Comments on: Favorite / Recommended Web Hosts

By: CrayonWeb

CrayonWeb — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:51:21 +0000

Man, nice info, but you could get something more for cheaper price! But keep posting so that people will be informed! Thanks!

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:07:29 +0000

There's no such thing as 'unlimited' hosting, just 'unmetered', but with the amount of bandwidth and storage space on most accounts now, unless you have huge requirements (which would justify a virtual or dedicated server at much higher cost), you can pay less than $10 a month for a good host. I recommend Hostgator* for paid hosting, or HostMe123 for free hosting (or you can pay $7 to get rid of ads for the lifetime of your hosting account). (* aff link).

By: Heidi Cool

Heidi Cool — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:33:11 +0000

Since this entry was first posted I've used Dreamhost for two projects and have been quite pleased. Their control panels give a lot of control to the account holder, and between their Wiki and their user discussion groups it is easy to find answers before even thinking about calling support.

By: Munteanu Claudia

Munteanu Claudia — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:24:41 +0000

Hello.Try http://www.sabwebhosting.com .Cheap prices, interesting hosting plans.You can create your custom hosting plan.They use Plesk linux servers and Plesk windows server and are pretty fast.Many big companies treat you like dirt,because they rely on their big number of clients.With medium companies is better.Have a good day!

By: Web Host Buzz

Web Host Buzz — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:18:01 +0000

I've been using a SLhost for over a year now after originally moving from a shared hosting account & haven't looked back. Being from Australia many of the shared hosts from the US are fairly slow for us so moving to a dedicated box has made a huge difference.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:45:11 +0000

That's pretty good. I've never really heard of the unlimited web hosting thing. I've always used DarkStar for web and shell hosting accounts.

By: Jeremy Smith

Jeremy Smith — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:29:32 +0000

I use Textdrive. Bought it back when they had a special. It was a one-time $400 fee, and I got lifetime webhosting. It included shell accounts and such and enormous bandwidth and storage. I can't remember the exact numbers, but I've never been close to hitting any of them. About a dozen sites run there. I've been happy with them. Sadly, they no longer seem to offer the $400/lifetime special. I've heard good things about Dreamhost from people I trust that use it, but I have no personal experience with them.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:45:59 +0000

Wow! Those are some amazing storage and bandwidth stats. I use ICDSoft for my personal webapge. My cost is $6/month. For that amount I get: 1000 MB Storage 20 GB Data Transfer 15 Subdomains 5 Parked Domains FTP accounts - Web based mail - $5 new domain registration fee - etc. And while I don't get as much stuff for my dollar as other hosting services - I will never leave ICDSoft. Why? Customer Service. Ever problem or issue I ever had was solved within minutes. The support ticket system works in almost real time. I just reviewed the 42 tickets I submitted and nearly all were solved in less than 5 minutes. Here is one example: "Q: Dec 21 2004 03:43 dave : it appears that i've been hacked. http://websitename.com/weblog can you help me figure out how this happened? A: Dec 21 2004 03:45 Support54: Hello, The "hacker" was searching for worldwritable files on accounts on the server and was replacing them with the "This Site is Defaced" message. Apparently files on your account were worldwritable (permissions 666 or 777). You should examine all the files and change the permissions to 664 or 775, as appropriate. You need not use 777 or 666 permissions on our server anymore. We have started using SuExec on the server, which greatly improves the security and stability. This environment also executes scripts with the user credentials, instead of the Apache ones, so your scripts can access all your files and folders. We can restore your site from our backups, dated 10 and 17 Dec. Please advise which backup we shall use. Best Regards, Support" Now that's quality customer service.

By: Heidi Cool

Heidi Cool — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:40:02 +0000

I use The Geek Empire because I like to support locally owned businesses. In this case they are particularly local because it is operated by Case staff and alumni. When I have a question or need to expand my capacity they respond quickly. I find it reassuring to know that someone knowledgeable is there to answer my questions. This is not true of the folks at my ISP who like to ask me silly things like which version of Windows I am using—when my query is related to my shell account on their Linux box (to which I'm connecting from a Mac). Also, now that I use http://www.flickr.com for photos I've found that I don't run out of space on the server as quickly as I did in the past. Thus, I don't really need terabytes of space for $9.99 or whatever. What I really need is to find the time to update my sites and knock off some of the cobwebs that have been building up!

By: mgh

mgh — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:50:40 +0000

I use WebFaction. When I first decided to get an account on a web host (so I could stop hosting my domain on my home DSL connection with dynamic IP address), I found the number of choices overwhelming. Some offered crazy limits like your ITS friend mentioned, while others seemed more realistic. From what I read about picking a hosting solution, the companies who offer crazy unlimited limits are sort of shady and you'll get a surprise if you actually try to reach those limits. Anyway, basically I just got tired of doing research and picked WebFaction because I read on a friend's blog that he used them and wasn't too disappointed with them. I think I pay $7.99 a month.