Umm interesting… webhostxl.com WAS good at replying my questions, but ever since they updated their website… they never replied to my questions for 4 weeks now actually. Not reliable!!! Grrrrrr!
I feel like I am about to give up. lol… tell me what you think of dimehost.com please. I’m not sure if I can trust them with support system… it seems that no web hosting company offer a good support system and it’s my factor that can prevent me from purhasing a web hosting plan from them.
well, i’m reading all kinds of reviews on webhost review sites, i cannot remember why i turned down hostdime, (i’ve been to countless hosting sites already to find the one with the “AHA” feeling, so far nothing yet.
so everyday i’ll click some of them and cross them off my list until i have found the right one.
note: they might be biased since they have advertisers and everything. (even though they say they aren’t). i use them mainly to find host adresses and check them out myself.
also, the shops directory of paypal has a huge list of webhosts which all accept paypal.
If you found anything promising let me know maybe i’ll split this thread sometime since it becomes a webhost discussion
Thanks, I’ll check them out later. Yeah it might be a good idea to split this dicussion up.
I gotta go home (I live at dorm at college right now and it’s weekend… my mom’s wondering where I am ). Thanks for the links… hopefully it’ll be helpful for me to find “AHA” feeling like you do… for some reasons I don’t feel right with hostdime.com even though their support system is excellent.
Please keep me updated. Thanks… and I’ll tell you if I find any other hosting company that might be interesitng. Thanks again, I appreciate it.
I’ll be back here at dorm tomorrow so if you have anything that I need to check asap… I’ll check it out tomorrow… just to let you know. Have fun searching!
Seems to be very hard to get a really good host I see . I am searching for a host myself, experimenting with sites and I really want to get rid of Lycos . Bad news midphase is not as expected, and if I read your experiences all those promising hosts seem to be as bad as Lycos concerning support . And good support is a must since I don’t want to wait for a month again to get a useless response about their non-functioning “ready-to-use” interactive forms like with Lycos .
I will concentrate on finding a really really neutral host-ranking site. If I find something promising will inform you…
It says the bronze package is 4.99 a month ($60 a year) and you get 3 gigs of hardspace and a 25 gig monthly bandwidth. It might not be suitable for you needs pasQuale but just thought I’d make a suggestion.
It looks all great, DM7. I can only think of one possible risk: mesopia is the new name for Terabite Hosting and Terabite only exist since march 2003. So they are starters and it looks they still have to face the big test, i.e. a growing amount of customers asking space, bandwidth and support. The market seems to be extremely competitive and new cheap hosts appear everyday, and it is a know fact that most of them don’t survive their first year. Most of them start with really good intentions but when a lot of people sign up because of the cheap prices they can’t live up to their promises…
I did a huge amount of research this weekend, one eye focused on Tour de France and the other on my computer screen . I visited a lot of host ranking sites and read a lot of reviews, wandered through hosting forums, and this is my conclusion: it’s a jungle! Pure survival of the fittest. So I want to play it as secure as possible and my conditions are not only a cheap and good support but also being established. This means existing for a few years, having a lot of customers and still being popular for their service. For now I only see 2 candidates:
lunarpages.com $7.95/month for 20GB/month and 500MB of space.
Lunarpages exist since 2000, and score high in many reviews. Everybody seems to be euphoric about there support so I guess they’re not bad in this respect. They also have a huge support forum: lunarforums.com/forum/
ipowerweb.com $7.95/month for 30GB/month and 500MB of webspace.
Ipowerweb exists since 1998 and still growing (over 120000 customers). Very serious guys there it seems. Talk about being established! Nr1 in many reviews. BTW no adult allowed there . Didn’t encounter anything negative about their support, so they are not bad I think. My favourite at this time.
Didn’t found another yet which matches my criteria… Hope you know more candidates!
LOL that was a long post but I have not much here to do at work
hmm mesopia is real quick, as soon as you are on their site for more than 10 seconds their sales rep will initiate a chat with you.
i have to check them out better to know. I agree with brainhacker about establishment.
I know ipowerweb and lunarpages. Prob with them they either don’t allow unlimited subdomains (which i want) or multiple domain hosting, or only offer 1 mysql db. And i think i’ll need more with dutch and english forum, and in the future i want to use more phpbased things so 1 db will not be enough.
and i don’t know if 100.000 users is a plus… you get lost in the masses. How many users they put on a server, etc.
plus, they only offer one plan. If ld4all needs more than 20gb data (which it will eventually) i’ll have to move.
I can see what you mean Q. You can get those extra’s (DBs, subdomains etc) only if you pay, I guess this way they try to recuperate some money. Ipowerweb offers 3 mySQL-dbs but you have to add $10 if you want an extra DB or a subdomain… Don’t really need the extra’s, no plans for a forum or subdomains, so I have it easier .
The problem is I don’t trust the small and young competitors who promise they give everything for one insanely low price because companies need profits and when they attract too much people they are overwhelmed. A huge and growing amount of users is the ultimate test for such a host and most of them die in the jungle. So I look for host with a lot of users AND good reputation concerning support, and those I’ve mentioned are the two remaining. Lycos is the example of a big host where you’re just a number and you can wait forever for support. If you find another established one that gives all you want for one price inform us…
Globat: was on my list but this changed my mind: 10-cheapwebhosting.com/hosts … addons.php
especially the search engine submission $99 fee
Ipowerweb submits your site on hunderds of search engines for free and also offers other free site marketing tools, another reason why it’s high on my list.
I also checked Hostrocket, fairly established, but I throwed it from my list but I don’t remember why, probably a bunch of complaining users.
Didn’t check the rest so I will, thanks for the list pasQuale
surpass sounds to good to be true. i wonder what their connection speed is and if they do daily backups as well.
[edit] hmm read through their support forums a bit and they mention system crashes a lot either from ddos attacks or scripts being run from their servers.
Yeah, some are too expensive for me… I’d like stable company too, but… I am cheap… I’m on tight budget, but I want to get a lot out from a cheap price. You know what I’m saying by the way?
maybe i’ll split this thread sometime since it becomes a webhost discussion 
Thanks for the links… hopefully it’ll be helpful for me to find “AHA” feeling like you do… for some reasons I don’t feel right with 
. I am searching for a host myself, experimenting with sites and I really want to get rid of Lycos 
. Bad news midphase is not as expected, and if I read your experiences all those promising hosts seem to be as bad as Lycos concerning support 
. And good support is a must since I don’t want to wait for a month again to get a useless response about their non-functioning “ready-to-use” interactive forms like with Lycos 
.
either from ddos attacks or scripts being run from their servers.
