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Old Jan 7, 2006, 09:07 PM   #1
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Web Host Suggestions...

I'm tired of Earthlink.

Entertain me.

Ideally I would like to transfer 3 domains.

Basic sites - not a ton of bandwidth or hosting space needed.

2GB/40GB would work well.

Good service, easy to use control panel etc.

Thanks.
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Old Jan 7, 2006, 09:23 PM   #2
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From searching around this forum these are some hosting sites I found:

http://www.o-wh.com/
http://www.dreamhost.com/
http://www.asmallorange.com/
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Old Jan 7, 2006, 09:31 PM   #3
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Hrmm - did a search with no success.

Many thanks for looking for those and posting them. Ay experience with them?
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Old Jan 7, 2006, 09:35 PM   #4
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No experience myself, I am in the same position as you right now: trying to find myself a host.
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Old Jan 7, 2006, 09:48 PM   #5
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http://hasweb.com

They have wonderful hosting.
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Old Jan 7, 2006, 09:54 PM   #6
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I've used Neureal.com for 4 years and am very happy with the service. You can host multiple domain names and sites on one account.
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Old Jan 7, 2006, 09:57 PM   #7
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Gary,

I have used Aplus.net and Dreamhost. I received reliable service with them both, but stuck with Dreamhost due to its pricing and the easy-to-use control panel. I recommend either one of them.

Another host that's frequently cited on here is A Small Orange.

Note, if you go with Dreamhost, current customers (including myself) can refer you via a coupon and give you a significant discount on whatever plan you sign up with. The way this works is you basically share the refferal reward with the current customer.

Another option - I'm a Dreamhost reseller, which means I can resell a portion of my account to you. We'd negotiate the pricing in private if you were interested.
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Old Jan 7, 2006, 11:06 PM   #8
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Hostway is very good. I use them for my own personal site and for two artists' sites that I've created. Awesome uptime, great customer service, a huge variety of service plans, and a really good control panel for everything.
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Old Jan 8, 2006, 04:05 AM   #9
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i use hostfor2bucks ... not too great when it comes to the details, but it is dirt cheap..
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Old Jan 8, 2006, 04:12 AM   #10
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I have 2 sites hosted on iPowerWeb. They automatically upgraded my $8/month account to unlimited disk space and 40GB transfer a month. It's great for me because I have about 800 MB of h.264 videos on it, and I plan to be uploading at least another 2 GB in the next few hours.
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Old Jan 8, 2006, 06:31 AM   #11
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i'm a non-profit web host, so i have a lot of experience referring people to paid services and know most of the hosts listed here well. Some very good reliable hosts have been mentioned, but dreamhost is not among them. Dreamhost is a VERY poor hosting choice, and people do not stay with them long. While their prices might seem pretty alluring, keep in mind the old adage that "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is."

Just so this post isn't entirely negative I should mention that asmallorange has one of the best reputations in the market, and it is well deserved.
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I was with ASmallOrange and can't recommend them highly enough. But I moved to DreamHost as the offers were just too good to turn down.

I have to say I've experienced no problems with them and wouldn't hesitate in recommending them. True the support can take awhile to get back to you but no longer than 24 hours the few times I've had to contact them.

And the bandwidth + disk space is unbelievable. I was dubious as well (and still am to a certain extent) but they seem to have delivered so far. My site has been getting hit hard recently, over 10GB of bandwidth used a day, and it's still holding up strong.

Feel free to contact me if you want a discount voucher.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AmbitiousLemon
i'm a non-profit web host, so i have a lot of experience referring people to paid services and know most of the hosts listed here well. Some very good reliable hosts have been mentioned, but dreamhost is not among them. Dreamhost is a VERY poor hosting choice, and people do not stay with them long. While their prices might seem pretty alluring, keep in mind the old adage that "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is."

Just so this post isn't entirely negative I should mention that asmallorange has one of the best reputations in the market, and it is well deserved.
I doubt Mike Davidson and Dan Cederholm (among others) would be with dreamhost still if they were a poor choice. I've yet to have any issues with them. I'm not saying dreamhost is the best host. I've only been with a few. But there's always going to be complaints about every host because no host can be 100% without issues.
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Old Jan 8, 2006, 10:20 AM   #14
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I just signed up with DreamHost - what a "dream" compared to Earthlink - with Earthlink I was spending 40 a month on two domains with no MySQL or any backend support of any kind.

Earthlink's control panel sucks.

This is awesome - thanks, folks.

I now have plenty of space and bandwidth for all of my sites at a quarter the cost.
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