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Geek Culture / Web Hosting Shopping - Is hostmonster.com Any Good?

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Bad Monkey
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 05:11
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So i've been shopping around for a hosting company. Hostmonster.com seems to be the best. Commerce, blogs, forums, statistics, etc, and most important: cheap.

Is this site any good? (only users need answer)

Do you use a better site? Which one?

thanks
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Frozen Flame
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 05:17
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i recommend http://www.vaulthosting.net because its always up, hosts a number of people here, and best of all, im the owner!

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Dr Schnitzengruber
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 05:23
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I recommend getting your own webserver and avoid paying anything, and be able to have full control of your site.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 05:42 Edited at: 9th Oct 2007 05:45
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That's a terrible idea! You should get regular hosting and move up from there.

I recommend spidahost, who was my previous host, I go through godaddy now for their virtual dedicated hosting. I wouldn't recommend godaddy for regular website hosting.

http://www.spidahost.com/

Oh, and be careful with hostmonster, lots of reports of it sucking. Do a google search for "Hostmonster sucks"


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Dr Schnitzengruber
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 05:49
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Quote: "That's a terrible idea"


I want to see you with free web hosting that supports php and can be turned on and off when you want. Can you edit a webpage and have it at your site as soon as you save it? I know I can. Can you store information according to your disk size? I wonder if your website would run when if there is a problem with your web hosts server.

and..
and...

yes, it's a terrible idea, but i don't want to spend money for my "site" so i'll just have it free for now.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 05:55 Edited at: 9th Oct 2007 05:55
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It is a terrible idea, what if there's thunderstorm and your power goes out?

What if you get digged?

What if you get hacked because you don't know how to configure your server for security?

What if your harddrive fails (most, if not all hosts have raid setups and take their own backups, and some even have redundent servers so if one fails your site keeps going).

What if your server gets lots of traffic and your ISP flags you (you'll likely lose your internet altogether).

I could go on and on. It's not worth it for a couple buck a month for a proper host.

And spidahost will work with you, I've had a few off the wall requests that they were willing to let me do. (SSH for instance).


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Jeku
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 06:25
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I've been with Dreamhost for nearly two years and love it. I have about 15 domain names and virtually unlimited bandwidth.

Check them out here http://www.dreamhost.com

If you decide to sign up with them, enter this promo code: JEKUL3

With that you'll get between $50-$100 off your bill. Not too shabby

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dab
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 06:51 Edited at: 9th Oct 2007 06:51
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Dang Jeku, you beat me to it!
Edit: But yea, I have 4.29 TB of bandwidth and like 400gig of space... I think. It increase every week.
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Jess T
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 10:38
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I recommend spidahost.com also

He's very quick with responses to queries, and always willing to help with strange requests - I couldn't get at the CP from behind my Uni's Proxy, so he installed a script specific for me to access it - Nice.

Oh, and it's cheap.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 15:15 Edited at: 9th Oct 2007 15:51
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I use 1and1 (the worlds biggest?) and cheaper than Spider but it feks me off no end that the .com host based in the USA is cheaper with more bandwidth than the .co.uk UK based hosting and it's like a cartel they force you to use the expensive one. That's got to be against anti competition rules surely?

GoDaddy is it's main rival (worlds biggest 2006?) but i find their site interface confusing to use. They will lose a lot of custom because of that, Doh!

Another good reason for not self hosting is that it frees you up to move ISP whenever you like without the hassel of you site being unavailable.

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Jonny_S
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 21:20
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I've used spidahost in the past, I have to agree with what has been said above very fast response times and he'll always try and help you out.
Saying that if your willing to shell out a bit more, dreamhost doesn't seem too shabby either.

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Robin
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 22:01
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I'm with:
http://www.servage.net
360GB Storage
3.6TB Transfer
£4.50/month + a free domain

And you can use my coupon code:
CUST19643
to get 25GB extra storage



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PowerSoft
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Posted: 5th Nov 2007 19:31
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Robin, how good are SERVAGE?

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 5th Nov 2007 20:10
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www.aplus.net's Solo XR Package, which hosts my website:
* CNet Editor's Choice (and a slew of other awards)
* Two free domains for a year
* $495 free software
* Three free MySQL Databases
* Unlimited Subdomains

And the best customer service I've ever seen... 24/7/365 via telephone, live IM chat, or email. They can answer the simplest questions or the most complicated ones, and their reps speak English . And you get a free month for every friend who registers, so email me if you go with them lol.


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dab
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Posted: 5th Nov 2007 21:08
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http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html
You get everything you can dream of.
500gb starting space, which increases 2gb each week!
5tb of bandwidth, which increas 40gb each week!
You get unlimited MYSQL databases, email accounts, ftp accounts, unlimited domains to host (not free registered domains, but you can host them free).

And, you'll get an extra free domain, if you use the code
TBMAIN01
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Jeku
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Posted: 5th Nov 2007 21:44
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@Matt - That package looks nice, aside from the $1.99/month extra you must pay, per domain name. I have over 13 domain names so that would cost way too much. I still prefer Dreamhost's package as it allows for unlimited domain name pointing.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 6th Nov 2007 02:45
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Yeah, it's a good service but there are some drawbacks. The domain issue is a definite one for me (would be awesome to have an individual domain for all of our games and not just subdomains). And three free MySQL databases is alright, but other companies offer way more than that for free (The Samurai was telling me via YIM yesterday how he gets something like 15 with godaddy). But all in all I'm pretty happy with them. And I'm a web designing noob with no knowledge of HTML or PHP, and I hate using FTP for stuff unless I absolutely have to, so their file managing system is a definite plus (and faster than FTP in terms of having to load apps and all that). Pretty cool all around.


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gamebird
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Quote: "And I'm a web designing noob with no knowledge of HTML or PHP, and I hate using FTP for stuff unless I absolutely have to"


Use filezilla, its awesome at ftp and its free. Also go to w3schools.com to learn html. (and other stuff)
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Matt Rock
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Posted: 6th Nov 2007 13:01
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eh, our website is already getting a complete overhaul from the ground up, and it's being designed so I can edit it as easily as possible. I'll learn HTML and PHP someday in the near future. I have a book on PHP sitting around, still in the plastic wrapper even. I just need to open it, lol.


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