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chiwawa626

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When it comes to webhosting how much bandwidth per month is enough? I mite make a small site of a bunch of pics of friends/family and all our friends will go there look at it, post comments, and just a thing to keep in contact thru when we goto college...any idea on howmuch bandwidth one needs? Im guessing five gigabytes should be good enough? Also anyone know a good webhost that is cheap meaning under like 30 bux a year that provides atleast 200mb disk space?
 
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LordThing

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I am with Ripplehost. It's $5/year and you get 100 megs of space plus 1gig/month transfer. It's a personal webiste with some photo galleries and a few files. I even share my bandwidth with the GF and her site. We maybe do 200-300 megs of transfer a month. I doubt, unless you have alot of large files or they are surfed with alot of hits, you will ever go a gig worth of transfer a month with a site like that.

Maybe check them out. If you want to see the speed of the host, check out my link to my site in my Sig.
 
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conjur

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AddAction.net

Check out The Plan. Only $6.95/mo. but the 1st 6 mos. are free.

I have had a domain on ripplehost for a few months and have already had two outages. AddAction is much more stable and support is very quick.
 
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Placer14

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honestly...with that traffic, you'll never hit 1Gb of traffic for the month. Think of it this way. Each hit ont he site will generally an average of 7kb of traffic. Multiply that by the avg number of hits and then multiply again by 25% and that should give you a decent amount of cushion for a low content site like yours.

hoenstly, with all the over inflated packlages and uberlow prices in the webhsoting market, I'm not surprised to see you saying you'd need about 5 Gb of bandwidth. You don't need much but with compeition like it is, you wouldn't pay much for 5Gb if you wanted it.
 
RossMAN

RossMAN

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For $29.95/yr SolidInternet.com offers:

250MB webspace
5GB bandwidth

Email Features
POP3 Accounts Unlimited
SMTP server Yes
Email Aliases Unlimited
E-mail autoresponders Unlimited
E-mail forwarding Unlimited
Catch-all Default Account Yes
Imap Support Yes

Upgrades
Additional MySQL DB's $5/yr
Data Transfer (Monthly) $3.50GB
Package Upgrades Starter - Standard

Other Features
Sub-domains Unlimited
Ftp Accounts Unlimited
Multiple Domains 0
Redhat Interchange No
Anonymous FTP Yes
MySQL Database(s) 2
Shared SSL No
Password Protect Yes
PHP 4.2.2 Yes
Perl 5.6.1 (CGI-BIN) No
Telnet (SSH) No
Frontpage Extensions Yes
PhpMyadmin Yes
Daily Backups No
99.8% Uptime Yes
Cpanel Control Panel Yes
Tech Support Via Forums Yes
Spam Assassin Yes
Web Traffic Stats Yes
File Manager Yes
Backup/Restore Option Yes

I would also consider e-rice.net's $19.99/yr plan

Standard Plan - Ensim Pro
250M Disk Space
5G/mo Data Transfer
3 MySQL Databases
25 Email/User/Subdomains

No Setup Fee
7 Day Free Trial
Ensim Control Panel
PHP 4.2.x
Server Side Includes
Full FTP Access
Web-based File Manager
Subdomains
MySQL 3.23.x
PhpMyAdmin
POP3 & SMTP Server
Auto-Responder/Email Forward
Squirrelmail Webmail
Catch-all Mailbox
Backup & Restore Function
Password-protected Directory
Web Traffic Statistics
FrontPage Server Extensions

Neither of these have the official RossMAN Seal of Approval but I would go with SolidInternet.com as long as you're ok with no CGI support.
 
RossMAN

RossMAN

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Originally posted by: conjur
AddAction.net

Check out The Plan. Only $6.95/mo. but the 1st 6 mos. are free.

I have had a domain on ripplehost for a few months and have already had two outages. AddAction is much more stable and support is very quick.
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Of course I would have recommended AddAction.net especially with their first 6 months FREE offer ... however chiwawa626 is looking for web hosting under $30/yr which AddAction.net doesn't meet that criteria.
 
GhettoFob

GhettoFob

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Originally posted by: LordThing
I am with Ripplehost. It's $5/year and you get 100 megs of space plus 1gig/month transfer. It's a personal webiste with some photo galleries and a few files. I even share my bandwidth with the GF and her site. We maybe do 200-300 megs of transfer a month. I doubt, unless you have alot of large files or they are surfed with alot of hits, you will ever go a gig worth of transfer a month with a site like that.

Maybe check them out. If you want to see the speed of the host, check out my link to my site in my Sig.
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Is RippleHost still $5 a year? I see $9.99.
 
RossMAN

RossMAN

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Originally posted by: GhettoFob
Originally posted by: LordThing
I am with Ripplehost. It's $5/year and you get 100 megs of space plus 1gig/month transfer. It's a personal webiste with some photo galleries and a few files. I even share my bandwidth with the GF and her site. We maybe do 200-300 megs of transfer a month. I doubt, unless you have alot of large files or they are surfed with alot of hits, you will ever go a gig worth of transfer a month with a site like that.

Maybe check them out. If you want to see the speed of the host, check out my link to my site in my Sig.
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Is RippleHost still $5 a year? I see $9.99.
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From what I have heard, they finally raised prices back up to $9.99/yr about a month ago.

So nope it's no longer $4.99/yr unless someone tries to sign up and tells me otherwise.
 
zCypher

zCypher

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Aug 18, 2002
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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: GhettoFob
Originally posted by: LordThing
I am with Ripplehost. It's $5/year and you get 100 megs of space plus 1gig/month transfer. It's a personal webiste with some photo galleries and a few files. I even share my bandwidth with the GF and her site. We maybe do 200-300 megs of transfer a month. I doubt, unless you have alot of large files or they are surfed with alot of hits, you will ever go a gig worth of transfer a month with a site like that.

Maybe check them out. If you want to see the speed of the host, check out my link to my site in my Sig.
Click to expand...

Is RippleHost still $5 a year? I see $9.99.
Click to expand...

From what I have heard, they finally raised prices back up to $9.99/yr about a month ago.

So nope it's no longer $4.99/yr unless someone tries to sign up and tells me otherwise.
Click to expand...
I can't believe I'm hearing people nitpick about paying $5 or $10 a year for webhosting.

:p
 
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filmmaker

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Originally posted by: Snapster
5GB is more than enough for a small site like that.
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Exactly. Just don't post something that everyone and their brother wants to look at. ;)
 
GhettoFob

GhettoFob

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Originally posted by: zCypher
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: GhettoFob
Originally posted by: LordThing
I am with Ripplehost. It's $5/year and you get 100 megs of space plus 1gig/month transfer. It's a personal webiste with some photo galleries and a few files. I even share my bandwidth with the GF and her site. We maybe do 200-300 megs of transfer a month. I doubt, unless you have alot of large files or they are surfed with alot of hits, you will ever go a gig worth of transfer a month with a site like that.

Maybe check them out. If you want to see the speed of the host, check out my link to my site in my Sig.
Click to expand...

Is RippleHost still $5 a year? I see $9.99.
Click to expand...

From what I have heard, they finally raised prices back up to $9.99/yr about a month ago.

So nope it's no longer $4.99/yr unless someone tries to sign up and tells me otherwise.
Click to expand...
I can't believe I'm hearing people nitpick about paying $5 or $10 a year for webhosting.

:p
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:D I just want to use a domain for email and maybe the host a file or two once in a while. Do you guys recommend e-rice or ripplehost?
 
RossMAN

RossMAN

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Feb 24, 2000
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If you do not need any tech support then go with ripplehost simply because they use cPanel which I prefer over Ensim.

Even though they raised their prices to $9.99/yr for 100MB/1GB/FTP/email/webmail/cPanel it's hard to beat.
 
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conjur

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Jun 7, 2001
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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: conjur
AddAction.net

Check out The Plan. Only $6.95/mo. but the 1st 6 mos. are free.

I have had a domain on ripplehost for a few months and have already had two outages. AddAction is much more stable and support is very quick.
Click to expand...

Of course I would have recommended AddAction.net especially with their first 6 months FREE offer ... however chiwawa626 is looking for web hosting under $30/yr which AddAction.net doesn't meet that criteria.
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Hey...was just tossing out options...guess there's still *some* salesman left in me from my car sales days earlier this year ;)
 
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Mr N8

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Dec 3, 2001
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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: GhettoFob
Originally posted by: LordThing
I am with Ripplehost. It's $5/year and you get 100 megs of space plus 1gig/month transfer. It's a personal webiste with some photo galleries and a few files. I even share my bandwidth with the GF and her site. We maybe do 200-300 megs of transfer a month. I doubt, unless you have alot of large files or they are surfed with alot of hits, you will ever go a gig worth of transfer a month with a site like that.

Maybe check them out. If you want to see the speed of the host, check out my link to my site in my Sig.
Click to expand...

Is RippleHost still $5 a year? I see $9.99.
Click to expand...

From what I have heard, they finally raised prices back up to $9.99/yr about a month ago.

So nope it's no longer $4.99/yr unless someone tries to sign up and tells me otherwise.
Click to expand...


Just signed up another account a couple weeks ago, and it was 9.99/yr. I didn't even pay attention until it came out of my checking that it had gone up. Oh well, for $9.99/yr, I still can't complain.
 
RossMAN

RossMAN

Grand Nagus
Feb 24, 2000
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Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: conjur
AddAction.net

Check out The Plan. Only $6.95/mo. but the 1st 6 mos. are free.

I have had a domain on ripplehost for a few months and have already had two outages. AddAction is much more stable and support is very quick.
Click to expand...

Of course I would have recommended AddAction.net especially with their first 6 months FREE offer ... however chiwawa626 is looking for web hosting under $30/yr which AddAction.net doesn't meet that criteria.
Click to expand...

Hey...was just tossing out options...guess there's still *some* salesman left in me from my car sales days earlier this year ;)
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NP and if you were a real salesman you'd sell him one of these.

You should be ashamed of yourself!

:p
 
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Mr N8

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Dec 3, 2001
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Ripplehost uses CPANEL, and its only $10/year. It seems to compare pretty evenly with Surpass at their "learner" level.
 
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chiwawa626

Lifer
Aug 15, 2000
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Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Ripplehost uses CPANEL, and its only $10/year. It seems to compare pretty evenly with Surpass at their "learner" level.
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The thing I liked about surpass host is they give you that Fantastico package...i know its easy to install yourself, but it just saves a bunch of time.. Also the Learner package gives me 300mb and 5gigs transfer as opposed to 1gig and 100megs
 
RossMAN

RossMAN

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chiwawa626

Lifer
Aug 15, 2000
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Thanks rossman for the links...ill check out that forum as well. Im undecided so far, but i will probably go with one of the ones you recomended.
 
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