Any help is appreciated.

If you are running high volume sites, it basically boils down to money, their hardware infrastructure, bandwidth, and alot of trial and error.

Please note that most economy hosts are someone who is renting a single server anbd selling host accounts on it and will not be good for high volume commercial/production sites, but might be fine for the hobbiest or low volume community.

That said, I have made alot of bad choices without knowing any better, and since we have used Schlunde.de's USA arm, 1and1.com ... one of the worlds largest hosts with clustered and secure infrastructure with lots of bandwidth to serve large volume sites. THey cost a little more but to me it is worth it.

I am just hosting a personnal website, it's just for fun so I can dapple with the coding. My only requirements are PHP, CGI and MySQL - just the basics for now. I really don't need much bandwidth and if I was diligent about maintaining my files I won't need much space so a dedicated server is really overkill. I'd be willing to pay more for decent tech support though. I'm wondering if I should go with a smaller host rather than one of the big names since it is not for business, more personal service perhaps?

Thanks for the suggestions, I will check out westhost and 1and1.com. I have been reading some on webhostingtalk which has helped me some.

The frustration continues .....

They were too small for my needs, but they were inexpensive, decent support, always addressed issues in a timely manner, and the speeds were pretty decent. They have packages starting at $1.90 a month up to $4.90 a month.

With hosting you get what you pay for, I don't want ads and I want stats. Laughing Squid gives great Webalizer stats with a Plone interface for working directly from uploaded files. Sweet.

It divides hosting into linux and windows hosting so that you can easily search for PHP or ASP.NET hosting.

Another great thing is, it only gives you web hosting that provides multiple site hosting, 100GB+ disk space and 1000GB/month bandwidth for both Windows and Linux Hosting.
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Don't listen to "Kelvin" -- the "reviews" on their site are written only by them, not by other users, and they get a kickback for every visitor that they send onto the hosting site. They're not even real reviews, either, just summaries of services. Real reviews tell you how fast a network is, how reliable their data center is, how good their support center is, etc.

Reasonable prices and excellent service

i wanted to find really best hosting in net.
IMHO it should be free, fast and easy to use.
There was a difference, but i stoped on that photo hosting
To tell you the truth - i don't get what people need else...

As far as the link posted above; It does look simple, but I sure wouldn't trust it. The poster just joined here the day they posted so looks like "Spam" to me and should be avoided.

It's unfortunate so many people go around looking for cheap or free hosting in my opinion. Do you run around town looking for free offices for rent for your storefront? No. There's no such thing and if there were, it'd be a little condemned shack that wouldn't give your business much support or credibility. Not to mention most cheap hosts have hidden expenses for standard business requirements like charging an extra monthly fee for a unique ip address and an additional monthly fee for phone support. Already by that point it's usually cheaper to have gone with what seemed like the expensive host to begin with.

There are a lot of good hosts out there but the trouble that no one can really help you with is finding one that works with you the way that works best for you and your business. I tend to favor the medium sized hosts and stay away from the large hosts that try to cater to everyone and offer cheap bulk hosting.

Phil,
Computer based training - cbt

As far as the poster above, first I noticed the name and then the broken english was a dead give away. When you check their My Page they joined the day they posted and their location. All red flags for me! I wouldn't trust that site at all. Just my opinion.

* Posted by anovaguy (My Page) on
Fri, Nov 9, 07 at 21:41

Check out hostgator.com

Reasonable prices and excellent service

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I see them all over the internet. But don't they cater to larger business. What about the little guy like me who's just enjoying dabbling online?
I've been looking into these guy's below. Any thoughts?

Good luck!