Who hosts your website? I need help.

I went to several web hosting review sites and all gave me different answers. I picked a name that came up number 1 on one of the review page and did a search for more reviews on it. I found a page that said the review was flypaper, the the review site was actually owned by the hosting company and to avoid them. Then I found an artical that stated that many review sites for web hosting services are phony.

Can those of you that have websites tell me who hosts yours and how happy you are with them and why do you use them over another service?
Here is my level of experience. I have created websites in school in two diffent classes. Did the html thing and basic javascript. I also have a full set of macromedia software that I might want to learn how to use. I plan on learning more on my own but I am definately a novice at this point.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Here is a thread on the same subject. Lots of good info.

CPF uses Digital Princeton and I can't say enough about them!! They have been so incredibly awesome with CPF and I would recommend them to anyone and everyone! Tell them that CPF sent you! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I've been very happy with www.your-site.com Lots of space and transfer for $5 per month. Tell them egeorgeonline.com sent you /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

JonSidneyB,
They do not have the fastest page loads but they are free and the Trellix software is easy enough my dog could build a website if I had one. Give http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ a try.

I have 2 sites hosted on Tripod. Upgraded to the Pro package that costs me about 8 bucks a month including a domain name. 50Mb space, I think it`s 5 gigs of bandwidth per month, 5 e-mails and some other stuff including CGI support.

Do NOT use their free service. The pop-ups are absolutely unnaceptable and the webspace/bandwidth/etc are poor too. The last freebie-Tripod site I visited shoved 2 of them in my face, and added another one when I tried to close them again. Plus on-site banner ads. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

The pay-for service is good though. No complaints here, plus the ability to add/edit the site on the move via the web-FTP interface is great.

But, you get what you pay for as I`m sure you`re well aware of /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif so if you don`t pay for your Tripod hosting, don`t expect many visitors as they`ll all be driven away by the damn popups......


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Whats the BEST, CHEAPEST non free host, that gives you 50 to 100 meg?

I use AT&T Worldnet. Even Slashdot couldn't crash them. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
You get 60MB of storage and 6 email addresses. And no unwanted popups or banners. But I pay $21.95 a month for this plus unlimited dial-up service, so it probably isn't the cheapest. And you're limited to 10MB per email address, so my LED Museum site has pictures stored in other subdomains, like "safeco2" and "insulatorz".
You might therefore see things like <img src="http://insulatorz.home.att.net/sample.jpg"> on my site, even though the HTML pages all live at http://ledmuseum.home.att.net

I keep it simple for my personal stuff and have my webspace through my ISP (Earthlink). They will also, of course, host one's domain name, etc. and they have a large technical assistance group just because they are a large carrier.

If your ISP can't handle your webspace needs at reasonable cost and with reasonable competance, maybe a new ISP is in order? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif




P.S. The Earthlink servers are also UNIX based (Solaris/Apache) rather than MS based (W2K/IIS) so that also gives Earthlink a slight edge on bug count and security ...

Well, my ISP gives me 5 meg for a homepage. Needless to say, thats not near enough. i am contacting them to see if I can have more space, if I can, it will be great, but if not, im going to have to find a good host,,, I will have to keep my current ISP.

jtice, 5M is a bit too tight, IMHO. Just a regular US$19.95/mo. dialup at mine gives 8 e-mail addresses and 80MB of web space.

Storage is so cheap these days that only giving 5MB with an account is ridiculous - heck, even some wristwatchs have more memory than that. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Tomas.. I though it was alittle pathetic also. I have cable modem,, its lightning fast, but as far as a host they suck. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif And they still havnt returned my email, asking them if I can buy more space.

I'm on cable, also, jtice. (ISP: Earthlink; Cable access: Comcast, nee AT&T). It's via an arrangement Earthlink has with the local cable provider(s) in some areas. I get just one bill from, uh, "TCI" (the original cable provider that was bought by AT&T and then Comcast) and the monthly is just a touch lower than the curent AT&T cable/ISP combo, and I managed to stay with my existing ISP (Earthlink).

(Did that make sense? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif I'm not going to reread it to find out ... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif )

Many cable providers are now allowing other ISP's even though you use their cable for access as this is what is keeping them out of trouble with the FCC these days. It's a form of unbundling of services so they won't be thought a monopoly ...

It might not hurt to check with them, assuming they ever answer. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I use Amhosting http://www.amhosting.com/ and my address is registered with Dotster
http://web.dotster.com/. Amhosting has been wonderfull and has incredible
customer service. The
plan I currently have is the "regular" plan found here
http://www.amhosting.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Virtual&file=index

Regular Plan
¤ 150 MB of Storage Space
¤ Unlimited Email Aliases
¤ Unlimited Email Forwardings
¤ 20 Email Groups
¤ Catch-All Email Account
¤ 6 gigs of data transfer per month
¤ 20 Email Pop Accounts
¤ 20 Autoresponders
¤ .htaccess
¤ Perl 5.6.1
¤ Perl Module Built into Apache
¤ SSI support
¤ Support for WAP-developed sites
¤ Sendmail support
¤ Outgoing Smtp Support
¤ Real Audio/Video support
¤ Control Panel
¤ CGI-BIN
¤ Pre-installed perl scripts
° Guestbook
° Yabb Board
° Web based email
° Shopping Cart
° Hit Counter
° PHP FormMail
° and much more...
¤ MySQL
¤ PHP4
¤ Frontpage 2002 Support
¤ Frontpage 2000/98 Support
¤ Customizable Error Pages
¤ Access to raw logs
¤ Access to error logs
¤ Webstats
¤ Excellent Customer Support
¤ 10 Webuser Accounts
¤ $9.95 per month + $0.00 startup

Who hosts my website? I do. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
http://zmoz.com

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Who hosts my website? I do. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
http://zmoz.com

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You gotta be kidding me!!

5GB Webspace
40GB Bandwidth (transfer)
Unlimited POP
Unlimited Aliases/Forwards
Unlimited FTP
Unlimited MySQL
Unlimited PHP
Webmail
CGI
SSI
FrontPage 2002 Extensions
Password Protected Directories
Web based file manager
Site Statistics
More!

for $5 a month????? What gives??

That's a ridiculously good price. I kinda wish I had seen that about 2 weeks ago, before I renewed at www.cihost.com.

But I was on a shared virtual server with shell access before, and I just switched to a dedicated server. One problem I had with their shared servers was that they didn't provide SSL on their POP3 server, and I wasn't allowed to install my own SSL tunnel. They just had a special deal on the dedicated server, that was actually a few bucks cheaper than my original shared plan, so I switched. And now I can tweak things as much as I want; I'll probably replace their sendmail install with postfix or something else and start installing my own custom spam filters. (That was the other aggravating thing...)

Having been a Unix hacker since 1986 or so, I really prefer having my own machine. I've got web space with AT&T/Comcast 'cause of my cable modem account, but that's tiny, and I have my home server, but you're not allowed to use it as a public access server. So a dedicated or co-located ISP host is the only choice that makes sense.

I have one hosted at GODADDY.com
10 meg 500meg throughput 24/7 voice contact. ~ $6/month. Very happy with them. the site is too small for what I want. There are better deals.
I also have one at JumpDomain.com. It took 7 days for them to answer my email. I'm new at this and they have non password protected sites, I think. Still learning /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
100MB Disk Space
5GB Transfer
5 Sub Domains
50 Email Accounts
5 FTP Accounts

$7.95 A Month
I just have to learn how this works.
there's a www folder that I have to put the page into. I think
DUH! will be what I say when I do figure it out.
Tom

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zmoz said:
Who hosts my website? I do. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
http://zmoz.com

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You gotta be kidding me!!

5GB Webspace
40GB Bandwidth (transfer)
Unlimited POP
Unlimited Aliases/Forwards
Unlimited FTP
Unlimited MySQL
Unlimited PHP
Webmail
CGI
SSI
FrontPage 2002 Extensions
Password Protected Directories
Web based file manager
Site Statistics
More!

for $5 a month????? What gives??

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Well, mainly it's just a limited time thing. We are selling it at just barely more than cost, to gain customers that will be happy to recomend us. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif That's the only way to compete with literally thousands of other hosts...

... and always remember... you get what you pay for. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon6.gif