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Anyone Know a Good, Reasonably Cheap Webhost That ISN’T GoDaddy?
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Aberdeen, UK
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I’ve had it with GoDaddy. They’re cheap, but they’re also providers of extremely crap service — confusing control panels, sleazy domain-parking, and their hosting is disgracefully slow. I’m looking to move somewhere when my contract comes up for renewal in a couple months, and I need some suggestions. I’m still looking for something that won’t bust the bank, and I need a couple of MySQL databases for a few Wordpresses and PHP for the same, and that’s about it.
Any suggestions?
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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I use 1 and 1. Not too expensive at all, and I have yet to have a problem with either their business or their service over about 2 years of hosting. I got my domains through them too, which may involve a modest discount for me.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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That would also rule out Dreamhost if you don't want slow and cheap. Bluehost is highly rated, but I found their service slow too.
I'd go for a service that doesn't seem to build their business model around extremely high volumes for Walmart type prices. Maybe a company like MediaTemple, or even your own VPS with Linode/Slicehost ir you don't mind setting up your own server?
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Baltimore
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I've used Hostignition. They were pretty cheap and had several PHP app choices.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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The short answer is: NO.
It's either cheap, or fast and reliable.
It's seems especially hard to find a good compromise.
-t
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Baninated
Join Date: Jun 2009
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Originally Posted by turtle777
The short answer is: NO.
It's either cheap, or fast and reliable.
-t
Pick any 2?
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Originally Posted by downinflames68
Pick any 2?
That's generally how it works. "Cheap" isn't an issue for me, though "affordable" is. I have not had any speed problems with 1 and 1, but I don't really challenge it much; my domain is not much more than a placeholder at the moment.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Pacific Northwest
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Originally Posted by downinflames68
Pick any 2?
Just like women: sexy, single, sane.
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Baninated
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Wow. I've never heard of that. True though.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Tampa, Florida
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DynDNS and your PC at home?
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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"The road to success is dotted with the most tempting parking spaces."
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally Posted by The Godfather
DynDNS and your PC at home?
If you don't need fast upload speeds, sure...
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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I have been using Lunarpages for the last couple years. Works well enough.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The deep backwoods of the PNW
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How about a VPS? You'll learn a little, it's cheap, and you have way more control over what you're allowed to do. My Linode is only $20 a month and is practically maintenance-free since all I run is a Wordpress site and some file shares on it.
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Sell or send me your vintage Mac things if you don't want them.
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Detroit
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Affordable Web Hosting at Lunarpages
been very happy with them for over, over 6 years now i think. might be closer to 8. i've hosted many personal and business sites with them. never a problem.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Nobletucky
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: BFE
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Our club uses X7 Hosting and pays $120 a year for 60GB of space. We're low bandwidth, though.
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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I can't even name a good Web host that is GoDaddy.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally Posted by shifuimam
How about a VPS? You'll learn a little, it's cheap, and you have way more control over what you're allowed to do. My Linode is only $20 a month and is practically maintenance-free since all I run is a Wordpress site and some file shares on it.
Examples of features you can enable that may be difficult or impossible with other hosts:
- phpMyAdmin relational database features
- PHP APC cache
- mod_php vs. PHP as a CGI
- PHP config (in the case of mod_php hosts)
- SSH
- Netatalk (AFP for non-Mac machines)
- A VPN (useful for using your machine as a proxy, establishing VLANs, or using Samba)
- PostgreSQL
etc.
Lots of good reasons to use a VPS.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Aberdeen, UK
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Originally Posted by The Godfather
DynDNS and your PC at home?
Really not an option, sadly. My broadband connection is so abysmally slow that I couldn’t even contemplate it. Also…
Originally Posted by shifuimam
How about a VPS? You'll learn a little, it's cheap, and you have way more control over what you're allowed to do. My Linode is only $20 a month and is practically maintenance-free since all I run is a Wordpress site and some file shares on it.
…I’m going for simple and easy just now. I don’t really have the time to spend learning a bunch of stuff just now, but it’s something I might seriously consider in the future.
In the end, I think I’m gonna go with Media Temple’s Grid-Service Lite. It meets my cheap criteria, and a couple people I spoke to said they’re pretty good. Thanks for the input everyone.
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