Web Hosting

Hey can anyone recommend a really good web hosting... I'm looking to creat a couple of sites none freebie related

thanks

Hostmonster.com is $5.95 per month if you prepay 24 months. Otherwise $6.95 per month if you prepay a year. Same company as Bluehost. First domain is included. They actually have real US based humans answering the phones. Disclaimer I work there in the accounting department so yes I see the real humans answering the phones. Currently we have 0 customers waiting on hold so hold times are usually short. lol

Otherwise do a DIY freebie site with a hosting offer. YF Direct usually has a couple of web hosting OODs to choose from. See the DIY forum for details.

These are budget hosting options. They will work for most people and small businesses that don't do too much traffic.

I'd personally avoid a company that doesn't give you a phone number.

thanks

I'm a big fan of Dreamhost myself. Been hosting with them for a few years now, after several years with 1and1. DH blows 1and1 away IMO.

I PM'd you with a site much cheaper than most. ;)

I second Dreamhost. I do websites for a living and all my clients who don't have their own server go with them. Every week they up your bandwidth and your server space. I've had them for 3 years and have 3 terabytes of space.

[quotee8ec342504="AdrienD1892"]I second Dreamhost. I do websites for a living and all my clients who don't have their own server go with them. Every week they up your bandwidth and your server space. I've had them for 3 years and have 3 terabytes of space.[/quotee8ec342504]
I was recently promoted to unlimited space and bandwidth. )

Of course, unless you have a dedicated server you can still get booted for hogging CPU cycles, even on an unlimited plan.

If you want a solid hosting with no down times or anything I would recommend Apis Network http//apisnetworks.com/ . I been with them for 3 years. The guys who run it are nice and help you on aim if there is something wrong, however they do prefer the ticket system.

thanks....i'll check them all out

[quote6073ed2287="bullseye4u"]If you want a solid hosting with no down times or anything I would recommend Apis Network http//apisnetworks.com/ . I been with them for 3 years. The guys who run it are nice and help you on aim if there is something wrong, however they do prefer the ticket system.[/quote6073ed2287]
Yeah, they're alright -- they were FiPG's last host before we went self-hosted a couple years or so ago. Personally, I still like Dreamhost better.

I've been pretty happy with Dreamhost too, been with them for over two years now.

I was with dreamhost but switched to 1&1 because they were cheaper than DH. I may go back.

do you have any dreamhost coupons?

[quote29f89f513b="junkie06"]do you have any dreamhost coupons?[/quote29f89f513b]
Yeah, any member can generate discount referral codes off of your first year of hosting, but it only applies to an annual payment, not monthly or quarterly. Here's how it works (and used to work before the recent changes)

They pay members $97 to refer someone who signs up for a year. As a member, you use this payment to fund the discount coupon you provide. So if you wanted to, you could give the entire $97 to your referral in the form of a $97 discount code. Or you could keep some and give the rest to the referral. I always gave the full $97 to my refs, as I wasn't trying to make money and was using it to help out friends and fellow forum members, but a year or two ago they changed the rules and capped the amount you can give as a discount to $50. So they basically force you to keep $47. ) Kinda stupid, but they had an explanation that I don't recall -- something about fraud I think. Anyway, yes I can give you a code for $50 off your first year, which would make it about $70. But for that $70, you get a great deal of functionality. When the year is up, you can renew for full price ($120/yr) which is what I've been doing every year since my first year, or you can go monthly at like $11/mo with is only $1 more than an annual payment. I just prefer the convenience of one payment.

The cheaper plans available at other hosts like 1and1 are stripped down by comparison. If that's all you need though, say to host a simple site and some pictures, then they're fine. But if you want more from a host, I've yet to see any plan that compared in price to DH that had as many features and as much bandwidth/disk space.

Here's their current pricing breakdown

[quote29f89f513b]$5.95 paid 10 years in advance. $10.95/mo monthly, $9.95/mo for 1 year, $8.95/mo for 2 years, $7.95/mo for 3 years, $6.95/mo for 5 years. $49.95 set up fee if you pay monthly.[/quote29f89f513b]

Note that if you start out monthly, they hit you with a $50 setup fee. I don't think this applies after the first year, so it might be more cost effective to pay for your first year with a discount code, then go month to month the next year if you choose.

li As with any shared hosting plan, "unlimited" has some caveats. You cannot use your unlimited disk space to host files for distribution, archive, backups, etc. that isn't tied to your web site. It's okay for uploading pictures of course, but not for setting up a p2p distribution source, a warez/pr0n collection, etc. But as long as you're actually running a site that doesn't consume too much CPU, RAM, or disk I/O, you never have to worry about your site resources growing beyond your hosting plan.

You can use the code [b73416ca877]MDDR[/b73416ca877] at Dreamhost, and it takes the full $97 off, it's not one of those referral codes, it's a different one.

[quote5d2f8b18da="mnx12"]You can use the code [b5d2f8b18da]MDDR[/b5d2f8b18da] at Dreamhost, and it takes the full $97 off, it's not one of those referral codes, it's a different one.[/quote5d2f8b18da]
Hmm, that surprised me, because AFAIK ref discount codes are the ONLY discount codes available. And the $97 discount seems to confirm that, since it's the exact amount of the referral bonus. So I'm reasonably certain that code you have is a referral code too.

To verify, I went and looked at creating a new discount referral code for the full $97 off, and it's letting me, so apparently they've changed their rules again and I wasn't aware.

If anybody wants to try it to make sure it gives you $97 off a year's hosting, it's [b5d2f8b18da]97OFF_FIPG[/b5d2f8b18da]. Again, if it works for $97 off, I won't get paid anything, so don't think I'm spamming referral codes. P

Also, I've never had any downtime with dreamhost... ever.

I have the $5 a month hosting, the cheapest, and again, works wonderfully. Good luck!

I didn't know about the ref codes. Sporatically over the years they've sent me $80 to use as credit, which is always nice. I don't have anything right now though, used my last one when my cycle was up.

Maybe I'll try that the next time see if one works. You could also probably google "Dreamhost Promocode" If you're dedicated enough, I'm sure you'll find stuff. I google promo codes all the time to get cheap stuff.

How'd you get the $5/month plan from DreamHost -- are you grandfathered in on an old plan or something? Or did you really pay 10+ years in advance? Or are there some cheaper bare-bones plans they bury in their site somewhere? I just looked again, and all I see is shared, VPS, and dedicated. According to their current shared hosting price list, to get any sort of price break from the month-to-month $10.95 fee you have to prepay as follows

[quote1b85b8fe0f]$5.95 paid 10 years in advance. $10.95/mo monthly, $9.95/mo for 1 year, $8.95/mo for 2 years, $7.95/mo for 3 years, $6.95/mo for 5 years. $49.95 set up fee if you pay monthly.[/quote1b85b8fe0f]

Also, AFAIK you cannot use any discount or promotion code with a DH renewal. They're only good on initial sign-up (and only on pre-paid plans, not month-to-month). I'd love to be proven wrong though, as my annual renewal is up next month, and I've been paying full price every year since my first year was up.

awesome dmorris....i'm gonna use the code once im done finish my site

FYI, if you use the code '777' today, you get a full year for $9.24. This isn't a referral code, it's an end of year Dreamhost promotion. ONLY TODAY.

Found on SlickDeals.

[quoted3785ad170="gafdpc"]FYI, if you use the code '777' today, you get a full year for $9.24. This isn't a referral code, it's an end of year Dreamhost promotion. ONLY TODAY.

Found on SlickDeals.[/quoted3785ad170]
Yeah it's on the main DH landing page. I'd recommend folks to jump all over this if you want great hosting on the cheap -- while the $97 off code is a good deal, this is even better.

[quote1c7a22b74e="dmorris68"]How'd you get the $5/month plan from DreamHost -- are you grandfathered in on an old plan or something? Or did you really pay 10+ years in advance? Or are there some cheaper bare-bones plans they bury in their site somewhere? I just looked again, and all I see is shared, VPS, and dedicated. According to their current shared hosting price list, to get any sort of price break from the month-to-month $10.95 fee you have to prepay as follows

[quote1c7a22b74e]$5.95 paid 10 years in advance. $10.95/mo monthly, $9.95/mo for 1 year, $8.95/mo for 2 years, $7.95/mo for 3 years, $6.95/mo for 5 years. $49.95 set up fee if you pay monthly.[/quote1c7a22b74e]

Also, AFAIK you cannot use any discount or promotion code with a DH renewal. They're only good on initial sign-up (and only on pre-paid plans, not month-to-month). I'd love to be proven wrong though, as my annual renewal is up next month, and I've been paying full price every year since my first year was up.[/quote1c7a22b74e]

I pay for 2 years at a time, and have from when I started. It's somewhere around $100 (A little more than that) that I pay for the 2 years. I've had them for a really long time, since 2004. I used to have Web.Com, because I worked for them, but their servers kept crashing and then they laid me off, sooo so much for them. ha. But I've gotten $80 credits twice since being with them. I have 3 terabytes of space/bandwidth and keep getting more. I think it's like 40 megs a month or something that I get...
I probably signed up under a promotion, and now just continue with that. I have a normal account, PHP, Perl, MySQL, Manager interface, Email... blahblah.

I just use simple Godaddy, it's cheap and easy, month to month, don't have much traffic so it works fine for me...

[quotefe855f8608="gafdpc"]FYI, if you use the code '777' today, you get a full year for $9.24. This isn't a referral code, it's an end of year Dreamhost promotion. ONLY TODAY.

Found on SlickDeals.[/quotefe855f8608]
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