Low cost but reliable light duty web host?

[etherealfocus]

I run a side business building and webmastering local small business websites. Been using 000webhost.com for years now but uptime has become a serious problem recently. I never even bothered buying their paid hosting because the free hosting worked fine, 99%+ uptime consistently. Within the past month it's dropped to more like 80-90% uptime.

I'm totally fine with the $5/mo for their paid hosting, but don't wanna waste money if it's not gonna fix my problems. They claim it will... but I'd rather second some second opinions. Stick with 000 or is there a significantly better cheap but reliable option? I'm mostly just hosting simple hand-coded XHTML sites, don't need anything but the basics.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Almost anything is better than 000 (both mathematically and in real-world web-hosting) and $5 a month buys far more than you need. Check out MadGenius, run by an ATOT-er and packages start at $4 a month.

http://www.madgenius.com/web-hosting.php

 

[edro]

Namecheap

 

[RossMAN]

http://www.cookiehost.com/ccc.php isn't the best but it's cheap.

http://www.madgenius.com/web-hosting.php offers coupons for AT members.

If you can afford $6/mo, I have a better recommendation from a reputable web host.

 

[Twista]

http://www.cookiehost.com/ccc.php isn't the best but it's cheap.

http://www.madgenius.com/web-hosting.php offers coupons for AT members.

If you can afford $6/mo, I have a better recommendation from a reputable web host.

Rossman was the host expert guy years back. Good to see hes still around..

Love this guy.

 

[Mixolydian]

I use Site5 (http://www.site5.com/) and have had very good experience

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Always http://www.madgenius.com/web-hosting.php

 

[olds]

Rossman was the host expert guy years back. Good to see hes still around..

Love this guy.

Still is the hosting guru. Over the years, he's helped me out immensely. :wub:

 

[zCypher]

Go with madgenius of course, but if not check out hostgator. used them for a while, cheap and worked fine ($3).

 

[Chaotic42]

I use Site5 (http://www.site5.com/) and have had very good experience

Same

 

[Twista]

Still is the hosting guru. Over the years, he's helped me out immensely. :wub:

Yep, hes helped me out greatly also. Glad to see him back ()

 

[olds]

Yep, hes helped me out greatly also. Glad to see him back ()

Oh man. Now he's likely to bail again.

 

[etherealfocus]

Rossman - $6 is fine - show me the business case and if the ROI is good I'll take it.

I'm leaning toward madgenius; always nice to do business with another ATer. I'm really not sweating a buck or two a month, but of course no point in buying stuff I'll never use.

So just to make it easy - Rossman, if you can offer a few bucks a month worth of benefits over madgenius, I'm yours.

 

[brianmanahan]

http://prgmr.com/xen/

gives you your own vm to do whatever you want to with it for low monies

 

[etherealfocus]

prmgr looks cool, but perhaps a bit more complexity than I need. Nothing from Ross yet so I'm rolling with MadGenius. Thanks guys!

 

[ViviTheMage]

Almost anything is better than 000 (both mathematically and in real-world web-hosting) and $5 a month buys far more than you need. Check out MadGenius, run by an ATOT-er and packages start at $4 a month.

http://www.madgenius.com/web-hosting.php

Thanks for the reference gag

 

[RossMAN]

prmgr looks cool, but perhaps a bit more complexity than I need. Nothing from Ross yet so I'm rolling with MadGenius. Thanks guys!

MG will treat you well, make sure to use the 30% off coupon!

 

[MarkXIX]

I prefer Cirtex Hosting. I pay $2.50/mo. and I have been happy with it.

 

[Farang]

I would not recommend MadGenius. It's a one-man show, awful.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I would not recommend MadGenius. It's a one-man show, awful.

Well, there's actually two of us ... but you are right, there isn't a bunch of us like you would see at the big hosts...some people like that though. You'll always talk to me or Jon

 

[etherealfocus]

Have to say, I'm happy with MadGenius so far. Forgot to enter the coupon code, but I already bugged support with a couple dumb questions that turned out to be entirely me brainfarting in both cases, so I'll just call it even at that.

I'm sure I'll make far more than my lost 30% on the referral program anyway lol

 

[ViviTheMage]

PM me your name you registered with, i'll add the discount to your account and credit you the difference for your first invoice.

 

[Elixer]

What about a medium duty server ?
Is there a good cheap hosting company that provides root access for a open source project ? They run the usual stuff, forums, bug tracker, and custom web applications for the project.
Server needs to have at least 8GB RAM, quad core, and at least 200GB HD.
I believe the current provider they use charges $65/month for above specs) but that is too much for them to maintain, and their donation drive for the past year hasn't generated much to help offset the costs.
Oh, they are based in Europe, but I don't think it makes a difference where the server is.

 

[ViviTheMage]

You could see if a company would sponsor them? What's the project?

 

[RossMAN]

What about a medium duty server ?
Is there a good cheap hosting company that provides root access for a open source project ? They run the usual stuff, forums, bug tracker, and custom web applications for the project.
Server needs to have at least 8GB RAM, quad core, and at least 200GB HD.
I believe the current provider they use charges $65/month for above specs) but that is too much for them to maintain, and their donation drive for the past year hasn't generated much to help offset the costs.
Oh, they are based in Europe, but I don't think it makes a difference where the server is.

Unfortunately Europe bandwidth, power and data centers are expensive.

Does it have to be in Europe? Is USA ok?

Would a VPS (Virtual Private Server) be sufficient?