Website Hosting

[GT98]

Any suggestions for website hosting? I'm mostly looking at hosting photos and playing with idea of making a website. Any suggestions for something thats somewhat cheap? And no my ISP doesn't offer webspace, which sucks

[Tjalfe]

www.concordhosting.com has been pretty good for me so far..

$5.99US

https://www.yourdomain.com

500MB disk space
100 pop3 accounts
unlimited subdomains
CGI, Php, MySQL
5GB/month bandwidth
FrontPage extensions
WebMail
plus much more

edit: put in price

[Dilitante1]

could always ask Sasq

[Jammrock]

I use 1&1 Web Hosting. I got in on their free 3-year package deal and it's been rock solid. Only had 1 day when the SQL server was acting flacky, but beyond that no glitches.

Packages here:

http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Hosting;jsessionid=3C2B598ABB30BFD3FBFBC1A70004BA23.TC61a?__frame=_top

For $4.99 you get:

Includes 1 domain at no additional cost (.com, .net or .org only)
No additional costs for domain transfers
External domains - Point up to 50 domains to 1&1 name servers
10 subdomains
DNS Management
Domain Contact Management
Package Features:
Hosted on I/O optimized 1&1 Linux version
500 MB web space
5 GB/month bandwidth
FTP access
Software worth $550, including NetObjects Fusion 7.5
FrontPage 2002 Extensions
Ready to run CGI scripts
Manage an unlimited amount of domains under one package
Daily backups of your Website
1&1's award-winning Control Panel
Performance Features:
WebsiteCreator with 12 pages
1&1 Chat channel
1&1 WebStatistics
Access to log files
E-mail Features:
50 POP3 e-mail accounts with 50 MB space each
100 e-mail aliases
1&1 WebMail
E-mail forwarding
Auto-responders
Catch-all e-mail addresses
Symantec virus scan protection for 1 POP3 account
Support:
Free 24 hour professional Support by phone & e-mail
90-Day Money Back Guarantee

Jammrock

[az]

I also use 1&1 (the german mother, though), and it's very fast, reliable, cheap and straight forward.

AZ

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by tjalfe
www.concordhosting.com has been pretty good for me so far..

I also use concordhosting and have been very happy with them. If you pay 3 months/year in advance, you get discounts too. I pay 3 months at a time it costs me 14.99 compared to ~$18.

Dave

[isochar]

Another vote for 1&1.

[skinrock]

iPowerWeb

http://ipowerweb.net/products/webhosting/index.html

There's the standard package, 7.95/month
You get 800 mb storage, 40 gig transfer, 400 pop3 accounts with WebMail, 10 subdomains, FTP, lots of support. CGI, PHP, mySQL Perl and FrontPage are some scripts they support. I think I ended up paying a little over 90 bucks for the entire year, which include a new domain. I have never seen any down time, and the admin panel has loads of features, with a bunch of tools you can use for your site, such as a chat, forum, and...photo gallery.

[Jammrock]

iPowerWeb seems to have very expensive extras. $30 setup is par, but $20 a year for a domain name? Ouch.

Jammrock

[Duty]

or you can go another direction and pick up a cheep server and sell off the extra space. Get some space and make a little cash at the same time...

http://www.valueweb.com/dedicated/dedicated-hosting.htm

[az]

Why would anyone want to rent his server space, if they can get it cheaper first-hand? Aside from the legal implications and the hassle this would mean.

AZ

[TnT]

I've been recommended http://www.dreamhost.com before.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by TnT
I've been recommended http://www.dreamhost.com before.

Yeah, I really like them. It's like $10/month, but I went with them because I get a virtual Linux box with my own shells and stuff.

And this week they just upped everyone's disk space and bandwidth by %60, for free.

[Jessterw]

Toss another recommendation for Dreamhost in. In the three years I've been with them I've seen my plan upgraded several times. Recently I was even able to upgrade to a plan two levels above mine for the price of on one level up.