Web Host

Woot427

I'm look for some web hosting recommendations. I've had my hands on a dedicated server of my own to mess with until recently, so I'm going from luxury car to ford pinto, but the price is right. The whole unlimited this, unlimited that scenario that seems to be the norm is really making me wary. The last time I had a normal web host, that wasn't the norm and you could actually find some cheaper web hosts that weren't going to be slow as hell because they didn't load up their servers to and past the brim.

Looking for PHP support and at least a few MySQL databases.

tl;dr: I am looking for a decently priced web host that is not a piece of crap.

DeathPrawn

It is very likely not what you're looking for, but whenever one of these threads comes up I invariably recommend www.nearlyfreespeech.net. The basic concept is that you pay for what you use. $0.01/day for MySQL access, and beyond that they charge you something like $0.01/megabyte-month storage and $0.01/GB bandwidth (or thereabouts). I can't say I've tested out how well-equipped their servers are to handle a huge load, but they've been great for some of my lower-traffic sites, both in terms of reliability/speed and cost - one of my clients' sites (all static pages, very few visitors) cost me less than $5 in hosting last year.

flatlinegraphics

DeathPrawn wrote: »

It is very likely not what you're looking for, but whenever one of these threads comes up I invariably recommend www.nearlyfreespeech.net. The basic concept is that you pay for what you use. $0.01/day for MySQL access, and beyond that they charge you something like $0.01/megabyte-month storage and $0.01/GB bandwidth (or thereabouts). I can't say I've tested out how well-equipped their servers are to handle a huge load, but they've been great for some of my lower-traffic sites, both in terms of reliability/speed and cost - one of my clients' sites (all static pages, very few visitors) cost me less than $5 in hosting last year.

only problem is that if you get farked/slasdotted/dugg/reddited you will get hosed. sure the site will stay up, but..... (i know the likelyhood of that may be small, but a sudden spike can kill you)

the usual answers are godaddy, dreamhost, and asmallorage. i am with asmallorange, $25/year. site went down once, when i was doing some really heavy dev on it (concurrent ftp and refreshes on several browsers) but for less than 5 minutes.

Woot427

flatlinegraphics wrote: »

DeathPrawn wrote: »

It is very likely not what you're looking for, but whenever one of these threads comes up I invariably recommend www.nearlyfreespeech.net. The basic concept is that you pay for what you use. $0.01/day for MySQL access, and beyond that they charge you something like $0.01/megabyte-month storage and $0.01/GB bandwidth (or thereabouts). I can't say I've tested out how well-equipped their servers are to handle a huge load, but they've been great for some of my lower-traffic sites, both in terms of reliability/speed and cost - one of my clients' sites (all static pages, very few visitors) cost me less than $5 in hosting last year.

only problem is that if you get farked/slasdotted/dugg/reddited you will get hosed. sure the site will stay up, but..... (i know the likelyhood of that may be small, but a sudden spike can kill you)

the usual answers are godaddy, dreamhost, and asmallorage. i am with asmallorange, $25/year. site went down once, when i was doing some really heavy dev on it (concurrent ftp and refreshes on several browsers) but for less than 5 minutes.

It's not going to be hosting anything mission sensitive. Script demos, school stuff, etc, so NFS is perfect. Thanks DeathPrawn!