I have recently discovered this wonderful forum, and am in the market for a new hosting provider. I have seriously suffered on three Communitech resellers in the last two years, and my current provider has had one chance too many to get their act together with regard to the fact that they are down every other day, POP3/SMTP e-mail servers never work, and when I do contact their support people, I never get an answer.

So.... I have the following core requirements for hosting:-
100mb-200mb webspace
25gb+ of bandwidth
mySQL & PHP
POP3 mailboxes
FTP access

Most of my site is dynamically-driven through a combination of PHP pages and mySQL databases, hence a strong need for this particular feature.

By back-reading through this forum, I have come across two providers that strike me as a potential way forward... namely "TeraByte" and "HostRocket".

Would anyone be willing to provide some honest information about their experiences with either of these companies, or suggest alternatives? My budget is no more than $50-a-month at present.

Thanks in advance,

Mark153

If you do a search on this forum as well as over at SitePoint (http://www.sitepointforums.com), you'll find plenty of advocates (including myself) for either or both Tera-Byte or HostRocket. Both are highly recommended.

I'm also in this confusing mine field.

I'm considering Vservers/Hostpro but as they have what looks like excellent packages and the company seems fairly sound.

From this board an others I have been strongly recommended Rockethosts.

I checked out rockethosts packages, but I am a little concerned that their top package only offers 15GB/month bandwidth.

It would be nice to here from people who have hosted with HostRocket and have required more bandwidth. What sort of prices do they charge per extra GB/month. Can you buy extra bandwith from them in chunks eg extra 10GB. I've looked on the site and can't find any reference to it.

What I don't wan't is to quickly outgrow the package and have to move hosts, and start this whole search nightmare all over again.

The thing that brings me back to VServers/hostpro is that they would seem to be able to accomodate any sort of upwards growth.

why don't you ask hostrocket what they charge for bandwidth?

later

David

just done it - $10 GB

If you are interested in this, email me. We do have a high bandwidth option with much lower costs for overage, we can discuss it in an email.

-Brendan
brendan@hostrocket.com

Brendan,

I would ask that you e-mail Chiliboy in the future and keep ads off the forum. Although appropriate to the subject, it is in breach of the forum rules at http://www.webhostlink.com/announcement.php?forumid=1 E-mail is more suitable for this kind of discussion between the two of you.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Originally posted by chilliboy
just done it - $10 GB

Pretty high.

$2 to $3 is considered good

later

David