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Geek Culture / Interesting Hosting Solution

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The Wilderbeast
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Joined: 14th Nov 2005
Location: UK
Posted: 3rd Mar 2011 19:48 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2011 19:48
First of all a small disclaimer, this is not some cheap way of advertising - I am sharing this because I believe it to be of genuine interest to the people here.

Having a website is usually quite an important thing for a developer, but to get anything that's half-decent that doesn't cost an arm and a leg can be fairly difficult; especially considering most of us don't get paid for what we do!

I have just stumbled upon something called GrowAHost.com, basically it's Pay As You Go scalable hosting based in the UK. Prices are 30p per GB of Disk Space, and 15p per GB of Bandwidth. Considering not very many of us would be getting exceptionally high traffic, that can work out at 65p per month (1 database + 1 domain)!

This is particularly great when you see their data rates (maxes out my 2M/Bit connection), and also the complexity of their systems (fully scalable and redundant). I challenge you to find a host that performs as well as that, has the same features, and is cheaper!

crispex
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Joined: 22nd Jun 2007
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Posted: 4th Mar 2011 02:07
Seems like an "overnight" host to me. This happens all the time with these "incredible deals." I'd be careful.

I just now realized I've had a typo in my signature for the past 3 years.
The Wilderbeast
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Location: UK
Posted: 6th Mar 2011 18:16
It's been going for several years now so fortunately it isn't one of these. It's just a shame that they're so unknown because I think their USP is brilliant. oh well.

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