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

Yep, in the hosting business almost nobody uses their full allotment, so they can oversell like crazy. The biggest limiter is CPU time and memory it seems. I'm just running a simple gallery (www.hungoverracing.com/tpwalsh/gallery) but it can take a long time to load up the images.

I'm using www.networksolutions.com

You can use their templates or your own software and upload. They also host e-mail for my business. Just another data point.

I hate godaddy hosting, everything is proprietry you have to jump through hoops if you want to do anything out of the ordinary.

I have been using dreamhost for a while and like the interface and features.

My business (http://ProRaceSupply.com) is entirely over the web, running corporate content and ecommerce sites, as well as my own site for 6 years.

I would SERIOUSLY reccomend staying away from GoDaddy and Ipowerweb. They are both miserable excuses for hosting companies. Yes, I suppse if you're just putting pictures of your kids up, there's no problem if it goes down. However I run a number of corporate ecommerce websites and would never use them. If something goes wrong be prepared for days of excuses and finger-pointing before anything is done.

I work with a small business owner who has an extreme vested intrest in your success and runs his business (and your website) that way. Drop me a line if you're interested.

How about www.justhost.com are they good?

I am also looking for a good inexpensive web host...

thanks

I used NPS Internet Solutions (NPSIS.com) for several accounts for about 8 years. The owner sold out and things turned to crap. Poor management rude supervisors, etc. They forgot to pay CPanel and my email was down for 3 days. They lost record of me paying for one account 6 months after I had paid it and started hassleing me about it, They started sending me a daily reminder of my account past due. I told them I was going to turn on my spam filter if they were going to send daily emails and they should stop doing something so silly. So I got an account elsewhere. I then found an old email from them that was 7 months old that proved that I had paid them. They said sorry. Day late and a dollar short.

Anyway I have been on APThost for a few months now and no big problems. One outage from midnight to 2 am once. Gobs of space for $50 per year plus 12 bucks or so for the domain name. Full access to CPanel with everthing included. Fantastico, forum, spamblocker, unlimited email addresses, everything I needed. I will be moving more accounts there soon. I think I get a $50 referral fee if I sign someone else up.

I don't eat at MCDonalds and I don't do GoDaddy. I have heard of Godaddy holding domain names hostage to keep your business.

I have used westhost.com for over 10 years. They have upgraded my account without charge as time/capacities have changed, their management interface works fine, they include a lot of various apps, and they allow me to run other apps. They answer both phone and email promptly and have taken care of any issues including some config problems that they could have just said, "you figure it out" (on server apps I was installing).

Ipowerweb sucks!!!! Down a lot, overpriced, waiting for customer service if forever, and if you run a ecommerce site with them, it will cost you money the first and every time it is down. Plus they find ways to gouge you if you deviate from anything more than the basic web domain. Host Monster though is great. Almost always up, and what I like is that you can direct as many domains to hidden subdomain directories under your domain, and along with creating email accounts under those domains for no additional cost. You can basically host 1000 websites this way for the price of one.

I only use GoDaddy for domain registration.

Signed up with Dreamhost. One year of unlimited hosting for $69.40 after a promotional code.

Now I just have to figure out how to develop a simple site. I've never done it before.

Thank you for responding! I knew I could count on the Pelican brain-trust.

A fellow Pelican who lives 1/2 mile as the crow flies from me hosts mine. I only posted one pic on it. One of these days I gotta learn to use FrontPage.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/hughrose.com

I have an Ipower story to tell.
I've been with them for years. I run my business site on thier servers. I put media there for custoemrs to download and share, guitar backign tracks, soundclips, autocross videos, etc.
Last weeek, they send me a TOS violation noticer for having ANY media on there whatsoever. Seems you're not allowed to have any video, MP3s, nothing. I asked them what if I have a pitrue of my wife there so I can post it on a forum? They said no, not if it's not displayed on the site itself. Basically, anything that is not IMMEDIATELY important to the site is not allowed.
They don't want me to have anything there that I post on forums if it's not on the site. They don't want to let me have my MP3 soundclips of my product because they're "media."

They advertise "unlimited" space and bandwidth. Seems that isn't true either. Go above 100mb or so, and you're "out of the norm" and therefore in violation.
Even on their Windows Hosting "100GB" storage space plan, if you go above about 100mb, you're in TOS violation. They offer it "100GB", but don't want you to use it cause you'll drain thier resorces.
The salespeople, however, will tell you all day that you're allowed to put any sort of file you want there as long as it's not Porn, and they'll tell you "unlimited" space and bandwidth as well.
Liars.:mad: