Website Host Recommend...

Kai Lover Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 638

Are their any good hosts out there that you guys recommend? I need to setup a site for my dad because he is running for senate. It may be just temporarly put up, but you never know. Any suggestions, ideas, thoughts would be appreciated.

Kai Spammer Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 1112

when i was looking for a site alot of people recommended me towards www.godaddy.com

never checked it out, but thats a place to start looking or compare.

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 5024

I use Bluehost.. They've been very good so far.

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1223

its all about dreamhost!

http://www.dreamhost.com

If you enter promo code MAXIMUM when purchasing a 1 year subscription, you get one whole year for $22! (Its the Crazy Domain Insane package, and there is NO contract to stay signed up with them)

Well you are probably asking, what do you get for 1 year? Try this on for size,

20GB (yes that Gigabytes) of Webspace (oh and I think every week you get more space!)
1TB (Yes, thats Terabyte) of Transfer limit PER MONTH!
Unlimited MySQL!
500+ (or it could be unlimited now?) Email
Any domain of your choosing!
and an ass load of other things as well!

I use dreamhost for my website and I have yet to find a downtime on my webspace!

Highly recommended, and I dare someone to find a better deal for shared hosting! I dare you! Laughing

Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:27 pm

They take your domain name though don't they?

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1536

[MF]AmO wrote:

its all about dreamhost!

i'm with them Smile

and also with http://www.4uhosting.co.uk

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1223

guest wrote:

They take your domain name though don't they?

take your domain? what do you mean by this?

I technically own the domain http://www.amadeusdesigns.com and i payed for it through dreamhost when I bought the space.

(you can of course buy extra domains at say, GoDaddy and link them up to your dreamhost website)

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:24 pm

If you sign up a domain with them, don't they lock you in to hosting with them? Later on if you decide to stop hosting they charge you heaps to get the domain back?

Maybe I'm thinking of something else..

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1223

ya i think you are thinking of something else.

Kai Admirer Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 474

how is their technical support?

Kai Admirer Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 324

bluehost

or

www.webhostingbuzz.com

Kai Beginner Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 6

Yo can someone help me? I signed up and got my x-box online, but it says I need a subscription code. Where can I find it?

Kai Lover Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 796

mirokuneo13 wrote:

Yo can someone help me? I signed up and got my x-box online, but it says I need a subscription code. Where can I find it?

HAHAHA....this has nothign to do with this post!!

anyway i awnser this question in your otherpost...no need to duble post i will see it ether way

Kai Beginner Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 30

i use pandela.com is free webhosting with no ads it pretty good place

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 3:02 pm

I'm using Jumba.. it's Australian based hosting, which makes me feel somewhat safer. Uploads are a LOT faster, and so is access.

$36AUD per year for 500MBspace/5GB bandwidth per month and all the usual shit.

I just have to ask,

a) What is the point of 20GB webspace when you'll use about 100 - 200MB?
b) What is the point of 1TB of bandwidth unless you think you're running the next Google?
c) Who *REALLY* needs unlimited MySQL databases?
d) Who needs to set up 50+ email addresses for themselves (unless deciding to spam)?

I mean, $22 isn't bad at all, but I would definately NOT put my shit on DreamHost. Why would you want to share your hosting with all those people that also take up on the offer? I guess US-based hosting is something I really hate being in Australia, so if you live down here, check out Jumba (http://www.jumba.com.au)

$2.95AUD per month is peanuts (for us anyway, our bandwidth costs are MUCH larger than the US and Canada). The business plans are also 50% off for the next 7 days.

These guys offer almost one-on-one support with the people running the show. In fact they frequent the Whirlpool forums (http://www.whirlpool.net.au) and answer questions very quickly.

Kai Spammer Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 1168

guest wrote:

Why would you want to share your hosting with all those people that also take up on the offer?

We like orgies?? Shocked

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1223

i think the point would be similar to gmail, not that you would really ever use it all, just that you never have to worry about filling it up.

So its not really about the numbers, but I can say that the numbers have really helped me, check this:

Webspace, I use about 2GB of mine, and I have done another site that also used 5GB Smile

, so 20GB of space is actually very nice. That same site actually used very close to the bandwidth limit per month, why? because it was a gallery voting page, so everyone that went there was downloading most of the 5GB of files (it was mostly video Wink

) Do the math, 200(viewers) x 5GB = 1000GB, basically approx 1TB Wink

.

Also, im doing work for a small business which uses that same space, we have over 200 emails going through it Smile

As I said, I havent had any problems with them, speeds have been great.

They are based out of LA so if you are in Aussie or the far east, it may not be the fastest servers, but for Euro and US, it is definitely a solid deal. For no other reason, you might as well get it to use as storage because its so damn cheap and customer service has been great Cool