Hosting Costs

#2 | Linds (http://www.dizzylimits.com)

I'm very loyal to a locally based company called Pharamond. I don't have the greatest deal with them, but their support is great. I pay about $10US a month for 250MB space / 1750MB transfer / 2 databases.

However, I just discovered 1and1.com recently, and I'm currently enjoying 6 months of 1 free .com domain registration, 2GB space / 50GB transfer / 150 subdomains. After that I think it's like $5.99 a month or something for their bare-bones hosting package, which is still pretty hefty. I have heard their service isn't the most wonderfullest though, and they get really crabby when you try to transfer your free domain to a different host. ;) Plus their control panels are pretty useless; you definitely have to know your UNIX shiznit to get anything done.

#4 | Ryan Latham (http://www.unmatchedstyle.com)

I'm in the same boat as you Paul. I notice you use Dreamhost (at least on some of your million sites), as do I. You are already framiliar with the specs, and the cost. They have been good to me. FTP and some management tools are sluggish and sub par, but for the price it is more than you bargin for.

When renewing hosting, I needed it fast, and I did not have a whole lot of money to spend as Christmas was approaching. I set a goal, either my visitors donate half the cost, or nothing. At the time I needed to raise around $70, which after the fund raiser was over, I only ended up spending around "little Jimmy's Christmas Sweater."

Now that the past months have been good to me financially, I am planning on upgrading from the entry level plan to the Code Monster plan which will be a benefit to everyone who visits my sites, as well as myself. I think the most I ever seen on any site I've made is 1.2GB (unmatched style of course) and with so much bandwidth, I don't see myself going over that.

My biggest concern is storage, I've been and the custom DNS. I've been making my thumbnails for UMS at a higher quality for my visitor...and as much as I've been updating over there (plus SQL databases) I can see myself running low on storage down the road.

But I've had a bunch of different hosts in the past; and I like Dreamhost the best. Sure on FTP speeds, and execution of certain languages (Perl) they are a bit sluggish, but nothing to cry about. I have never seen my sites down, I saw my email down for 15 minutes because the server email was hosted on went out, but other than that; what you get for the price is unbeatable.

#6 | Jacob G. (http://cssvault.com)

I've had a dedicated server for about a year now. It was one of the best moves I've ever made. You just have so much control over what you do that it is absolutely wonderful.

I have the "Super Xeon" plan at ServerMatrix and it has been great. It is a very powerful machine and runs around $200 a month. I wouldn't use near all of it's power if I wasn't running some CPU eating tests on it most of the time. It is still running at top speed, but I'm probably going to have to get another smaller dedicated server sooner or later.

I can't even remember the last time ServerMatrix had down time. They really are a great company with great support. I tried a few other big dedicated hosts and no other ones matched up to this as far as uptime, speed, and price.

#8 | Jen (http://booizzy.com)

Another ASmallOrange.com fan here. I pay $5/month for 400 meg of space, 10 gig of transfer, and unlimited subdomains and databases. Before that, I was paying $18/month for less space. They've been very responsive and helpful too.

#10 | Jamie Starkel (http://www.starkel.net)

I just signed up with DreamHost a month or so ago. My host gives me 2.4 GB storage space, 120 GB monthly transfer, 3 full domains, 15 subdomains, and a bunch more. It is on a shared server, but I haven't had any problems with the speed or responsiveness of my 2 hosted domains so far. My hosting plan is only $7.95 a month. The service has been good so far and I'm pretty happy with them. They also have a 97 day money back guarantee. Can't go wrong. And I know my site is unfinished.... working on a new design.

Jamie

#12 | Mat (http://www.mrpatto.com)

I'm on Textdrive (VC1 plan - USD$200/lifetime for up to 15domains). Can't get that anymore but the standard hosting deal there is great value. See Textdrive plans for details.

#14 | Pascal (http://www.ritzerfeldrock.nl)

I am from the Netherlands and I host my project (don't want to call it a website yet) at Keeponhosting.nl for 1$/m.
375mb, 10gb traffic, unl. db, mysql, php/asp. Plesk reloaded as panel. Works like a charm and they respond to tickets in minutes. Very good. Beats me how they can make a profit with these prices, but hey, I am not complaining.

#16 | Lea (http://whatsmyip.com.au/)

I am currently running a reseller account on Quality Hosting Online. More to hold my too many domain names, and a few for friends than to resell.
$US10 per month, 2 gig diskspace and 10 gig bandwidth per month.
Havent needed to make a support call yet (and thats a good thing on its own! :)) but its all running smoothly so far.

#18 | Tom

I pay about £3 a month for one site hosting, 500mb space, 3GB Transfer, All the mod cons, MySQL, PHP etc.

My larget site. £50 a year, 1GB space, 10GB Transfer, and we can part 5 or do domains. I belive we can setup like 500 email accounts if we want.

Personally I would rarther have a managed dedicated server, installing PHP yourself is a bitch.

#20 | Jasper

I'm on Hostrocket (hostrocket.com). Their RocketOne deal is good - 50g transfer, 1g storage, unlimited mail, subdomains, etc...

I've been with them for 3 years, and I have a few of my clients sites hosted there to. Tech support is great. They give you a discount when you register multiple accounts, and they have a referral program too.

#22 | steve (http://www.fifthroomcreative.com)

I have 2 which I will be consilidating this wekeend to one...
1 - 1and1.com I pay $9.98 a month for 2GB of storage, great deal, and have 3 or 4 sites on there. Service is so-so and is often of an 'internationa; accent' which frustrates the hell out of me but UI and abilities are pretty solid.

2 - aplus.net, same price but half the storage. It was a great deal 2 years ago when I signed up but the UI isn't all that great. Service rocks. You pick which is more important.

I plan to switch to Dreamhost based on a long thread of comments last week on another site (I can't remember where now) but there sale price right now are to die for and I've gotten a good taste of their support as I emailed them a bunch of questions and got responses quick, went back and forth a bunch of times and was pleased. I feel like consolidating a bunch of sites on 4.8GB for $15 a month is a sweet deal.

#24 | Bryan (http://www.majorchampionships.com)

I have been fortunate to have a good soul present me with free hosting for the last 8 months. I currently run 4 of my sites on his server and he is very helpful, but his name must be kept a secret, because if I told you, I'd have to....you know the rest...

#26 | Matt (http://www.matthewroach.co.uk)

I currently host my websites with webhosting.uk.com who I have found very good..


My own hosting package which is a custom package they did for me is shared hosting with the following:

2gig of space,

20gig monthly bandwith,

10 addon domains,

10 parked domains,

10 subdomains,

5 mySql databases,

and much more.


Whenever I need more addon domains, parked domains , subdomains are database I just drop them an e-mail and they are happy to just add them to my account at no extra costs.

All of this comes to £45.00 which is equall to $86.23

#28 | Brady J. Frey (http://www.dotfive.com)

Shared hosting for my personal site - 100 bucks a year gets me:
- 1 gig of space
- 40 gigs of bandwidth
- unlimited email and forwarders

lunarpages.com

However, with all of my other personal sites on the same thing, I have been thinking of switching over to a dedicated host, and putting each on there.

#30 | Paul (http://www.salted.com)

I'm with 1and1 (www.1and1.com) for a Windows dedicated server. 3GHz Intel HT, 2GB RAM, 120GB HDD and 1.5TB bandwidth per month, for $149 per month.

#32 | Robby Russell (http://www.planetargon.com/)

PLANET ARGON

Level 1: 400 MB Disk Space, 15 GB transfer, private instance of PostgreSQL, MySQL, unlimited mail accounts, SSH access, PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, Python, Java, Perl, etc. As low as $11/month.

#34 | Matt Galaviz

I host with http://www.layerblue.com, I do the 500 meg/5 gig hosting for 4.95 a month. I also have a 50 meg SQL Server 2k database for 35 a year. I use ASP.NET so I usually end up paying more but I don't mind.

#36 | Moises Kirsch (http://www.moiblog.com)

I'm currently using jumpline.com mostly. The price seems fair and the thing that I love the most is that it works like your own server where you can modify the configuration of apache, php, etc.

I also have an account with mediatemple but now seems a little expensive compared to other hosting companies.

#38 | Scrivs (http://9rules.com/)

Thanks for all the information so far people. Very, very useful.

#40 | Aleksandar (http://www.aplus.co.yu/)

I'm on DreamHost too, on the cheapest plan. What amazes me with them is that I bought the plan for 2 years in Nov 2004, and one month after they just enlarged the specs 3x! No payments, no options, no nothing. Simply updated the plan and gave the update for free to all existing owners.

Really make me want to stick around.

#42 | JH (http://handelaar.org)

At Servermatrix, a dedicated box running Debian stable, with 80Gb of hard disk, 1 gig of RAM and 1200 GB/month of bandwidth - $59. Probably now not available for less than $89 since it was a special.

#44 | Matt Jacob (http://www.mattjacob.com)

I just switched over to Site5 about a month ago, and I've been very happy with them so far. For $6.95/mo. I get 3 GB of storage space and 50 GB of bandwidth. They also allow for 4 other sites to be hosted on the same account, and the plan I'm on comes with all the standard stuff (email accounts, MySQL databases, shell access, etc.).

#46 | Jules (http://jrickards.ca)

Ooops, misspelt Canadian Roadside Attractions.