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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 10-05-2003, 11:04 PM:

What are some good places to host your website at? I'm currently looking at yahoo's plans, they have a business plan for about $13 to $20 a month. The website I'm planning is for small business purposes, and I don't intend to get too much traffic (Id eventually like alot of course). Trouble is that its' only 50mb of space you get but that may be enough for a while I think. We're not planning on anything flashy, just a basic website to sell a dvd I have in planning, as well as to promote a possible wedding videography business venture.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-05-2003, 11:09 PM:

That doesn't sound too bad, I suppose. 50MB should be enough for such a small site. I don't know how dependable Yahoo is. I usually just use my own computer to host my site, but not everyone can do that.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 10-05-2003, 11:29 PM:

You can't beat Tera-Byte Dot Com's hosting or their reliability.

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 10-05-2003, 11:30 PM:

I'm using boxnix.com for my site. 250MB disk space and 6.5GB bandwidth for $14 per month. Up to 250 mailboxes. If you sign up for a year, you get 15 percent off that. They have cheaper and more expensive plans. I'm using their "plan two". Here is their plan page: HERE.

Posted by Scott Jentsch (Member # 1681) on 10-06-2003, 02:25 PM:

I've had very good luck with ProNIC Solutions, with about 7 or 8 small-to-medium sites being served through them right now. I'll be moving BigScreen over there as soon as I have the time to do so.

I like the packages they offer, especially for the price. Much more competitive than I've run into in the past, and their support is very good (albeit E-Mail only, but responses are usually < 1 hour).

They're currently the only web hosting provider that I recommend to clients:

http://www.svjdesigns.com/webhost/

There were some others on that page, but have been removed due to reliability or support issues. I'm hoping to add more as time goes on.

Posted by Nicholas Roznovsky (Member # 861) on 10-06-2003, 02:44 PM:

I've had a very good experience with Avid Hosting since I started using them a few years ago. Right now I'm paying $20/month for 300 MB of space, 10 GB of transfer bandwith, 500 e-mail accounts, 5 mailing list accounts. I've never had an interruption in service and their customer service people usually get back to me within half an hour when I have question.

I've got the medium-sized plan, but they have everything from the tiny to the criminally-large in terms of packages.

Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 10-06-2003, 02:49 PM:

I use www.bizland.com, and have been very satisfied with their service. Not sure about the rate, but I know it's not much.

Posted by Martin Brooks (Member # 1269) on 10-06-2003, 10:30 PM:

I use doteasy.com for some sites. If it's a new URL and you pay them for the URL annual fee (around $18), the site itself is free! And that includes tools like counters, a really basic postings board, 7 email accounts, etc. I think that gives you 20MB of space and 1GB of traffic per month. You can get more as well as e-commerce, more advanced BBS (like this one) and other services for about another $7 per month.

The only problem I have with them is that I have a few specialty sites that don't get much traffic, but I get tons of SPAM mail to the email addresses that I use on the sites. I don't know whether Doteasy is selling lists of email addresses used on their sites or whether they're being obtained in another way, but if DotEasy was doing this, I would be pissed.