Website Hosting Services?

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:30 am

I'm looking for a good website hosting service. I currently just use a free one but I wanted to upgrade to more space and get a domain name. It needs have MySQL and include a Domain Name. I would like a nice server but I don't need some 1000$ a month, billion GB bandwidth deal with some dual core Pentium vi processor. Just enough for a small-medium site. Any Suggestions?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:39 am

Host Monster is cost-efficient ($5.95/mo for a two-year plan), free domain for as long as you host with them, up-to-date, reliable, and has a good reputation (On any given ranking site, HM will easily be in the top 3, along with BlueHost, who is the parent company of HM anyways). However, prepare for 60 answers detailing companies you've never heard of explaining why they are Godly and every other host sucks.

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:07 pm

I use Hostmonster. Haven't had a problem yet. Good chat support as well.

Dalek · Post by **Dalek** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:29 pm

Servage.net are quite good.

Ar5eNiC · Post by **Ar5eNiC** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:32 pm

<3 godaddy

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:12 pm

So far I gotta say Go Daddy is lookin like the one im gonna go with, they all look good. However, Go Daddy is the only one that doesn't make u buy a whole year.

Dalek · Post by **Dalek** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:14 pm

Yamagushi wrote:So far I gotta say Go Daddy is lookin like the one im gonna go with, they all look good. However, Go Daddy is the only one that doesn't make u buy a whole year.

Nor doe's servage.
i would subcribe for 3 months when i used it.

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:32 pm

Not really lookin for a UK site lol

Soskel · Post by **Soskel** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:53 pm

Hey,

http://webtechmedia.net offers cPanel(which godaddy doesn't offer)
HostMonster oversells which isn't good.

(First post! I am not a spam bot or anything)

HPDarkness · Post by **HPDarkness** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:49 pm

Host Monster, or GoDaddy. I've never used GoDaddy. But my friend likes it.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:29 pm

Soskel wrote:Hey,

http://webtechmedia.net offers cPanel(which godaddy doesn't offer)
HostMonster oversells which isn't good.

0.002% of the storage space.
0.002% of the bandwidth.
No domain registration at all.
71% of the cost of HM.
For two years with hosting you pay $140. For two years with HM you pay $166.80. You pay 83% of the HM cost and get 0.002% of the storage and bandwidth, as well as much less feature-wise. You pay $1.67 per GB, whereas with HM you pay $0.14. You are paying 1192.86% more for 99.998% less. Why would you consider this a more cost-efficient solution?

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:55 pm

I lawled. Tural what do you think of Go Daddy? You seem to know whats what.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:00 am

I've heard many good things about it. I believe HaloDev, as well as Veegie and Nick's portfolios are hosted with them, and they speak highly of it. For your needs, I'd say it's pretty good. The only disadvantages I see are the lack of cPanel and only one allowed FTP user (However, the latter may not matter to you, but others tend to share hosting with other people).

Dalek · Post by **Dalek** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:33 pm

Yamagushi wrote:Not really lookin for a UK site lol

It's canadian

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:54 pm

Xtreemhost.com is what I use. The free accounts are pretty good (PHP, 4 MSQL databases, lets you have external scripts , decent bandwidth and disk space).

Also, the cheapest plans seem reasonable enough.

Ar5eNiC · Post by **Ar5eNiC** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:56 pm

Tural wrote:...The only disadvantages I see are the lack of cPanel and only one allowed FTP user...

I believe you can have up to 10 FTP accounts.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:57 pm

All of the plans list one FTP user.

Soskel · Post by **Soskel** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:17 pm

Tural wrote:
Soskel wrote:Hey,

http://webtechmedia.net offers cPanel(which godaddy doesn't offer)
HostMonster oversells which isn't good.
0.002% of the storage space.
0.002% of the bandwidth.
No domain registration at all.
71% of the cost of HM.
For two years with hosting you pay $140. For two years with HM you pay $166.80. You pay 83% of the HM cost and get 0.002% of the storage and bandwidth, as well as much less feature-wise. You pay $1.67 per GB, whereas with HM you pay $0.14. You are paying 1192.86% more for 99.998% less. Why would you consider this a more cost-efficient solution?

You get what you pay for couldn't ring any truer than in the web hosting industry. HM oversells. Try actually using the space they give you, and they'll shut you down before 10GBs. Oh, and yes, WTM does offer domain name registration .

GoDaddy doesn't even offer cPanel...

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:24 pm

Your only valid point thus far is cPanel, which, if that is your make-or-break point in a decision, you probably aren't fit to be running a site. WTM requires payment for the domain, so while they do it for you, you're still paying nearly full price for it. GoDaddy gives very reduced prices, HM gives free. You have no valid argument against GoDaddy whatsoever.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:29 pm

Nick and I use GoDaddy.