Need a good webhost

[Dangerdoll]

I already have a domain but I'm looking to change the webhost because of the inundation of pop-ups. Any recommendations out there?

[mermaiden78]

I dont know of any right off hand let me talk to my hubby. He may know of some without all the P/Us!

[Dangerdoll]

that would be great, mermaiden... I appreciate it ;)

[sublime1184]

http://www.webhostexpert.net/

http://www.webhostexpert.net/images/webhostpfury.gif

Not sure if this is what you're looking for per say, but this is one of the sponsors at p-fury. In fact, I think if you mention "pfury" somewhere in the sign up then you might get some kinda benefit, I think. And though I haven't signed with him, the members who have sing his praises.

[Addict]

www.aplus.net

I've used them for about 2 years now. EXCELLENT service & uptime. Two of the most important factors in a market SATURATED with "web hosts". I have 3 domains with them at the moment all under a single plan.

[Dangerdoll]

excellent!! Thanks guys... does this site elicit pop-ups?

[Addict]

excellent!! Thanks guys... does this site elicit pop-ups?
Popups? HECK NO!!

I wouldn't recommend one that did. :) If you need to charge a monthly AND have popups/banners, your business plan needs adjusting. ;)

[Dangerdoll]

you ain't kidding! thanks bud...

[loaches r cool]

Got broadband? Ever thought of setting up one yourself? Not to difficult, especially if you happen to use linux (I know most people probably dont though). And its a great use for an old system. My site is running on my old celeron 366MHz computer - the first one I ever built (~1998). I even sometimes get a good volume of visitors to it and never had any major congestions, but I do have a faster connection that whats probably available in most places. I just use a free domain name too so I havent spent anything on the whole project except electricity and part of my broadband connection that I would have anyway.

My webiste: http://tristan.homelinux.net

Disclaimer: Enter at your own risk, you may be overwhelmed by the amount of hobbies I have. :eek: :p:

[Addict]

Got broadband? Ever thought of setting up one yourself? Not to difficult, especially if you happen to use linux (I know most people probably dont though). And its a great use for an old system. My site is running on my old celeron 366MHz computer - the first one I ever built (~1998). I even sometimes get a good volume of visitors to it and never had any major congestions, but I do have a faster connection that whats probably available in most places. I just use a free domain name too so I havent spent anything on the whole project except electricity and part of my broadband connection that I would have anyway.
That's ok if you are computer savvy and don't need a decent amount of bandwidth. Most broadband connections are lucky to see 384k uploads.

I'm savvy enough to do it this way, but I have several sites (some not my own) that I host via Aplus. So bandwidth is an issue (as is uptime).

[loaches r cool]

Yeah, I wouldnt recomend it if your trying to host mutliple sites or make some kinda business out of it. But for personal use even 384k upload is fine for pictures and text. I am fortunate to have 'WOW!' cable here and I typicaly get a bit over 6M down and 650k up. Supposibly they are now offering 1M up but havent checked into to it yet though. I occasionally download some of my largest files (movie clips) at work just to see, and I usually get over 80k /sec continous and download movies in under 30 sec that are a few megs. My friend even runs a pretty big site of his dsl connection thats usually in the 250k upload range, but I can notice that large pics take just a couple seconds to load. His site is mostly for his friends and family though, wich are primarly on dial-up.

[DirkW]

excellent!! Thanks guys... does this site elicit pop-ups?

Let's hope not! http://www.averatecforums.com/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif http://www.averatecforums.com/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif http://www.averatecforums.com/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif I thought this was a family oriented forum.




Seriously, I've been in computers a long time and there's not many hosting facilities I'd recommend. Without getting into a long technical discusson, here are the few service providers that I can recommend:

www.lunarpages.com
www.aplus.net
www.1one1.com

There are cheaper alternatives, but expect slowdowns and/or outages. One provider we tried with my son's website advertised "unlimited bandwidth." They shut down his site after two hours for "abusing" their server. Our abuse was to have too many people visiting the site. He now has two dedicated servers with a third coming online soon with over 30,000 unique visitors a day.

[Dangerdoll]

I was looking at 1one1 yesterday and that seemed to look like a good place, but comparing aplus and 1one1, I'm thinking aplus looks to be what I need more so than the other. Maybe there's no real difference but to me, I think what I need is there more than 1one1.... anyhoot... thanks guys for all your help...

[Dangerdoll]

ugh... or do I want the 1one1

[Addict]

ugh... or do I want the 1one1
1and 1 you mean?

1and1 is decent from what I've heard. I can't recommend them since I've not used them. I was looking at using their dedicated server option at one point.

[loaches r cool]

I hope 1one1.com doesnt require you to have '1one1' in your url... that might be difficult when telling someone your url. LOL. "Just go to www dot the number one, the word one, the number one..." ?!?


DirkW, wow thats a lot, over 30,000 unique visitors per day. Must be some major business oriented site? Thats even alot for a succesful internet business I would think? I thought I was doing pretty good with my hobby site getting between 50-100 visitors per day (although webalyzer doesnt distinguish 'unique' visitors so its probably half that). My last month (feb) is 35,000 hits, 3,500 pages, 1300 visits, 1.45GBytes usage.

[Addict]

I hope 1one1.com doesnt require you to have '1one1' in your url... that might be difficult when telling someone your url. LOL. "Just go to www dot the number one, the word one, the number one..." ?!?
lol :laugh:

[Dangerdoll]

1and 1 you mean?

1and1 is decent from what I've heard. I can't recommend them since I've not used them. I was looking at using their dedicated server option at one point.
hehehe, oh yeah... hehehe..... blonde gene attack in full force ;)

[tomdkat]

I've been using Deru.net (http://www.deru.net/) and have been happy with them. :)

Peace...