Website hosting.. Who should I use?
 

Go Daddy? Yahoo? Who?

What are you looking to do? Something simple, then possibly godaddy.

I have used www.dreamhost.com and www.1and1.com

Of the two, I like Dreamhost better.

Simple site, lots of photos that will change regularly. No e-commerce or database or SSL.

Looking at Yahoo's unlimited for $10/mo or Go Daddy's 1500GB for $6.50/mo

Any others I should consider? Any personal experience?

I run my own servers out of my house, not experienced with hosting companies these days. Just make sure the company you use, has their own backup of there systems. You really don't need to host with a company that has great prices, but then has a major server crash and can't restore your info.

Dave

I used godaddy for one site. Its cheap, but their managements software sucks, and their always trying to upsell you on some sort of baloney.

Most of my stuff is on hostingmatters.com.

They're not cheap, and they have e-mail only support, but I have been using them for close to 10 years, and have had very, very little downtime. All questions/problems submitted via e-mail are answered immediately by a human being that speaks english.

I also have a dreamhost site, but it seems like the CPU times are through the roof, making my site really slow. Do you have the same experience? OTOH I love the fact that I've got a real shell to login to.

I use goDaddy and Flickr for the photo posting; works great for me.

goDaddy support is awesome fwiw.

Have fun, post some links when u r done

I use hasweb.com . They're a subdivision of HostDime and have only gone offline once in the four years I've had them (during a server move). They're not expensive. Their support is helpdesk only (no phone support) which cuts back on their costs tremendously.

I don't like godaddy, they won't release a registered name. I've used 101sitehosting for personal & dreamhost for my business.

GoDaddy's neverending marketing emails rub me the wrong way. BTW, their founder owns the local BMW bike dealership and takes all the hot new models home for himself to break in, then sells them at a discount after he's put 800 miles or so on each of them.

I use Ipower.com for my hosting. Their online chat tech support is awesome!

I'm using hostmonster.
I have an account at bizhost which I redirect to hostmonster.
I tried bizhost first but Bizhost was unusuable. Too bad I paid for 3 years....
-Chris

for a second there, I thought you were talking about the "GoDaddy girls"! :eek:

hostgator.com

I use godaddy, and I can't ever remember any downtime. Their hosting software sucks, and they do constantly try to sell you stuff you really don't need. I've been with them for something 10 years, way before they had all the "extras" to sell, and I can't comment about tech support. since I never needed it. Just do what I do, design your pages yourself, and FTP them up to your site.

i'm using ixwebhosting. no complaints. telephone support is good.

We use Acenet, Inc. (ace-host.net) for our own site and host a few sites there as well. Very hppy with their service. When we had one or two minor issues, they were always resolved quickly.

I use this for 5 or so sites. Very happy, good control panel.

I haven't had that problem, but the pages it serves are simple HTML and images, nothing complex.

I am planning on dropping 1and1 when my contract is up, and moving everything to dreamhost.

Currently shedracing.com is on 1and 1, set up when they had their free professional package, back in 2003. I ran out of space fairly quickly, and set up the dreamhost account to serve photos and video, with the domain shedracing.net.

These are on Dreamhost:

http://www.shedracing.net/nasa_thill_nov06/thillenduro06index.html
http://www.shedracing.net/nasa_thill_aug06/index.html

For comparison, here is a similar page from 1and1.

http://www.shedracing.com/NASA_thill_may05/index2.html

What I like most about dreamhost is the bandwith and disk space are pretty generous, and grow weekly. I think my plan started at 4096 GB per month, and grows 40 GB/week. Currently my monthly bandwith cap is 8605 GB/month. The disk space grows weekly as well, currently my limit is 425.5 GB, and I am nowhere near that.

Evidently it doesn't matter any more, they removed the caps, and it is cheaper now.

http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html


Tom