I recently purchased web hosting plan from www.avahost.com. Their prices aren't the best, but I was able to get a full-featured web hosting package involving tons of built-in CGI scripts, such as forums, chatrooms, guestbooks, shopping carts, and couple dozen other things, as well as 20 Gb of bandwidth and 500 MB of disk space for just under <$100/year. I think this a good web-hosting deal but I wonder if there are any better hosts that could host my site that have a similar plethora of idiot-proof hosting features and similar (or better ) bandwidth allowances for a cheaper price. I know there are cheaper servers out there, but I need something similar and just as reliable to host my website. Do any webmasters here know of a better place for my situation? I could cut back on the filesize needed (500mb is a bit excessive) but I'm probably going to need the 20Gig bandiwdth because i have a steady fanbase from a large, unrelated forum who are going to frequent my site in addition to daily traffic (which I hope to maximize).
Are you saying it's a better deal or are you just trying to get a refferal. But I need some vital things, like an invisionboard script or something. I don't see anything about that being built in.
I don't get much for a referral. However I thought of that because of the pre-installed scripts. There are tons of them. Blogs b2 b2evolution pMachine Free WordPress  Content Management Drupal Geeklog Mambo Open Source phpWCMS phpWebSite Siteframe  Discussion Boards Invision Board phpBB2 YaBBSE And lots more
great! EDIT: but wait, their medium plan is essentially the same as avahost, and it wouldn't be worth the hassle because it would acutally cost me more to host there. any other sites?
Not sure exactly what you are looking for David, since my own hosting is very simplified. But I am hearing good things about hostingwithus.com (no referral)
You could always ask asmallorange for a better deal. It's worth a try. There is a 'custom plan' calculator there somewhere to. My other idea would be ICDSoft
"But I am hearing good things about hostingwithus.com" The bandwidth there seems VERY expensive. 50GB transfer is $360/yr!!! I guess there is no universally cool host - I might have to just spend a few hours filtering through all the junk tonight.
i have used Mediatemple (www.mediatemple.net) for a long time now and have been very happy because of there customer service and great uptime and server controls. but there prices are high compared to a lot of the thousands of hosts out there. -dan
I've been happy with the service and pricing of www.realwebhost.net It uses Cpanel with a bunch of built in fool-proof scripts.
I like this twister http://nightmarebeforechristmas.itwister.net/ I will be gettin a tattoo of jack at somepoint this year Bit of a fan myself... I bought a bit of art from this guy that he had done of one of the 3 kids, but it never arrived I was so dissapointed...
I went with Lunar Pages for my hosting. For $7.95 a month I get 1000 meg storage and 40 gigs bandwidth. The customer service is UNBELIEVABLE. Telephone support most of the day and email support 24/7. They have all the free scripts like chatrooms and photo galleries and a bunch of other stuff. Cpanel as well. I couldnt be happier - plain and simple. Lunar Pages is top notch in my book.
That was a small site i put together to go with my halloween theme that i'll be releasing for the mac on october first. It has a few jack elements in it. I love the movie too!
I started using http://www.webhostsaustralia.com.au/ for some of my sites, they have Aussie based servers and US based ones, and i can honestly say i have never seen Tech support like it. The best support that many places need to consider. VERY Fast, helpful and all hours! I have seen my fair share of pathetic hosts, now i've seen one that beats most of them.
Varhosting.net, use there customer support once and you'll be hooked. The reseller account allows you to have multiple websites/domains and is still very cheap.