Hosting Recommendations?

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totaljerkface

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Hello... I'm looking for a good hosting deal. Right now I'm looking at http://www.dreamhost.com

i'd go with the "Crazy Domain Insane" deal...

1 FREE domain registration
www.yourname.com
UNLIMITED domains hosted
15 subdomains
4800 MB Disk, 120 GB Transfer
600 Mailboxes, 75 Shell/FTP Users

9.95 a month for month by month.

servers are dual Intel® Xeon 2400MHZ with 1GB of ram or above


Is this a good deal? Does anyone who knows have any obvious recommendations?

thanks.....
 
How many domains do you plan to have?

I paid £35 for a domain and hosting from 4uhosting.co.uk for a year.
I have 500MB space and 10000 MB bandwidth. 2 MySQL Databases (useful if you want to use a proper content management system). Support and reliability are excellent. It has plenty of pre-installed scripts (ok not pre-installed but you install by just selecting them from your control panel).

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Because mailboxes don't cost the provider anything and allow them to put big numbers in the advertisement.

You can find cheaper places, which I would recommend if it's just a personal site. I pay $4.95/mo for one of my hosting plans (www.lonex.com), and $2.95/mo for the other (www.veraperez.net). Both offer free domain registration with the hosting plan.
 
No offense, but I find it hard to believe you'll use more than 40GB of traffic each month on a personal site without some kind of illegal activity going on that would void your hosting agreement. It's your money though :)
 
I have a better idea -- if you sign up to dreamhost using the code "1lovesyouguys", your cost for the simple crazy plan should be about $22.50. This is because they let me apply my referrer kickback to discount the cost of the referred, if I want. So i set this up for friends, to let them sign up cheap. I get the minimum kickback this way, ~$17 iirc. Good luck -- I think dreamhost is the best if you want a straightforward, basic plan on a reliable server.
 
crusher... i'm actually preparing for a pretty big hit of traffic later this year. i released a flash game, (divine intervention) 2 years ago and my site got completely whiped out within a few days..... using 30 gigs of bandwidth.

hey thanks poopypoo.... i may consider that... but im not sure if i need one of the bigger plans
 
oops.... i didn't understand what you meant poopypoo...

i guess you are saying that instead of hte initial 49.95 setup fee for teh month to month, i'd pay 22.50?
 
hey thanks a lot poopypoo! i just signed up and used your referral code... it gave me $50 off! basically i got to pay the month to month price without any setup fee.
 
totaljerkface said:
crusher... i'm actually preparing for a pretty big hit of traffic later this year. i released a flash game, (divine intervention) 2 years ago and my site got completely whiped out within a few days..... using 30 gigs of bandwidth.
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Ah, I stand corrected. Good luck :)
 
I've been using www.nathosting.com for a while now and have had good luck. 5 dollars a month, 2gb of space, to 5 separate domains, unlimited subdomains, 50 gb of bandwidth, unlimited mysql, one-click installs for a variety of different website software, and probably more. No free domain registration, though, but really, that's just an extra 5 to 10 bucks per year anyways.

Unfortunately, I woke up this morning to find out that both of my websites, (www.TianjinExpats.com and www.ChinaSchoolReview.com), have been banned in China, and I believe a third site related to China, which I don't own, and which uses the same hosting service, may be the culprit. Thus, I may be looking for a new webhost myself here pretty soon, so keep the recommendatiosn coming.
 
totaljerkface said:
hey thanks a lot poopypoo! i just signed up and used your referral code... it gave me $50 off! basically i got to pay the month to month price without any setup fee.
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hey no problem :) it's pretty cool that they let us do that... dreamhost is a pretty cool place to be. i even enjoy their goofy little monthly newsletter. good luck ;D

also... heh... clashman... i'm in shanghai... so i feel your pain ;) you need some proxy love!
 
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