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?
By the way, the more I think about mesopia.com the more I realize that it’s not a good idea to go there because of 98.2% uptime past 5 months. I’d like something that can be up as possible as it can be… 99.9% or something. You know what I’m saying?
So… should we cancel that out of our list?
I checked totalchoicehosting.com/ and it seems to be a good place to start with. Excellent uptime… 99.589% uptime since 1/30/2003… past three months it have been up 100%.
dm7, it sounds very good, for me it doesn’t “feel” good but if it does for you, go ahead
maybe you could check out the www.webhostingtalk.com forums and read around a bit, there you can also ask hosting questions (eg what about the uptime of totalchoicehosting.com)
Yes I know, otherwise I would also just look for one of the many premiumservices that give you everything for $20 and more /month . I just look for a compromise: cheap ($7.95/month) and stable. Ipowerweb and Lunarpages seem to be the only ones around that are cheap and established (with a good reputation). I think they can only do this because you have to pay for some of the extra’s (add-on domains, subdomains, more than 1 or 3 mySQL-db’s…) - that’s not funny but it’s the price you pay for stability. Just invest what you need - how many of the extra’s do you really need. If you really need it and can’t pay additional fees - take the risk you’re willing to take.
Not much to do at work, so I’ll continue the search and report my findings . LOL soon we can start our own site about good and bad hosts .
Did some research on WHT and many people seem to be very positive about this host, especially concerning support: 24hostingnow.com/webhosting.php
This seems to be another cheap + established one besides Ipowerweb and Lunarpages: powweb.com
Didn’t investigate powweb further, just saw it mentioned on WHT as a big one and saw their forum has 9000+ members
saw in their faq:
Umm I did some more exploration… I’m a bit lazy because I haven’t checked them in depth like support system, etc… I’m about to give up on my webhosting search. It’s way too hard. LOL!
Here are two links that I found… I’m not sure if it was established like brainhacker is concerned about… I haven’t checked it out.
24hostingnow has very quick reply, they replied within 15 minutes to my mail.
but they only do weekly backups as well (my question) so that’s a no for me.