After spending the better part of the day trying to find good recommendations for a new web host, I think it would be a good addition to the site to add a section dedicated to hosting. I visited webhostingtalk.com, but to say the least they were no help. It's extremely difficult to find any coherrent and helpful information there (besides being spammed by would-be fly-by night hosts). I trust the opinions of the Digitalpoint members more, and I know that they at least know what they are talking about.
LOL. The most infuriating thing about Webhostingtalk is that they can't even answer a simple question. I asked for some suggestions for hosts that would meet certain requirements... all they say is search. I'm was just looking for some established companies that you can check out...
If you need recommendations, there have been dozens of those threads here. Or, you could always start a new one.
Well this specific site is a basic static HTML based site, which will perhaps need a forum at a later stage. It's a new topic I'm trying out. In case it doesn't work out I'm thinking of hosting my wallpaper site there (that's why my bandwidth requirements are a bit steep). Requirements: Storage: 2GB+, Bandwidth: 30+ MySQL + PHP Must be reliable If possible payment for hosting in monthly or 6 monthly cycle.
I was trying to find details on hosting as I start to put a comparison chart together. Funny how a great host like Site5 is rarely mentioned in those charts. I don't suppose that has anything to do with a comparatively low commission? It is a spammy field. Mods would have to step on a lot of toes to keep it legit.
All the domain forums I see that have hosting sections are filled with massive amounts of hosting spam. The last thing I want to be seeing when I click "new posts" is half the threads being "buy my hosting I'm teh best" and the other half being "welcome newbie".
Well I didn't think of the policing aspect. I was actually just thinking about people sharing their experiences with their hosts, not a I can offer you this and that. It's very difficult to get unbiased opinions. Either people want to you to click on their refferal links or they just moan about how bad a host is.
Note the submissions I left here in a hosting directory Joey put together based on a thread I started. http://www.vbwebmaster.com/links/browselinks.php?c=2 Thread here: http://www.vbwebmaster.com/forums/showthread.php?t=220 Have fun, there is great information in the thread and in the directory linked...... .........................................................................................
is there really a difference amongst hosts? best to stay away from the obvious resellers, 40mb storage and 1 gig bandwidth for $100/second 1and1 have served me well, asmallorange sound pretty competent and dreamhost seem to be able to supply.
There's definitely a difference as far as quality goes. So far I've got a decent list compiled of maybe's. Bluehost.com Site5.com Hostingzoom Webhostingbuzz.com Problem is that most of them want 1 year paid in advance. But of a stretch of my budget for an experimental site.
i agree too that a sub forum on webhosting should be added. like now, i ahve a hosting question but i don't know where to post it.
I got a cheap servage.net account for $7.50 per month. It's pretty bare bones as far as interface because they don't do Cpanel or PSA however you get 17GB per day transfer (510GB a month) and 25GB of server space. If you have a basic site and don't need a reseller account or SSH access then it's a great deal. I have a site doing the limit of bandwidth per day and it's been great. http://www.servage.net