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04-19-2004, 06:14 PM #1Newbie
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Looking for hosts for $1/month
Can anyone recommend me a host for about $1/month? How much webspcae do I get for this price?
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04-19-2004, 06:18 PM #2Predatory Poster
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as much as people are dumb enough to sell to you at that price. I wouldn't expect decent service to come with it.
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04-19-2004, 06:20 PM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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$1 and expect nothing but trouble. its amazing people sell that cheap, because a profit margin even if people do signup would be so damn tight.
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04-19-2004, 06:43 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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Remember you get what you pay for.
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04-19-2004, 06:44 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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http://www.preteenhost.com/ may be able to help you out
Simon
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04-19-2004, 06:54 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Re: Looking for hosts for $1/month
Originally posted by wsdepot-user
Can anyone recommend me a host for about $1/month? How much webspcae do I get for this price?if you haven't considered chapter 7 bankruptcy, maybe you should.
eliminate your debt, keep the property you want, most people qualify.
contrary to popular belief - no attorney is necessary!
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04-19-2004, 06:58 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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Re: Looking for hosts for $1/month
Originally posted by wsdepot-user
Can anyone recommend me a host for about $1/month? How much webspcae do I get for this price?
http://www.fortunecity.com/free-web-hosting.shtmlA Collection of Web Hosts
Small biographies on hosts, uptime reports and some reviews
Feel free to add your review or add a host that isn't on the list.
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04-19-2004, 07:09 PM #8Workaholic
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1.00? That's rediculous. Go with a FREE host, you'll be much better off. Just have your domain redirect to your free account.
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04-19-2004, 07:37 PM #9Web Hosting Evangelist
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and domain included in that price, right?
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04-19-2004, 07:42 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by [HC]Rick
its amazing people sell that cheap, because a profit margin even if people do signup would be so damn tight.
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04-19-2004, 08:01 PM #11Junior Guru
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out 28-30 days thats all you can find?
you can get very good plans for $5 a month
who can;t do that?- Steve D
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04-19-2004, 08:02 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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Would you be prepaired to pay annually? There are some hosts which will provide you with what you need.
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04-19-2004, 10:14 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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Here's one I use, $10/yr:
http://www.discount-hosting.com/
There are no options, no technical support and almost no downtime.You'll get fewer complaints from over performing than from over promising.
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04-19-2004, 11:05 PM #14Temporarily Suspended
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i used ripplehost, $9.95 a site, for the year. just be careful with the signup process . i got billed twice for the year by accidently going through it twice.
so far no downtime (none that i know of anyway)....support..its probably not there but whatever,i never use support anyway.
if i have a question , i look it up on google or here or wherever
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04-19-2004, 11:08 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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< "kidding" removed >
(To the mods: i'm just kidding)
I think you should look for free hosting from somewhere like fortunecity or hostrocket. Or you can pay a little bit more and get some quality hosting services. As the motto goes, your site is worth what you pay. If you think your site is worth $1 per month, that's fine. But if it is worth that much, as someone else said, why bother?Last edited by SoftWareRevue; 04-19-2004 at 11:26 PM.
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04-19-2004, 11:58 PM #16Aspiring Evangelist
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I believe that www.myonehost.com have a starter account for a few dollars per month. I'm with them at the moemnt and they have live help, you can get someone most times (usually), so far it seems ok, although their is no documentation with their admin panel and for newbies like me this is not satisfactory, but there is nothing negative written about them and everything seems alright. But I personally would agree with the other guys regarding price, I'm actively looking for a higher quality provider even though these guys seem alright so far, I can't believe I can get such cheap hosting without some kind of catch in the future
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04-20-2004, 02:09 AM #17Newbie
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http://www.onedollarhost.net/index.asp
$1 a month as you requested : ) don't know how good they are, probably get what you pay for.Last edited by bobobro; 04-20-2004 at 02:13 AM.
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04-20-2004, 02:59 AM #18Junior Guru
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lol thats too good to be true
unlimited space and bandwith
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04-20-2004, 03:06 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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As someone suggested above -- ripplehost.com would meet your needs -- which is owned by splashhost (who also posted above)
Another close contender is e-rice.net 150Mb/3Gb Bandwidth for $15/yr
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04-20-2004, 03:14 AM #20Aspiring Evangelist
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Hosting is just soooo incredibly cheap nowadays. How can anybody make aprofit charging $1 per month? Just one query per month would cancel out any profits surely.
I would'nt want even the hastle for offering a $1 service per month, as so many have siad you may as well offer free, at least if someone has not paid they are not going to be able to demand anything.
I cna't see how people stay in business at that price? Anybody have any idea how these guys stay in business????
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04-20-2004, 03:39 AM #21Disabled
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Anybody have any idea how these guys stay in business????
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04-20-2004, 03:57 AM #22Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by HQHost
I know some of them . And the only way to stay in business is customer's care nevermind whether they pay $0.99/month or $9.99/month. When you treat your clients - they will be satisfied and recommend your host to their friends and so on.
Minus transaction fee's, you're looking at taking around 30-40 cents from that one dollar, IF you're lucky.
Now, convert that 30-40 cents into anything that isn't overselling of the grandest nature, and you're looking at running at a major loss, possibly a loss-leader for some companies, but a loss all the same.
However, if someone only value's their website at halkf the price of a cup of coffee, then maybe they won't mind all the overselling, overstocking, etc.
Simon
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04-20-2004, 04:30 AM #23Aspiring Evangelist
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Re: Re: Looking for hosts for $1/month
Originally posted by schmeg007
I'd recommend simply going with a free hosting service that has been around for many years. Chances are they will be much more reliable than a hosting service at such a low price.
http://www.fortunecity.com/free-web-hosting.shtml
They got rid of everything and anything that made FC a beautiful Cyber Community. Just My Opinion As An Ex-Minister Of The FC Business Park Community.
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04-20-2004, 04:47 AM #24Aspiring Evangelist
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As Simon pointed out, they are practically operating at a loss, I cannot see it is possible to sustain any business in that way, even if they got it free, it is just not possible to make a profit for a dollar per month, not even possible to run "at cost" I can't imagine.
So presumably the majority of these guys will either
a: put up the prices onces they get enough customers
b: go bankrupt
Its no accident that the most reliable nad largest service providers don't have anything like those low prices.
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04-20-2004, 05:38 AM #25Web Hosting Master
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Tanuk, you are completely incorrect. RippleHost makes a healthy profit every month, its just as reliable and fast as any other host and we are certainly not going to go bankrupt.
The only difference is that tech support is via forums only.