Hi everyone,
I am sorry for possible offtopic, but I need your help in find new web hosting provider as soon as possible, because my current host (bluehost.com) is kicking me off, they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB (maybe they do not like that?)
Anyway, what would be your recommendations for getting reliable web hosting? Where are you hosting your websites? Are you happy with your providers?
I am now checking http://www.hosting24.com/ - offer looks very nice, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".
What do you think about it? Maybe things have changed in last 4 years? With my current provider I get only 2GB of disk space for $10 per month..
Any ideas and suggestions are much appreciated.
make sure you read their TOS.
its very possible that they do offer unlimited space in 500gb increments, but there might be a catch to it.
bluehosting.com is what I'm using. Haven't really tested their limits, but I can't complain. Fast, easy to use and comes with a great installer...
People have suggested HostGator to me, plainly because of the masses of voucher codes available online. But like everyone else said, check the TOS.
Rory
What kind of a site do you run that would cause so much stress on their servers? HMMMM?
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while I havent actually finished our website yet the hosting is working 100%.
some of the sites currently being hosted by us:
www.outboards2go.com
www.chrissutcliff.co.uk
www.zer0-hour.co.uk
I've been satisfied for several years with 1&1.
If you need some web space, I can give you just that. I have unlimited HDD space on my hosting account, so I can offer you up to 5GB for storing android ROMs via FTP. This is a great offer, as you can backup your ROMs, knowing that you won't have them expire on websites like RapidShare and MediaFire.
The best thing is, it doesn't cost a penny to you! All you need to do is PM me and I'll set things up and get everything rolling.
I offer storage space of 1GB, 3GB and 5GB. If you're lucky, you can get 10GB, only if I'm in a good mood. If you really need more space, pop me coffee money and I'll give you 25GB. That's enough to make dozens of super fast ROMs.
You'd get a URL like: http://cdn.coburndomain.net/android/<YourXDAUsernameHere>/ .
Current List of Users with ROM Storage:
Kiljacken - 10GB
So yeah, there you go devs! Let the requests flow in!
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What is the best free web hosting out there?
I have tried Sixserve, megabyet, and other smalltime ones who didn't send me a confirmation mail. Sixserve has a lot of ads that skew the formatting of the site, and megabyet has flood control, and my site takes forever to load on most occasions. I can't use a credit card as I'm too young, and my parents are overly paranoid to use their credit card online. I want to use the site as a repo for my upcoming project to cook roms in a package, and also to be my portfolio (I'm also a photographer, and a smalltime video editor) . I want to use Joomla!, or wordpress for my site. Can anyone please guide me on which free web host is the best, or, even better, donate to me a web host. I will do something great in return . You decide.
Why not just use the wordpress hosting? I'm not sure on what sort of restrictions there are on the sites though re content etc.
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Why not just use the wordpress hosting? I'm not sure on what sort of restrictions there are on the sites though re content etc.
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Wordpress hosting does not support 3rd party themes, and I have to pay for CSS editing. Also, no space for my repo. Anyway, thanks.
Oh right, thats pretty lame then!
What kind of space do you think you'd need? Just so someone who possibly has some spare space on there host can give you?
I would help - but do not have any subdomains, nor any space/spare DB's.
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Oh right, thats pretty lame then!
What kind of space do you think you'd need? Just so someone who possibly has some spare space on there host can give you?
I would help - but do not have any subdomains, nor any space/spare DB's.
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I don't need much space for the front-end (the web site), based on my experiences in jumping around free web hosts, I only need 1 MYSQL database, about 100mb is more than enough for the site. However, for the repo, i would need (maybe) a LOT! of space, so that the end-user does not need to download >1gb? of data just to cook a ROM of < 50mb. Oh, the area for the repo should not have flood control enabled, please. TYVM
I guess you gave up on hosting it yourself?
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I guess you gave up on hosting it yourself?
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Yup, becos' the electricity costs involved were humongous, so did the bill (I don't know about your country, but electricity in S'pore is charged at 20-40 Singapore cents per kilowatt, depending on the type of housing; that's equal to about 13-30 US cents!)
You get the idea.
I wouldn't touch free hosting with the proverbial barge-pole, but apparently byethost is alright.
I can't vouch for them, or otherwise, and I would always recommend people use their own dedicated server they have root on (provided they know how to manage a server), or that of someone they trust to run the server for them.
I am not a fan of shared hosting services, but they're obviously very convenient for a lot of people who aren't interested in servers etc. I just think you're better to learn to work on a server, for the day something it goes wrong and you need to use ssh to fix something.
But this doesn't help the OP, who can't pay for hosting, so if you want to try a free host, byethost might be worth a look. No personal recommendation from me btw, just what I've heard from others.
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I wouldn't touch free hosting with the proverbial barge-pole, but apparently byethost is alright.
I can't vouch for them, or otherwise, and I would always recommend people use their own dedicated server they have root on (provided they know how to manage a server), or that of someone they trust to run the server for them.
I am not a fan of shared hosting services, but they're obviously very convenient for a lot of people who aren't interested in servers etc. I just think you're better to learn to work on a server, for the day something it goes wrong and you need to use ssh to fix something.
But this doesn't help the OP, who can't pay for hosting, so if you want to try a free host, byethost might be worth a look. No personal recommendation from me btw, just what I've heard from others.
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I tried the following free web hosts:
Byet
Sixserve
Megabyet
Byet's resellers(e.g: noadsfree, 000a.biz, etc...)
000webhost
Awardspace
Dreamhost
And more
But all... s*ck. All have flood control, which isn't beneficial for WordPress as it will query the MySQL DB 30+ times every time a user loads a web page, hence it will take forever to load the page(Flood control blocks out multiple connections to save bandwidth). Wp-cache did not help either. I am at my wits end now. I would definitely appreciate if someone who has $$$ to spare treat me with a hosting account. AdSense will pay you back when I start up the site. Please..............?
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@arikyeo: Wow you already tested many different web hosts.
I am actually very satisfied with my own web host and until now I had no problems. I can recommend this webhost. Maybe you want to test this one too.
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@arikyeo: Wow you already tested many different web hosts.
I am actually very satisfied with my own web host and until now I had no problems. I can recommend this webhost. Maybe you want to test this one too.
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LOL... This thread was abandoned a long time ago...
Anyway, I'm happy with Heliohost now. Great service, great uptime.
I think the best choice for you is WordPress hosting , specially if your CMS is WordPress .
If you want to use a free web host for WP I recommend Wordpress.com. My recommended web host for Joomla is Freehostia. Just refer to: http://www.freehostia.com/free-joomla-hosting.html. I can understand why someone would choose WP for a small site and it's probably a little easier to administrate than Joomla. But I've always preferred Joomla to WP or other CMS, mostly because I've used it more. Joomla is very good, there's a lot of great free and commercial extensions available, pretty steap learning curve for an administrator though. Drupal is also a great platform to create complex sites, but I'm not a fan of it just because I don't wanna learn another system. Joomla meets all my current requirements. I don't think there's a "best one" of them.... it depends on your goal and technical expertise. There are some useful resources which can help you have a right choice when choosing your needed CMS. I recommend two pages providing a comparison chart of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal: http://www.threehosts.com/ratings/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal.html and http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/cms-comparison-drupal-joomla-and-wordpress. Both present the information in an easy-to-understand format. The best recommendation I can give you is to do some good research on other available products so that when you made your final decision you can stick to it and don't have to change the whole system after some time because this then can get time consuming and causes additional costs. A full list of these programs is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems. But the most popular ones are presented on http://www.simplescripts.com/script_list. Platforms on SimpleScripts are categorized and this helps you make your decision more easily.
Hostinger is the best ever!
Many good subdomains!
Try it
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Best free web hosting for WordPress/ Joomla?
Joomla is a portal- or community type site while WordPress is a blog.
Joomla gives you a lot of power in your hands and that is noticeable in the admin section where there are so many options that you get dizzy the first time you go in. it's having less plugins.
Since WordPress has a logical structure, it is easy for a developer to change things around, place ad banners etc…Again, give preference to a specialized developer used to work with WordPress. its having good and lot more plugin's then Joomla
Joomla’s strength is in complexity which is not useful to beginners
WordPress is simple, you can see it as a blog or as a regular website so, it is very useful to beginners.
From free hosting you can not get all basic services which are required for a beginner. You have to pay a minimum amount for basic things which can you do by best hosting service providers. if you need to suggest some hosting services means go with web host, ubiqhost, hostingshout. you can expect good services from these hosting providers as per my experiences.
Best free web hosting for WordPress/ Joomla?
its been good thing to have such forums, its good news of free hosting over wordpress....i was searching alot for such hosting provider i too went with different hosting providers......but its all conditional.......can you give some more details over these free hosting provision.
The Best Free Web Hosting Services
arikyeo said:
What is the best free web hosting out there?
I have tried Sixserve, megabyet, and other smalltime ones who didn't send me a confirmation mail. Sixserve has a lot of ads that skew the formatting of the site, and megabyet has flood control, and my site takes forever to load on most occasions. I can't use a credit card as I'm too young, and my parents are overly paranoid to use their credit card online. I want to use the site as a repo for my upcoming project to cook roms in a package, and also to be my portfolio (I'm also a photographer, and a smalltime video editor) . I want to use Joomla!, or wordpress for my site. Can anyone please guide me on which free web host is the best, or, even better, donate to me a web host. I will do something great in return . You decide.
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Honestly, there are tons of ways you can host a website free. From the top cloud giants (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) to local hosting start-ups that are looking for ways to scale up their customer base.
Google cloud hosting has an offer of $300 free credit that lets you deploy live websites/application on their cloud platform. Amazon and most cloud giants has similar offers ranging from a month credit to a full year free hosting plan.
While these are solid options, they seem too technical for most persons that are just on the lookout for a test environment to deploy their demo websites.
Assuming your purpose for this search is to get a basic shared hosting with an easy to use control panel, then here are the best options for you.
x10hosting: x10hosting is one of my preferred option for deploying demo web apps in the past. I recommended their services to lots of students who are learning to code and so far, none of them have a single complaint against them. Needless to say; they’re one of your best guys whenever free hosting is the topic of discussion.
FreeHostia: FreeHostia lets you host up to 5 different domain names on their free plan. There’s also 3 free custom domain email accounts and up to 6GB monthly bandwidth on FreeHostia free hosting offer. Even though I do normally prefer Zoho and yandex.connect for free email hosting, the email hosting services from FreeHostia really rocks. There’s certainly no risk in giving them a trial.
AtSpace: AtSpace is another free hosting services offering company with support for webmail, php, mysql database and 1-click WordPress installation tool. Even though I do not strongly recommend their premium plans for best CMS hosting experience, I’d like to say that they are very honest and straight-forward with their platform and pricing scheme.
The ability to upgrade your free web hosting plan from free to premium for a small amount once it starts getting a good traffic is an added advantage that distinguishes them from similar hosting providers.
AtSpace hosting offers 30 days money back guarantee for new clients to let them test their premium servers before deciding to stay or opt-out.
With AtSpace free hosting, there’s zero ads, unmetered bandwidth, custom domain email account and PHP/MySql database access.
4. 000webhost: 000webhost is very popular among student developers as it comes in handy for testing demo websites/apps.
With a free hosting account at 000webhost, you’d get access to the following features:
10 GB of monthly bandwidth limit
1 GB disk space
Free domain name
Free auto installer for WordPress, Drupal, Forums, Joomla and many other scripts
A vibrant website builder
Free Cpanel control
Instant account verification without any charges
5. $1 USD hosting options: Most shared and VPS hosting companies lets you try their hosting packages for only a dollar per month. If your reasons for wanting a free host is to test your local host contents, temporarily deploy a test site for a client or work on short term code testing: Then this option would come in handy. All you’d need do is → Search Google with the $1 hosting keyword to pick any company of your choice from the list.
Note: Most free hosting companies would force you to upgrade as soon as you start getting good traffic. It is better to have a backup plan as soon as your website start getting a good number of daily visits.
PS: Once you’ve outgrown the free hosting offers, look towards any of these reliable shared hosting options or pick from these cheap VPS SSD hosting plans.
PPS: Upgrading to a premium hosting plan offered by the free hosting provider is never a good option. This is because they are mostly over-sold and would affect your website performance in the long run.