Web Host Recommendations

[jasondubya]

I am currently on the hunt for a web host that provides the following:


PHP/Zend
ASP
Cold Fusion
MySQL
A large amount of bandwidth
A fair amount of storage
A decent price


Can any one offer some recommendations on web hosts that I should look into?

Thanks,
Jason

[soccer362001]

It does not have all the things you listed but it does have some good deals. www.ipowerweb.com

[Daniel T]

If you are looking for one that supports Coldfusion, ASP, and PHP, then you probably won't be able to get it to fit your last spec.

Do you really need all of those server-side languages?
-Dan

[The Cheat]

ipowerweb is good, however, their support is verrry slow.

i personally would recomend icdsoft.com as a great budget host, (5 bucks a month, lots of a features) they have excellent support! Try it out, they guarentee a response within the hour, however, they'll probably reply within 10 minutes.

and tera-byte.com is also a great host that has been around and they have a solid reputation. Although they will cost you more, they have a lot more plans and options than icdsoft. Tera-byte has great support as well.

and remember,
always do a search for a host you are looking into at the webhostingtalk.com (http://www.webhostingtalk.com) forums. This is extremely important.

[jfaust97]

AHEADOFMYTIME.COM Chicago Web Design and Development (http://www.aheadofmytime.com) uses icdsoft.com exclusively...

[john_h]

affinity.net is a *cough* fairly large company that can offer pretty much what you need depending on the reseller.

hostsave.com for linux plans
winsave.com for windows based hosting

personally however... if you have a serious project, I would go with datapipe.com. nobody has a better managed shared server (they have big pipes and limit their shared plans to 20 accounts per server -- who else does that?), and their dedicated plans are pretty dang sweet.

[NHDesigns]

I have found www.1sthostweb.com to be a good choice. Do not judge them by their main page. They offer so much for a small amount that it is unbelievable. I currently have two sites hosted by them and anytime I have a question, they reply within a two hour limit. They have reps around the clock working for you.
List of some features:
- Unlimited e-mail accounts = money in your pockets for big websites requesting additional e-mail addresses!
- MYsql databases
- Disk Usage
- Web/FTP stats
- Redirects
- Frontpage Extensions
- Chatroom
- PhpMyChat
- Error Log
ect.... to much to list

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by Daniel T
If you are looking for one that supports Coldfusion, ASP, and PHP, then you probably won't be able to get it to fit your last spec.

Do you really need all of those server-side languages?
-Dan if they can host asp, it wont cost them a cent more to host pho or cf, iis can run it all. Hosts like to gouge you where the can though :p
www.brinkster.com they seem to have made themselves into a half way decent host with the upgrade to w2k3. It was good of them to push out the squatters to provide a decent service. No cf though, its asp, asp.net, php. Mysql and mssql served.

http://cybersitesindia.com/main.asp?PageName=services_Frameset.htm is great, but the currency is all indian. After the conversion it is pretty darned cheap though. I am getting a plan from this host in the future though a reseller I know, who can hook me up with a lot of space for a very low price.

[theuedimaster]

try dynamohosting.net i get it from them. pretty good.

[Nedals]

I'm also looking for a good, reasonably priced, host for a current and future clients. I did a 'google' search on 'website hosting' and checked out the 'Best 10... chart' (sponsored link). The #1 guy is http://www.ixwebhosting.com. They seem to offer everything and more!!

Does anyone have any direct knowledge of these guys?

[The Cheat]

I'm also looking for a good, reasonably priced, host for a current and future clients. I did a 'google' search on 'website hosting' and checked out the 'Best 10... chart' (sponsored link). The #1 guy is http://www.ixwebhosting.com. They seem to offer everything and more!!

Does anyone have any direct knowledge of these guys?
have you tried searching at the wht (http://webhostingtalk.com) forums?

Heres some stuff i found about them:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=260019&highlight=IXWebHosting
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=237420&highlight=IXWebHosting
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=153765&highlight=IXWebHosting
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=259248&highlight=ixwebhosting.com
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=244504&highlight=ixwebhosting.com

[Nedals]

Thanks for the link. Interesting forum.
I did a search as suggested. I guess I'll scratch ixwebhosting. :)

[The Cheat]

hehe :D

[jasondubya]

So here's a new twist to the equation. I need a Windows server. And for the bandwidth needs... 300G+/month. Any more suggestions out there? :-D

Thanks a million!

[PeOfEo]

http://hosting.parking.ru
http://www.brinkster.com <-- they revamped their who system, and are actually good now, no longer a crappy free host, but a good premium host.
http://cybersitesindia.com/main.asp?PageName=services_Frameset.htm

These all run on windows servers and are going to support asp classic and asp.net. CF and PHP might not be supported. Have a look, see if any of them will suffice.

300gig a month is a ton of bandwidth. Good luck getting that at a reasonable price. What are you going to be doing that would require so much? I can live off of 1 - 5 gig a month for a site (even with a downloads section or something). Brinkster's high end hosting plans have uncapped bandwidth.

• 1 Free Domain Name
• 2000 MB Web Space
• Unlimited Web Traffic
• 500 Email Accts
• ASP/ASP.NET/PHP
• MS Access/MySQL
• MS SQL Server 2000
• Web Site Builder

bout 20 a month with brinkster. Only thing it does not have is cf.

ps: if you want asp classic I could have told you you would need a windowx server from the star. Asp.net will run on linux though.

[96turnerri]

Originally posted by soccer362001
It does not have all the things you listed but it does have some good deals. www.ipowerweb.com

thats what i use, gona put it too some good use soon, look out, Rich

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by 96turnerri
thats what i use, gona put it too some good use soon, look out, Rich would not catch me dead using them. They do not have mssql server. That is going to be the best thing to use for asp or asp.net. It will beat the crap out of mysql in a windows environment performance wise. It is also the easiest to use code wise from asp or asp.net. The reason is because it was designed with these two technologies in particular in mind.

[soccer362001]

Nevermind I read it wrong

[The Cheat]

Originally posted by jasondubya
So here's a new twist to the equation. I need a Windows server. And for the bandwidth needs... 300G+/month. Any more suggestions out there? :-D

Thanks a million!
300GB A MONTH?!?!?!?!?!

If you plan on using all that up then you better be getting a dedicated server..

[96turnerri]

Originally posted by PeOfEo
would not catch me dead using them. They do not have mssql server. That is going to be the best thing to use for asp or asp.net. It will beat the crap out of mysql in a windows environment performance wise. It is also the easiest to use code wise from asp or asp.net. The reason is because it was designed with these two technologies in particular in mind.

i didnt mean im gonna put it to some good use as in cain the **** out of it, i just mean im putting up my site soon on their ;)

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by 96turnerri
i didnt mean im gonna put it to some good use as in cain the **** out of it, i just mean im putting up my site soon on their ;) your site requires a mssql server db... because I said so. Brinkster rocks now, I used ot hate them, but they changed their attitude. Parking has always been good. That indian one is good if you know the right resller. They do not sell plans to people, they only sell to resellers, its weird. But they do have asp.net and are on w2k3, the site is old.

[jasondubya]

Dedicated hosting seems to be the direction that we are heading. A new post is coming...

[PeOfEo]

Thats $$$ pricy as crap. You are basically buying another computer and paying them to run it and the electric and network bill for it.

[The Cheat]

Well I can guarantee you that nobody is going to allow you to use 300GB a month on a shared server. Some might offer it, but the truth is they are overselling, and they'll disconnect you from their servers if you get anywhere close to 300GB on a shared hosting plan.

And beware of hosts that offer 'unlimited space' or 'unlimited bandwidth' - there is simply no such thing.

[The Cheat]

Originally posted by PeOfEo
Thats $$$ pricy as crap. You are basically buying another computer and paying them to run it and the electric and network bill for it.
You are also paying for it to be in a datacenter that is monitored 24/7 by people who(hopefully) know what they are doing.

Yes shared hosting does cost less, but there are risks with shared hosting. Another person who you are sharing with could take down the server, get into your database, etc- if they are a cracker. Also you have the risk that someone who you are sharing the server with could be running vulnerable scripts which can put the entire server at risk. Not to mention that other people on the server can slow it down, and when you need a lot of resources and bandwidth this can be a problem. If its just a personal site, sure shared hosting is great, but if its a corporate site dedicated is probably a better option.

[PeOfEo]

Not really. If its a large shared host its more risky. But if you share the server with 10 others maybe, semi dedicated, The ods another will get on are less. In semi dedicated you may or may not have remote desktop though. One advantage to full dedicated is you can put whatever you want on there, you can download and install crap left and right to that server. Its pretty much your computer, its just in india being watched over by sweat shop kids, thats all.

[The Cheat]

what are you talking about dude...

The server isn't necessarily in India- technical support may be, but probably not the server and the server admins!

Hosts will tell you where their datacenters are. Well atleast they should, unless its some lame teen who runs a webhosting business in his basement. ;)

Some hosts may have their servers in a datacenter in the US, then base their customer support in india... nothing wrong with that. Yes i know it takes away American jobs, blah blah, but it also enables them to lower the prices on their services thus making it cheaper for you.

[PeOfEo]

Heh, my favorite host is indian. Thats all I know. I bet every host is in some asian country. I bet they are all run by indonesian kids. The servers are inside of a hut in a ghetto on a bigger island in indonesia. Ok, ok, would singapore be beleivable?

[Nevermore]

Originally posted by The Cheat
And beware of hosts that offer 'unlimited space' or 'unlimited bandwidth' - there is simply no such thing.
Actually, technically there is. If they don't set a specific limit, but instead kick people off who get 'too high', they can cal themselves unlimited fairly.

Anywho, I recommend valueweb - http://valueweb.com/dedicated/dedicated-hosting.htm
I know you said you didn't want dedicated hosting, but if you're changing to mssql from mysql because of the performance gap - which, to be honest, is small - then surely you need dedicated hosting for the speed. Same with needing 300GB bandwidth; you won't get it reliably from a shared server.

In other news, did you know it's almost TWICE as expensive to buy 1&1 hosting from the UK as from the US? £48 compared to $48 for their dedicated offerings!

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by cijori
Actually, technically there is. If they don't set a specific limit, but instead kick people off who get 'too high', they can cal themselves unlimited fairly. I aggree, unlimited bandwidth just means there is no cap in place, use all you want within reason. But do not try to host your own stupidvideos.com or napterish mp3 sites here.

[EcKs]

With all those differant features your looking for i would concider maybe using brinkster, there storage space may not be all you need, but what they lack there is forsure made up in there customer service and support.

And if space is a real issue there is the option of a dedicated server with more than plenty of storage. Brinkster offers a really cheap introductory dedicated service plan.

Intel 2.6 GHz Celeron
256 MB RAM
40 GB IDE HD
300 GB Web Traffic
24/7/365 Live Support

brinkster dedicated (http://www40.brinkster.com/brinksterreview/dedicatedhosting.html)