I am looking for a good cheap host.

250-400MB space
12-20GB transfer
(more likely 15-20GB)
PHP, CGI, MySQL

$10-15/month

Is tera-byte any good? They look good on paper.

HostRocket looks good too, but I have heard many bad things.....

I can definitely recommend Tera-Byte. And considering their prices, support there is usually very good.

Thanks, anyone else used them? I hate to base a decision on one opinion....

Try using the search function to find out what people are saying about Tera-Byte. ;)

Sorry, I will. :) Thanks!

anyone kno if they offer subdomains, I can't see it on their site?

They use DNS Wildcards, so anything.yourdomain.com directs to yourdomain.com. To get around this, you could write a simple php script or any other language that looks for the tag blah.yourdomain.com in the url and changes it to yourdomain.com/blah. I can also definitely reccomend them, I've had no downtime, and their support always responds within a couple hours of a support request.

Do you want your subdomains points an ip outside the webhosting company?

The support at tera-byte is very very good, they answer your mails ASAP, but sometimes there is a downtime on their server but with the support they get it on running so this is not a big problem. I would go for them...

Yup. Tera-byte are pretty fine. Besides the fact that they don't offer subdomains, their services are really good for the price.

My only complaints (and I haven't figured out if its my fault or theirs) are that I have weird POP mail timeouts trying to retrieve my mail from the server... which happens on a couple of different connections.

They did try really hard to track down the problem but couldn't find a solution... but, pretty good overall.

Also there seems to be an on-going but sporadic problem of idiots running scripts on my shared server which suck up all of the resources. I know this is a danger of shared hosting, but it seems to happen with Tera-byte more often than the other companies I host sites with. Chalk that up to their popularity and cheap price, I suppose.

HTH,
Neil

Originally posted by theNonsuch
Yup. Tera-byte are pretty fine. Besides ...
... there seems to be an on-going but sporadic problem of idiots running scripts on my shared server which suck up all of the resources. I know this is a danger of shared hosting, but it seems to happen with Tera-byte more often than the other companies I host sites with...
HTH,
Neil

I think Tera-byte dont just throw people out when they use all the ressources, I dont think they warn their customers as much as other hosts do, they accept many things, I think, but they are very good although...

I have a question: does tera-byte offer SSI? it didnt say anything about it on the info page.

Thanks.

hi skizzik. and yes it does. my site WAS going to go with tera byte, but they gave me bad support. all i wanted was to process my account, then they ignored me, added on another 200 onto my account for some bull#@$ i dont know. i cancelled immedietly. im not the only one who had bad experience......but, it seems just in this forum. people at vbulletin.com dont have good stories :/

I have used Tera-Byte to host The Probert Encyclopaedia since June 200, both on a shared account and now on a virtual server. There support and prices are excellent, I can telephone at any time of day and get help when I need it.

A very reliable host too, I noticed a few 5 minute outages on the shared account over six months, but that's nothing spectacular.

I recommend tera-byte without reservation.