I need to get a site up in a few days, just need a recommendation for a good host for a good price. Won't be needing too much bandwidth. Who have you had good experiences with?
Good host for a n00b?
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great space and monthly bandwidth. I think i got 500mb and 3gb bandwidth or something like that. for free! gotta love it
great space and monthly bandwidth. I think i got 500mb and 3gb bandwidth or something like that. for free! gotta love it
I don't know if I want to muck around in the forums or have an ad.Originally posted by: mdchesne
trap17.net
great space and monthly bandwidth. I think i got 500mb and 3gb bandwidth or something like that. for free! gotta love it
What about this beginner package from 1&1?
RossMAN
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if you don't want ads, you can pay for a site hosted by them. but seeing as you said you were a noob, I thought having your own paysite wouldn't be worth it if you can't handle the code and maintence, thus the free option
Try Brinkster.com
They have very good service.
Cnet says their tech support really makes them shine.
They have very good service.
Cnet says their tech support really makes them shine.
I dunno.Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
How much do you need?
I have no idea what different amounts of visitors incur, I know nothing about this.So what do you guys think the bandwidth could be for:
a) a Geocities site with 50 visitors/day
b) a more professional site with 300 visitors/day
c) rather large site with a few thousand visitors/day
d) a mega-site with tens of thousands of visitors/day
Just to get some numbers out there...
And NOTHING seems to beat the Bronze Canaca package that Crono suggested, 10 GB storage, 200 GB transfer for $3.95/month. What deal is better than that?
a) a Geocities site with 50 visitors/day
b) a more professional site with 300 visitors/day
c) rather large site with a few thousand visitors/day
d) a mega-site with tens of thousands of visitors/day
Just to get some numbers out there...
And NOTHING seems to beat the Bronze Canaca package that Crono suggested, 10 GB storage, 200 GB transfer for $3.95/month. What deal is better than that?
AgaBoogaBoo
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a) 1-1.5gb
b) 3-10gb depending on content
c) 10-15gb
d) 20gb++
These numbers are very, very, very rought estimates. It really depends on the size of the site and the content, a text only geocities page could use 50mb a month if it's a simple 1 page text only site.
Go and search Cancana on webhostingtalk.com before deciding to go with them.
Thanks for mentioning that, turned up lots of negatives. And from your rough numbers we'd probably need no more than 10 GB a month anyway, even a ways down the road.
Seems the only one they like over at webshostingtalk of the ones mentioned in this thread is Brinkster.
some ppl might have specific windows apps that need to be run. and my vote goes to hostpc 2 for 1.
or the freebie posted above if if will suffice for your needs
Truthfully, that's hard to imagine. Your gap from 300 visitors to 1000 is a significant jump, and I'd say my numbers were on the high side. How about I start you off with 10gb for free for 6 months, and we see how it lasts? Transferring a cPanel backup to another host is very simple, or you could just decide to purchase a plan.
Yes, of course, we'd probably only need a few gigs a month at most any time soon. I will show the person in charge your offer along with some others, thanks.
And of course more suggestions would be appreciated.
Another question, if you can get 100 to 200 GB of bandwidth a month for $20-40, how come some people need to pay hundreds a month for their hosting? What do they need that those cheap packages don't fulfill?
Bandwidth is not the only limit. If you are serving images or files, then yes those plans will work fine. However if you are serving pages run off a database backend (such as a forum), you are escentially using up a ton of bandwidth with text files. That translates into a huge amount of visitors, and the concern becomes not the bandwidth that is necessary, but the amount of processing power that it would take to send out those pages. A shared hosting account will split the processing between many people. If you plan on running up 200gb of bandwidth with a normal site, not serving file downloads, you might be asked by your provider to switch to a dedicated server as you'd be affecting the performance that the other clients are receiving generating all of those pages.
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