Recommend me a good web hosting company (somewhat OT)

[gotasnake]

I'm about to help set up a website for a small business. What are some good web hosting companies that you've had good experiences with? Any that I should stay away from?

I need the following (or similar)

Lots of disk space (~500mb or so)
10gb transfer
pop3 email accounts
mySQL
php scripting

Anything on top of that would be fine, but not absolutely necessary.

 

[jacob0401]

Budget?

 

[beatmix01]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1148343&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

see this.... cant beat it.


you only get 5 gig of xfer though with them

@ $0.25 per gb over.

 

[HyTekJosh]

Originally posted by: jacob0401
Budget?

 

[BigKev]

Superb Canadian-based host.

 

[fs5]

globat.com

 

[DeviousTrap]

Suprised Rossman hasent posted here yet.

If you want reliablity:
clook.net
HTTPme

Price/Performance
AddAction
ThrillHost

 

[conjur]

AddAction is good but I guess I just had bad luck with them.

Been on Thrillhost for a few days and they have one-click setup for more applications than does AddAction. AddAction was very responsive to support tickets, though.

fwiw.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: conjur
AddAction is good but I guess I just had bad luck with them.

Been on Thrillhost for a few days and they have one-click setup for more applications than does AddAction. AddAction was very responsive to support tickets, though.

fwiw.

A few people have had bad luck with AddAction but I have had nothing but super smooth sailing with them. Their "backup" strategy (or lack thereof) does concern me though so I'll have to start backing things up on my PC just in case.

ThrillHost is an awesome value.

I would also take a look at dathorn.com who offers 2GB/30GB resellers account for $13.50 very good value. Their servers are located at ThePlanet.com data center. I've been a dathorn customer for 10 months now, check out my uptime.

 

[HyTekJosh]

I think it has become pretty much standard practice for hosts to do backups using a secondary harddrive. I would check for a host that confirms that they do this on at least a weekly basis.

 

[gotasnake]

Thanks for all the suggestions, guys... as far as budget, there are no real budget considerations, since hosting isn't that expensive in the first place.