Crazy Domain Insane” plan.

If you want to use them, I can get you a referral code that drops the price down to $22.40 per year. (FWIW, I’m not trying to make money off ya – I don’t get anything out of the referral)

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(Posted too soon.)

The only thing I’m not sure about is if they are a “stable, long-term company”. But then again, which web company is? It doesn’t really matter anyway… if you back up all your files, moving them over to a new host should be pretty easy.

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Another thing I’d like to use is have two domains and possibly several sub-domains. The sub-domains seems available on all of them, but not sure about mutliple domains. Any experience there?

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It depends on the hosting service and plan that you choose.

The Dreamhost plan allows an unlimited number of both domains and subdomains.

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I use godaddy and I’ve never had this kind of trouble; in the ~5 months I’ve been with them, I’ve experienced zero downtime and zero slowdowns.

I don’t know much about the technical stuff (Perl, subdomains, etc.) though.

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Reply, I’d love to get the referral code. My email address is in my profile, thank you.

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I just signed up with www.gazzin.com - Their servers are zippy quick.

Check out their reseller packs.

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I heartily recommend micfo - cheap, reliable, speedy and responsive tech support.

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I don’t mean to hijack this thread, but do any of you know anything about or have any experience with bluehost.com?

I’ve been looking around for hosting sites, and a coworker mentioned them to me.

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I use godaddy and I’ve had no problem with uploads, they go zippy fast. Pics upload in seconds, I mean, 5 or 6 seconds.

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I use www.site5.com myself and think they’re the greatest, but there’s this hosting package from www.hostingplex.com that’s just umbelievably cheap.
site5:
hostingplex (unique plan): 5 GB disk space, 110 GB bandwidth, $3.95 monthly
site5 (they have other cheaper plans): 12 GB disk space, 150 GB bandwidth, $16.95 monthly

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I looked into bluehost when I was shopping around a few weeks ago. I can’t remember why I didn’t pick them but I think it was their terms of service. I ran into a couple that banned “offensive language” but never defined what it meant.

I can seem to find bluehost’s TOS on their site at the moment. Perhaps that’s why I decided against it.

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I use http://www.superb.net and have for the past six or seven years. Very few problems (and those only some network slowdown issues in the past month). Lots of plans and features, a great web control panel where I can call up server stats and adjust configurations. I can host an FTP site or a database and do all kinds of things my high-speed access provider Frowns Upon for the home user.

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I would also be interested. My e-mail is in my profile as well.

Would the account allow me to have multiple domains? www.page1.com and www.page2.com?

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I’m using Micfo myself, www.lsego.com, and it’s been okay so far… no complaints yet, but it’s only been a few weeks. It’s a tad bit pricier than some of the others that people are talking about, though… $23 per YEAR?! That’s crazy!

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I went with Dreamhost and used the referral code from Reply which worked as advertized. It’s pretty hard to find a better deal on a yearlong hosting plan than one for $22. The site is up and running.

Yes, I think there would be no problem with multiple domains, they appear set up for that.

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HubZilla (and anyone else who might be interested), you can use the coupon code “Reply”.

Sign up for the 12-month L1 (Crazy Domain Insane) plan and you will be able to enter the code at Step 5. Just update the total price before you finish the process to make sure that the code went through.

And yes, as Telemark said, multiple domains are included in that plan.

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Reply,

Thanks! I’m loving DreamHost, especially their speed and amount of space. Quick question, though:

4.8 gigs of disk space (+an additional 40 MB free per week)

Does this mean it increases by 40MB a week, so I get 80 the next week, 120 more following week, etc?