$7.77 host

[ksfhhllp]

Cheap host. $7.77/mo, 100mb space, 12gb transfer.

Seems relatively cheap!
Any experiences?

PowWeb

 

[bigrash]

sounds like they're pretty good! anyone have experience with them?

 

[tsee]

"PowWeb Inc. is a privately owned, profitable, and debt-free Web hosting company."

I like the sound of that! I wish it had JSP support though. How come it's so hard to find one that does?

 

[Servanya]

Seems like a pretty good deal.
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I have always wondered how web hosting companies do it. Do they just have a few Apache servers with hundreds of VirtualHost directives? Anyone know?
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[cantstop]

I prefer free:

www.tripod.com

 

[ksfhhllp]

Uhhh... some people don't like popups and banner ads.

Take your flame elsewhere.

 

[catrats]

Hosturbo offers 100MB of space also but only 2GB of traffic for $20/yr. That's not a typo -- that's the annual fee and no setup fee. Comes to less than $2/month. Only catch, if you can call it that, is the fact that they are headquartered in the country of India but their hosting servers are in Pennsylvania. If you read their pre-sales FAQ, they explain why they have this arrangement. Take it as you will but I figured I would pass it along.

 

[J-Dub]

PowWeb might be good if you don't need any databases... They offer unlimited MySQL databases, but you need to pay a $30 setup fee per database.

Another potential drawback (for me anyway) is that they don't offer multiple domain hosting under one account. They can only point additional domain names to the default account index file (for an additional $25 per domain).

 

[dongky]

how about this warm deal...
catalog.com -- $35/yr domain registration + free hosting forever (20MB)

<^> netzero

 

[aphex]

Check out getsite.com too... Ive been hosted there for about 2 years now. $8.25 for a pretty good amout of space and transfer.

 

[bigrash]

anyone have any experience with Hosturbo? They're cheap, but it sounds too good to be true. Are they slow or something?

 

[tsee]

Yeah, how can Hosturbo sell "HTML, PHP 4.04 with Zend Optimizer, mySQL 3.23.24, Perl 5.6, CGI-BIN Support, Sendmail Support, SSI Support" all for less than $2/mo!?

 

[FlippyBoy]

the one thing im looking for is imap servers. all these hosts offer 50 or 100 email accounts, but its always on a pop3 server. or if they do offer imap server email accounts, its for extra money. find me a cheap host that offers imap email accounts, and ill show you a........person who has a website....

 

[catrats]

<< find me a cheap host that offers imap email accounts, and ill show you a........person who has a website.... >>



Heh. I like that, flippyboy.

Anyway, back to Hosturbo for a minute. I'm not here to promote them since I don't even have a web site with them. This is a web hosting service I ran across about 6 months ago while helping a friend. He was just looking for a simple (and yes, cheap) hosting service where he could share family photos. Since he's obviously still with them, he must be content with them. Definitely, not as troublesome as some previous web hosting services he had where they would randomly take down the web server for "upgrades" they were doing.

The only other thing I wanted to mention was that for less than $2 a month, it really isn't that great of a loss (for most of you) if you weren't happy. Granted, it would probably make some people feel better if they had a 30-day guarantee or something. Just make sure you define your needs and if they meet them, give them a try. This "deal" obviously isn't meant for everyone.

 

[tsee]

Regarding Hosturbo, I'd actually not feel much more secure with a money-back guarantee, since if they're really bad you may be able to dispute it with the credit card company. So after 2 months, you can't decide to dispute. That's in the worst case $10 a month, since you're paying annually. Right? That's not bad at all... Hmm...

 

[tsee]

Check out Bravenet webhosting, which basically is 0catch
which offers free web AND DOMAIN hosting!

 

[olson2cm]

I've always liked Hostonce.com. $5 a month for Windows 2000 Hosting (I believe they have UNIX hosting now too!!) for unlimited transfer, unlimited space, unlimited email accounts, and a free domain name. They also let you have up to 12 subdomains if I remember correctly. I've hosted some stuff there in the past and they are great. Fast hosting, no noticible downtime, and great service. Oh, and of course no ad banners or popups

 

[tommigsr]

i've had bad experiences with powweb, as they are slower than what i have right now. try www.hosttyme.com they're a great value also!

 

[noxxic]

One more to check: http://www.directoris.com has a "free" web hosting package - 100MB/2GB/mySQL/PHP4/POP3. It's has a one-time setup fee of $35. I have a low-traffic site with them for a few months now (they were $15 back then btw ) and while they had a pretty f**ked up server a while ago, they seem fine now ever since they moved to a newer server.

 

[austonia]

After reading the posts and looking around, Hostonce.com seems like the best legitimate deal ($5 month/$60 yr) with the free domain and unlimited space/bandwidth. i will let you guys know how speedy the FTP turns out to be. Thanks

Austin

 

[TheDuk]

flippyboy - http://www.directoris.com supports IMAP with it's one time setup fee of $35.

 

[tsee]

Although it's pretty scary how many broken links there are on the directoris.com front page. (click on about us and other links)

 

[FlippyBoy]

thanks, theduk! the only question i have is it says "* 60 POP3 Mailboxes * SMTP/IMAP server." what does that mean? does that mean i can access all of the 60 accounts on the imap server? and tsee, they sem to have fixed the links - maybe it was just a temporary problem. anyway, these gguys are sounding really good to me. anyone else ever use them?