Web Hosting

[avaloncm]

Who do you recommend for web hosting? I don't need site design or templates, I just need a company who will host my page. ie www.bluehost.com for $7.95 a month? Who do you use and what is your experience? Thanks!

[stathunter]

Personally I use godaddy........ I have several sites I run through them and in the 10 years I have been using them-- no problems at all-- and when I have a question I can call and get things resolved very quickly. The pricing is cheap.

[tim]

There are big threads on web hosting. I've tried many hosts and had many bad experiences, but i'm with HostGator now (http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=m96rty-hr).

Godaddy support is terrible, they seem to just email you form letters. Their website's confusing, misleading, and always trying to sell you things you don't need. I would never use godaddy, but they are one of the biggest hosts in the world. Still, i've used them and didn't enjoy the experience. They make simple things difficult.

[ZGMF-X20A]

I'm with 1&1 (http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6423749). So far so good, especially for the price. Usually as low as $3.49 per month, but with the promotion now, you can get $2.49 for the first six months

[stathunter]

wow Tim.....seems like you had a bad godaddy experience. I have nothing but good things to say about them.....service has been great...no problems at all.

[tim]

It usually took three days to resolve any issue, their response times were pretty bad. I'm what you'd call an advanced user though.

I read recently on another forum that a godaddy customer had a spammer hitting their web form thousands of times a day. Instead of blocking their IP, which is a trivial task, godaddy support changed the website to another IP. That's a fairly stupid solution, causes problems for a day or so for the website, and was totally unnecessary.

[ZGMF-X20A]

One thing is, the customer could also use .htaccess to do that himself (assuming linux+apache hosting)

[tim]

Exactly.

[jgoodstein]

I'm with 1&1 (http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6423749). So far so good, especially for the price. Usually as low as $3.49 per month, but with the promotion now, you can get $2.49 for the first six months


+1

I have websites hosted here, own a few servers here, and am very pleased with every aspect of there services.

[dipps]

lunarpages.com for me.

i have two sites through them and no complaints. staff has always been easy to work with the few times i've had to deal with them.

[eric.brown]

serverbeach for me...but they only do full dedicated servers...probably overkill for 99% of photographers.

I've used dreamhost, bluehost, godaddy and others and was never really very happy. Bluehost and Dreamhost were OK as long as you aren't running too much traffic on your site.

[tim]

I get about 2 million hits per month for my $10 with hostgator, and i'd say at least 50,000 of those hits are php so they require server resources. That's great value :)

[JasonBr]

I use hostdime.com I have had personal and reseller accounts with them for years and can say nothing bad. I've been very pleased. I believe their packages start at $9/month

[ZGMF-X20A]

For 1&1 I got their $10 plans and hosted a lot of sites... 2 are for my parents business, 1 is for a customer (and I also charge him monthly hosting), 1 is for a fellow POTN'er, 1 is for my own blog, and couple smaller ones. I like how they allow me to redirect each domain to a specific folder. For example: I have a folder xyz.com to host xyz.com, xyz.net, xyz.org and have folder called bcdef.com to host bcdef.com.

This way, it's a clear organization on which folder for which domain. Another advantage is I can create each FTP for each folder and each account can update their own. Also they will be chrooted (the FTP topmost level or root is their own folder).

[MJPhotos24]

1&1 for my most recent domain name - have my site hosted (and my other older domain names) on hostdog.net and then also have a photoshelter and exposure manager account all integrated for different reasons.

[ZGMF-X20A]

Mike,

Is your domain name registered with hoatdog? If yes, you could transfer it to 3rd party and point it to 1&1 too. That way you don't have to pay 2 hosting company.

[jacuff]

I've been using Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?271089) for a little over a decade now for about 6 different sites. I'm generally pleased. Their support was good when it was needed, but that hasn't been very often. There are the occasional day every 9 months or so that there is a problem that affects your site/email. Generally it it gets fixed within a few minutes, seldom does it ever stay down for more than an hour.

[eric.brown]

I get about 2 million hits per month for my $10 with hostgator, and i'd say at least 50,000 of those hits are php so they require server resources. That's great value :)

Are you hitting a database (MySQL, etc) with any of your websites? If so I'm impressed with hostgator.

[tim]

Are you hitting a database (MySQL, etc) with any of your websites? If so I'm impressed with hostgator.

Last month I had approximately:
- 180,000 php page hits, each involved between two and four MySQL hits on a custom written website ( my headphone reviews (www.headphonereviews.org) website)
- 170,000 php page hits on my shopping cart, which involved database hits (my wedding photography website (www.wildphotography.co.nz))
- 9000 wordpress hits, with database queries (on my blog (http://www.wildphotography.co.nz/blog) )

Plus 1.1 million hits on static files like images, css, javascript, etc. That only counts my three major websites, I have about 15 more that would add a bit more. That's pretty good performance from HostGator (http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=m96rty-hr) given the $10/month I pay!

[MJPhotos24]

Mike,

Is your domain name registered with hoatdog? If yes, you could transfer it to 3rd party and point it to 1&1 too. That way you don't have to pay 2 hosting company.

all my domains and my hosting is through hostdog, which is owned by a friend of mine. only one of my domains is on 1&1 and I point it to a site under hostdog. Always used hostdog and liked how he does things so stick with it.

[eric.brown]

Last month I had approximately:
- 180,000 php page hits, each involved between two and four MySQL hits on a custom written website ( my headphone reviews (http://www.headphonereviews.org) website)
- 170,000 php page hits on my shopping cart, which involved database hits (my wedding photography website (http://www.wildphotography.co.nz))
- 9000 wordpress hits, with database queries (on my blog (http://www.wildphotography.co.nz/blog) )

Plus 1.1 million hits on static files like images, css, javascript, etc. That only counts my three major websites, I have about 15 more that would add a bit more. That's pretty good performance from HostGator (http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=m96rty-hr) given the $10/month I pay!

Cool...glad Hostgator is working out for you.

[aseainthesky]

I was looking for a place for domain and web-hosting as well, I saw 1&1 on the photography magazine I read. Did some research and I think I might go with justhost.com for its cheap price for all the goodies. Anyone use justhost?

[martinsjc]

I use yahoo and have been using it for years I really like it