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| Website Hosting - A Minefield | | Date Created: 12 Mar, 2006, 02:20 AM |
| After producing a website for the British Superkart Racing Club I was in the situation of having to find a company to host the website. I always seem to think that hosting is very expensive and wanted to find a company that would host the website (with enough room to grow) for a reasonable amount. |
I did a google search (probably the first thing I always do...) and came up with hundreds of sites offering hosting, offering reviews of hosting companies and providing customer feedback of the various hosting companies around.
It was excellent to have so much information, but after getting excited about a couple of options it turned out that they had quite a few negative reviews from customers and often were lacking in some way. |
I host the www.cryt.net domain with a company called UCVHost.net who offer ridiculously cheap hosting, which for my current needs (personal only mainly email) is sufficient, but reliability and high capacity hosting were in question.
.Mac that hosts this blog do not provide scripting and db support, nor the space or price that I was looking for. They also are very much targeted towards small sites (personal rather than business), which makes them perfect for me, but not the British Superkart RC.
Eventually though I stumbled across a company called Bluehost, who were rated very highly by a lot of websites and there were very few customer complaints or negative feedback floating around. Their packages also seemed extremely good value. |
For $7 a month they offer:
- 10Gb Disk Space
- 6 Domain Hosting on 1 Account
- 250Gb/Month Transfer
- PHP, Mysql, SSH, FTP etc...
- Plus a free .com domain for the life of the account.
Which seemed like a ridiculously good offer. So I decided to try Bluehost.
So far (about 2 weeks in) everything has been fantastic. Setup was error free, the control panel really easy to use and support fast and efficient where required.
I will update this when the year is up to see if they have maintained my faith.
http://www.bluehost.com |
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