Looking for Hosting

[tommy]

I want to build a web site that will profile a business that I want to start.

To sum it up I need to have a site that allows me to archive articles (my own and from third parties) as well as services that I will provide.

Pretty simple stuff but I'm thought I would ask if someone could reccomend who I might go to host such a site. If there is anyhting that is offered Free, that's would be great.

[Lil Chris]

Free is always nice, but... There are usually some downfalls with a free host, most that I know of place ads on your site and are usually limited on the overall control you have. If this is for a buisness site spend a little money, media temple offers outstanding hosting for about 20.00 a month. There are plenty of others out there, I've just been real impressed with (MT) and what they have to offer. Check them out...
(mt) Media Temple - Limitlessly scalable web hosting on-demand.

If you decide to go with them, feel free to tell them i sent you. Just enter mungham.com in the referral box

[tobyhede]

There's a couple of threads that have asked similar questions. I use both Hostgator and Dreamhost and prefer the latter.

In terms of software for you site, a CMS may be what you need Joomla is good, although most simple sites can be run on Wordpress, which is really nice ... easy to install, clean interface.

[JTierney]

For what it's worth, being only two posts out of lurking at this point, I'm actually a week away from our little hosting companies first official day of business. We're mostly just working on tweaking the control panel, finishing up the website, and getting the english2legalise all set.

I'm a semi-old hand at the hosting thing, who jumped ship from a larger company after getting frustrated about increasing demand to stop treating the customers like humans instead of numbers. Well, that and increasing weariness with supporting cpanel's release and versioning decisions. Weariness being a euphemism for pulling out my hair whenever a 'stable' update came down the tubes.

Ah, in any case though, I second both the joomla and wordpress recommendation. Both are fantastic systems, with joomla a bit more oriented to creating more of a traditional website and wordpress to traditional blog. It's all fairly mutable, but I'd say that it's where each of their strengths are. For joomla, I'd recommend doing some searches on the hosts forums and google for any company you're thinking of going with. One of the main software installation packages, fantastico, has been somewhat eccentric with their implementation of the joomla package. Well, joomla itself has been in some ways as well. Problems with either are fixed pretty easily by any company aware of the problem and with a mid-range knowledge of them and servers, but the combination of all three is more rare than one would think.

[Kristoffer]

I am using BLUEHOST.COM Works fine and they have a a nice control panel that you log in to and operate your site. From there you admin email, domains and there are a lot of one-clic auto installs. Thats why I chose Bluehost so that I could get started with blogging in wordpress.

[richie]

How about 99 cent pay monthly Plan 1 Gb space and 5 Gb bandwidth
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[Dan.Linehan]

$0.99 / month is pretty damn good.

[AndrewJ]

Free hosting usually requires you to show some ads or there's some other type of catch. Also don't expect quality customer support with free hosts.

Andrew

[1000feet]

You can get basic hosting for under $10 a month - my business site is on $4/month hosting from godaddy; since it's mostly static pages it's easy to pick it up and move to a better plan if I need to. A big CMS or forum would be harder to move since it takes a couple of days for all the viewers to see the new server when you change, but you can still start with a low-cost service now and move up later.

If you go with an established company you can count on something that's reasonably good and won't disappear overnight. They all have the same limitations though so when you outgrow shared hosting you'll have to pay for a dedicated server.

[richie]

Mydosty.com Web Host is owned by me, (Though I dont run it ) Hence I can say that 24*7 support, 30 Day money back guarantee, 99.9% Uptime Guarantee is assured in all the plans. Mydosty.com does not provide free web hosting. I have posted the features below for forum members.
Disk Space: 1 GB
Bandwidth: 5 GB
Cpanel(Demo)
Php,MySql
Unlimited Addon Domains
Unlimited MySql Database
Unlimited Park Domains
Unlimited Subdomains
Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited Ftp Accounts
FrontPage Extension
Website Builder
Scripts Library
Fantastico
Web/Ftp Stats
Hotlink Protection
Access Logs
Index Manager
Ip Deny Manager
Error Pages
Cron Jobs
Apache Handlers
Mime Types
Image Manager
24/7 Customer Support
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Leech Protect
Network Tools
Monthly - 0.99$ Yearly - 9.99$
In yearly plan the total disk space is 1.5 Gb
And total bandwidth is 7 Gb

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[Minsc]

I'm using Amazon S3 and NearlyFreeSpeech for mine.
(S3 for static content, NFS for dynamic)

You can put any kind of content on your site...

Not sure what you mean by archiving articles/services, but I think Wordpress will let you do that. You'll have to upload it to your website and install it by viewing one of it's files in your web browser (from your site, not locally).
You'll need a host with PHP and MySQL for it to work..

Most paid ones have those but most free don't(especially MySQL).

[Dharma]

There is a hosting sticky at the top of this forum.

[Zach]

A friend of mine runs xeentech.com, and I use it to run my sites. It's a small service, but there is almost no downtime, plus you don't share the same server with 5,000 other people like you do with Godaddy or Dreamhost. The customer service is really great, also, and you can have everything totally customized to meet your needs.

[escapee]

I'm using lunarpages.com and hostnine.com. Both of them are decent hosts (limited to my experience ) with good uptimes and customer support that i would recommend .

[ticktockclok]

I'm using StayHosted. They were referred to me by a friend, and are nothing but excellent. Ultra quick service. Cheap hosting ($1.95/month), and no overselling.

[Sleeping Dude]

Bluehost, Dreamhost are fine.
Godaddy is overloaded, and lacks some features when you want to host multiple sites on the same hosting account

[escapee]

I recently switched one of my hosts from Hostnine to imountain.com (clustered, RAID 10). I had a big surge of traffic and they couldnt handle it (suspension ).