My local used car dealer needs a website, and has asked me to make it. Disk space is no big deal, since he will only need 15-20MB's, however we will need 7-10gigs a month and mysql/php and perl/cgi. He isn't making enough money to pay more than $100 a year currently, but he does realize that he will have to upgrade eventually. He does not need a shopping cart. I have found the following hosts, and I would like to know your experiences with them.

RTChost (http://www.rcthost.com/virtual.htm) - I have seen some slightly bad reviews about them in the past. However, they seem to have matured a little as a company since then. I am looking at the special plan.

simplenethosting (http://www.simplenethosting.com/plans.html) - I was looking at the silver plan. They seem to have a lot of 'unlimiteds', but they have been in business longer than a lot of host I have looked at.

ionhosting (http://www.ionhosting.com/hosting_plans.html)

totallyhosted (http://www.totallyhosted.net/shared/th-silver.htm) -

wisehosting (http://www.wisehosting.net/hosting/index.html) - I have heard some damn good ratings from them. They seem to offer a lot for the money.

phantasy works hosting (http://www.phantasyworkshosting.com/hosting/)

Just to point one thing out, unlimited in the ways that simplenet offers isn't necessarily bad, a lot of good hosts offer several unlimited things, just stay away from space and bandwidth ;)

I don't know much about those companies, but the phantasy owner (I presume) is around here a lot so you should get some replies about them.

theres a LOT of info on the above hosts you've mentioned. just do a search:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?s=

And also check out Web Hosting Requests and post your requirements and get responses from other hosts you may have not already looked at but have good deals for you

good luck :)

Originally posted by Brad4321
My local used car dealer needs a website, and has asked me to make it. Disk space is no big deal, since he will only need 15-20MB's, however we will need 7-10gigs a month and mysql/php and perl/cgi. He isn't making enough money to pay more than $100 a year currently, but he does realize that he will have to upgrade eventually. He does not need a shopping cart. I have found the following hosts, and I would like to know your experiences with them.

RTChost (http://www.rcthost.com/virtual.htm) - I have seen some slightly bad reviews about them in the past. However, they seem to have matured a little as a company since then. I am looking at the special plan.

simplenethosting (http://www.simplenethosting.com/plans.html) - I was looking at the silver plan. They seem to have a lot of 'unlimiteds', but they have been in business longer than a lot of host I have looked at.

ionhosting (http://www.ionhosting.com/hosting_plans.html)

totallyhosted (http://www.totallyhosted.net/shared/th-silver.htm) -

wisehosting (http://www.wisehosting.net/hosting/index.html) - I have heard some damn good ratings from them. They seem to offer a lot for the money.

phantasy works hosting (http://www.phantasyworkshosting.com/hosting/)

An interesting mix you've got there. All I can say is do a lot of research and be very careful.

I posted a list four or five days ago that will doesn't contain any of the (IMO) turkeys you've got there.

My $0.02

You might want to post in the requests forum, you will get replies from hosts on WHT.

I've been ion for about 4 months now and I am pretty dissatisfied with their service. Here are some of the inconviences I have had with them:

1) excessive downtime: yesturday my site was down for about 14 hours, I emailed them 4 times asking what is going on, I still haven't gotten a reply

2) horrible accessability: In order to access phpmyadmin you have to first login to your ssl based control panel, then select the domain where the database is located, then you must click the "databases" button, then you must click the link to open phpmyadmin, and then it will refresh the page with the list of databases and open a popup with phpmyadmin (i experienced problems with the popup opening the initial control panel login page)

3) Php no-no's: they have disabled the system() and phpinfo() commands in php. This proved to be a major hastle as I would have to find replacement functions in php, where alot of the features in the functions were missing.

4) Support?: I had to email their support team many times, at often times I would get an excuse that was similar to that of "that's just the way it is". and that I would just have to deal with it.

5) subdomains: Whenever you want to add a subdomain to your account you have to email them with the request to add it, this process would take anywhere from 20 minutes to 48 hours.

6) PERL: with alot of perl scripts that I tried running I would often get Internal Server errors. When I emailed the support team about it, I would just get a reply that they don't assist in issues with 3rd party software.

7) Gaming servers: One of the services they announces after I was there for about a month was that they would do gaming server hosting. Inside the information page it said that users that ordered a gaming server would automatically get a business plan 3 hosting package. I was a member of the business plan 3 hosting package, when I emailed them about getting a gaming server they told me that they had had to send many emails out to people saying that they do not give gaming servers out to people who were on the business plan 3 hosting package.

On that same page it said that they would give away a free 15 minute demo of their gaming servers. I contacted them about it and I got a reply that they would be contacting me in less than 2 days about setting it up. After a week passed I sent them another email about the gaming server and how they never contacted me, They told me the same thing that they would email me in less than 2 days about it, 3 weeks passed and I still didn't get an email, I emailed them again and I got no reply.


There's my story with ionhosting, I am finally switching hosts this weekend, hopefully this one will be better.

Originally posted by mas3000
You might want to post in the requests forum, you will get replies from hosts on WHT.
He is looking for suggestions not quotes....
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