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07-25-2002, 03:12 AM
I'm looking to set up a fairly small personal website and need to choose a host. I'm looking for some advice on good hosts for my needs, and hopefully some of you can help me out with suggestions.
Up until recently, I was strongly considering CyberPixels, but the recent fiasco has me strongly reconsidering that option. Would any of you still recommend them as a good host after they resolve their current problems? If so, do you think these problems will be fully resolved within the next month?
I'm also strongly considering phpwebhosting, but I've seen some complaints about them, too (although I've also seen many recommendations from users who had positive experiences with them).
Anyway, let me explain my needs so you can hopefully give me some good recommendations. As I've said, this is a personal website, which will probably be relatively small and low-traffic, but I don't necessarily want small, dirt-cheap, unreliable hosts, so keep that in mind.
Most of all, I'm looking for a host that will be around years from now. I used to run a large gaming site a few years ago, and the site was doing great for several years -- until the host went down. And when a site that's normally updated daily goes down for a few weeks, the loss of traffic is brutal =(
The site I'm preparing now won't be too similar to that one, but I need a reliable host for different needs. First and foremost, I plan on routing all of my email through my new domain for the foreseeable future -- several years, at least -- and if the host suddenly goes down and the domain stops working, I'm in trouble.
Uptime is somewhat important for the same reason - I really don't mind some downtime here and there, but if the downtime is more than a few hours and emails are bouncing, that's a very big problem for me.
Cost is another major consideration. I'm not looking to spend more than about $10/month, and less would be nice, but not if it means a low-quality, unreliable host.
I don't anticipate needing more than about 50 MB of storage, but having more space is always nice. I expect traffic to be fairly low, but some leeway would be nice.
A few subdomains and additional FTP accounts are a must, and it would be nice if I could restrict some FTP accounts to only have access to certain subdomains (does phpwebhosting allow additional FTP accounts to be set up easily? I don't see it mentioned on their site).
Unlimited email forwards/aliases are a must (other than some blogging, that's my major need), along with at least a few POPs. Mailing Lists and webmail are nice, but not a necessity.
PHP, Perl, and SSI are a necessity. A nice control panel and good support are a plus as well. And any other features are always appreciated, although I think I've touched on all of the necessities.
Enough boring details; any and all advice is wanted. Thanks in advance for any help; it's greatly appreciated!
-Scott
Up until recently, I was strongly considering CyberPixels, but the recent fiasco has me strongly reconsidering that option. Would any of you still recommend them as a good host after they resolve their current problems? If so, do you think these problems will be fully resolved within the next month?
I'm also strongly considering phpwebhosting, but I've seen some complaints about them, too (although I've also seen many recommendations from users who had positive experiences with them).
Anyway, let me explain my needs so you can hopefully give me some good recommendations. As I've said, this is a personal website, which will probably be relatively small and low-traffic, but I don't necessarily want small, dirt-cheap, unreliable hosts, so keep that in mind.
Most of all, I'm looking for a host that will be around years from now. I used to run a large gaming site a few years ago, and the site was doing great for several years -- until the host went down. And when a site that's normally updated daily goes down for a few weeks, the loss of traffic is brutal =(
The site I'm preparing now won't be too similar to that one, but I need a reliable host for different needs. First and foremost, I plan on routing all of my email through my new domain for the foreseeable future -- several years, at least -- and if the host suddenly goes down and the domain stops working, I'm in trouble.
Uptime is somewhat important for the same reason - I really don't mind some downtime here and there, but if the downtime is more than a few hours and emails are bouncing, that's a very big problem for me.
Cost is another major consideration. I'm not looking to spend more than about $10/month, and less would be nice, but not if it means a low-quality, unreliable host.
I don't anticipate needing more than about 50 MB of storage, but having more space is always nice. I expect traffic to be fairly low, but some leeway would be nice.
A few subdomains and additional FTP accounts are a must, and it would be nice if I could restrict some FTP accounts to only have access to certain subdomains (does phpwebhosting allow additional FTP accounts to be set up easily? I don't see it mentioned on their site).
Unlimited email forwards/aliases are a must (other than some blogging, that's my major need), along with at least a few POPs. Mailing Lists and webmail are nice, but not a necessity.
PHP, Perl, and SSI are a necessity. A nice control panel and good support are a plus as well. And any other features are always appreciated, although I think I've touched on all of the necessities.
Enough boring details; any and all advice is wanted. Thanks in advance for any help; it's greatly appreciated!
-Scott