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Cheap Web hosting with SSH access
There are three major classes of cheap hosting:
- Basic (no ssh access). Reasonable "basic" site without ssh can be
hosted for approximately $5-$6 month (we assume two year contact). It
probably never exceeds 30-40G in traffic per month and a 500M-1G
of disk space (if we assume that the main method of updating the site is ftp
download of new/changed files. Small sites (up to 500M of mostly static
content) can be managed very well within the limitations of this model. We will
not discuss this model on this page.
- Shared (ssh access on a server shared with other users). Shared hosting
with ssh access should probably cost twice as much as "basic" as it double the
troubles ;-)(that means for $5-$6 a month) with the same traffic requirements
as "cheap" sites. If it exceeds it is either not reasonable for "cheap"
hosting :-). To provide more traffic then 30-40G a month for such a low price
is in general incompatible with high reliability and fast response. Either
should suffer. If you truly want reliability and good uptime, you need to raise
your budget, or to lower your bandwidth requirements.
Many providers cater to this segment. And the demand is high: it is really
difficult to maintain a complex or large (over 100M of content) website without
shell access even is you do not need a lot of server side scripting; it is
definitly close to impossible with Vdeck). That means that a lot of successful sites quickly
outgrow "basic" model and need an upgrade to "shared hosting". Many providers
are catering to this category. Among them in no particular order:
- Hostican
have a very good plan with ssh for just $7 per month.
- DreamHost
offers 7.99 plan with ssh (this price comes with two years commitment).
They use Debian.
- Crucial Paradigm
I know nothing about them but I like the statement:
If you are looking for the cheapest deal, with the most web space
then you have come to the wrong place. We
pride ourselves in offering a high level of technical support and providing
our customers value in this way rather than ridiculous offerings of
space which could under no circumstances be offered for that price.
Don't get caught up in marketing gimmicks which offer large amounts
of space just because they think you won't use it!
- Bluehost offering a single plan with ssh that
fit the needs of most "cheap" websites. No set up fees. Also I noted that
it got into Netcraft top dozen of most reliable ISPs at least once for the
last year.
- Virtualized (usually light-weight virtualization like Solaris zones or
BSD jails). As for light-weight virtualization it dramatically raise the
bar for server memory requirements and memory cost money. A lot of money if
we are talking about, say 32G (which is just approximately 60 users with 512M
quota each). An average server for virtual hosting should have at least dual
CPUs Intel 5160-CPUs with 32G of memory and two 300G drives that means that
hardware cost are approximately $5000. If we assume full depreciation in in
three years then without the cost of bandwidth you need to get $136 a month
just to get even. If you sell accounts for $7 a month then you need to get approximately
20 users per server just to compensate for hardware costs. If you need to pay
staff, electricity bills, rent and pay for bandwidth that means you need more
then triple the number of users per server. That means that to provide
light-weight virtualization you need at least to double the costs of access
with shh and that means that a reasonable range is around $20-$40 a month.
Due to competition ISPs are tremendously squeezed and that creates
difficulties with using virtual machines, even lightweight (jails) as they consume
a lot of additional memory. Honest providers provide the memory siae they guarantee
in light-virtual partitions. I thing that minimum is around 256M.
You need to run at least Apache, cron, and syslogd (sshd can be run via
Inetd). Without tuning Apache 2 processes consumes several hundreds (!!) of
Mbytes. See
SOLVING APACHE MEMORY BOTTLENECK GoingOn Home
First
of all you need to run your separate instance of Apache which consumes memory.
Also you need your own ssh server. That means that each user need to duplicate
basic set of daemons. All-in-all this is difficult segment of hosting
business.
Still there are a couple of ISPs that stick to this model:
- Westhost is one of the few ISPs which
uses this approach and for advanced users this is probably the most flexible
low cost solution of the market. They use Red Hat 4.
- $7 per month for two years +$20 setup or $9 per quarter + $20 setup.
(Personal starter plan)
- There are also several Solaris-based offering were you can get your
own zone. See Solaris Hosting.
For example
Gridzones.com
provides pretty reasonable pricing:
- 2GB Disk Space +10GB Bandwidth +64MB RAM
$10/mo
- 5GB Disk Space +50GB Bandwidth +128MB RAM
$20/mo
- 10GB Disk Space +100GB Bandwidth +256MB RAM
$35/mo
- 20GB Disk Space + 150GB Bandwidth +512MB RAM
$60/mo
- 50GB Disk Space + 400GB Bandwidth + 1GB RAM
$100/mo
As you see those three types of services differ in costs with approximately doubling
it on each upgrade.
Not let's discuss relibility. Most of the web hosts promised 99.9% uptime, but
few deliver what they promise. If you need high reliability generally you
might be better off with ISPs which do not provide ssh support. It's easier to have
99.5% uptime ( 5 day down out of 1000 or approximately one day a year) when the
servers aren't stressed with dynamic content and mostly serve static pages. Promises
of 99.9% are pure marketing. For hosts with ssh expect 99.1-99.5% reliability:
anywhere from a day to a week downtime in a year. BTW one percent of
downtime a year (a very low number) means 87.5 hours of downtime. Also FreeBSD might
somewhat beat Linux as for stability although this is not directly visible from
Netcraft reports. Here the amount of efforts in achieving given level of stability
is not counted and as we all know with enough thrust pigs can fly.
Again the highest stability is achievable for ISPs which do not provide ssh access
but the limitations of VDECK (a popular hosting
solution; I have no experience with
Cpanel) mean that such ISPs
are unusable for more or less advanced user even if his needs are pretty modest.
I would like to stress it again that VDECK user interface is a horribly written
program that have all the attraction of a student project and that does not have
any sound architecture and IMHO no bright programmers behind it. Functionality is
very very basic even if we take into account the goal of achieving stability and
preventing users from doing stupid things. Many things like site backup are horribly
engineered if we can talk about this as engineering. This is a essentially a dummy
tool for dummies.
For almost static content achieving 99.5% reliability is possible but as soon
as server has a lot of PHP, MySQL or java applications such an environment reliability
usually became dramatically lower. Also it is more difficult to provide a decent
response. If you want to run Java applications you are essentially out of cheap
hosting and will be better off with a private virtual machine or an actual server
and that means that the realistic price is no less then $100 per month. On
the other side light-virtual machines also can provide pretty high reliability.
Full blown (heavy-weight) virtual machines (VMware) and paravirtualization (Xen)
also can provide high reliability but they are not that efficient in ISP environment.
Here is one insightful quote from
How is WestHost - WebHostingTalk Forums
...and no VPS software is capable of virtualization anywhere
nearly as efficient as hardware... a user will get free access to resources
on a shared account (because the shared account is "hard wired" to the hardware).
By contrast, they will be bottle-necked right right from the start by virtualization
"overhead" on a VPS. Usually VPS clients do not realize just how slowly their
sites are crawling along until they get back on a decent (well-powered, not
overloaded) shared server or on their own dedicated. The virtualization takes
a lot more out of performance than VPS providers want you to realize.
There are very, very few reasons why a site NEEDS a VPS. Examples might be a
doctor or a lawyer who want a stand-alone OS and tight access control due to
stringent security requirements. However, a doctor and a lawyer can both afford
a decent (large) VPS or a small dedicated to accomplish this task, they wouldn't
waste their time or money on a $4 plan... ;-)
Paying attention to the "numbers game of disk space
and bandwidth" is called Web Hosting Business 101. A host that
is not attentive to their numbers is setting themselves up for disaster. Disk
space and bandwidth are an important part of the formula that determines
- (a) costs and therefore
- (b) how much to charge.
Hope my insight is helpful. :-)
Now let's discuss bandwidth. First of all large bandwidth cost a lot of money.
There is no free lunch and DC3 lines are not cheap and they are limited to 45Mbps
or approximately 5M/sec or 300M per minute or 20G per hour. If you assume that 80%
of bandwidth is used during day hours (let's say 8 to 5) you have 500G per day or
15,000G per month.
DS3 product is designed to handle the most bandwidth-intensive applications.
A DS3 (or T3) is a digital communications link that supports data
transmission rates of about 43-45Mbps. A DS3 line actually consists of 672
individual channels, each of which supports 64Kbps.
The cost is approximately from $5,000 to $15,000 per month depending on distance to provider
and other factors. If you have 1000 users on one DS3 line your minimal per user cost is around
$5 and per user limit is around 15G per month. Of course not all users can
utilize such bandwidth so for ISP that uses the quote of 1000 users per one DS3
line it is reasonably safe to advertise, say, 30-50G
per month per user. But you should beware providers which advertise exceedingly large quotas
for bandwidth, the quotas that exceed informal quotas listed above by a very large
margin. If you see that somebody promise 500G per month for less then $10
this probably can be classified as a misleading advertising: that's almost 20G a day or almost
2G in work time hours if we assume 10 hours (say 8-6) to be a "work time";
realistically that should cost $500 a month. Traffic is a very expensive thing for an ISP and
with "wildly of mark" quotas if somebody abuses the hospitality
all users suffer.
Notes:
- Those pages are written by people for
whom English is not a native language.
Some amount of grammar and spelling errors should be expected.
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According to an e-mail sent out to many Dreamhost clientele earlier today
there have been over 3,500+ hosting accounts exploited at Dreamhost.
The suspected entry point into the accounts was most likely password sniffing
however there are many other rumors surrounding the event.
This exploit quickly followed a recent exploit of IPowerWeb that resulted
in the defacement of over 35% of the IPowerWeb clientbase. Earlier this year
exploits affected Hostgator & many other large providers whose systems were
rooted.
A copy of the e-mail sent out by the dreamhost team is below:
From: DreamHost Security Team
Subject: URGENT: FTP Account Security Concerns…
This email is regarding a potential security concern related to your ‘XXXX’
FTP account.
We have detected what appears to be the exploit of a number of accounts
belonging to DreamHost customers, and it appears that your account was one
of those affected.
We’re still working to determine how this occurred, but it appears that
a 3rd party found a way to obtain the password information associated with
approximately 3,500 separate FTP accounts and has used that information
to append data to the index files of customer sites using automated scripts
(primarily for search engine optimization purposes).
Our records indicate that only roughly 20% of the accounts accessed -
less than 0.15% of the total accounts that we host - actually had any changes
made to them. Most accounts were untouched.
We ask that you do the following as soon as possible:
- Immediately change your FTP password, as well as that of
any other accounts that may share the same password. We recommend the
use of passwords containing 8 or more random letters and numbers. You
may change your FTP password from the web panel (”Users” section, “Manage
Users” sub-section).
- Review your hosted accounts/sites and ensure that nothing has been
uploaded or changed that you did not do yourself. Many of the unauthorized
logins did not result in changes at all (the intruder logged in, obtained
a directory listing and quickly logged back out) but to be sure you
should carefully review the full contents of your account.
Again, only about 20% of the exploited accounts showed any modifications,
and of those the only known changes have been
to site index documents (ie. ‘index.php’, ‘index.html’, etc
- though we recommend looking for other changes as well).
It appears that the same intruder also attempted
to gain direct access to our internal customer information database,
but this was thwarted by protections we have in place to prevent such access.
Similarly, we have seen no indication that the intruder accessed other customer
account services such as email or MySQL databases.
In the last 24 hours we have made numerous significant behind-the-scenes
changes to improve internal security, including the discovery and patching
to prevent a handful of possible exploits.
We will, of course, continue to investigate the source of this particular
security breach and keep customers apprised of what we find. Once we learn
more, we will be sure to post updates as they become available to our status
weblog: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/
Thank you for your patience. If you have any questions or concerns, please
let us know.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and
statistics."
-Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
... Convinced you can do better than 99.9%, you search for another hosting provider.
You finally settle on one that offers an additional "nine" or 99.99% uptime
per month. No more than 4 minutes of downtime.
Before you get too excited, let's see where that extra nine comes from by examining
the concept of monitoring interval. The monitoring interval is how often your
hosted server is checked to make sure everything is working A-OK. Think of it
as the lines on a ruler. It's going to be pretty hard to measure down to one
eighth of an inch if your ruler only has one inch lines on it.
Suppose your application is monitored every 15 minutes. Now say your server
is rebooted. If the monitor runs while the server is down, your server will
show as down for 15 minutes, even though it only takes 3 minutes to reboot.
If the monitor misses the reboot window, it won't show as being down at all.
A provider that offers 99.99% must have a small enough monitoring interval that
it can measure down to the nearest .01%. How small is that exactly? Let's break
it down using the shortest month:
28 days x 24 hours/day x 60 minutes/hour x .0001 = 4.03 minutes
A service provider must provide a monitoring interval of no more than 4 minutes
to provide a 99.99% uptime guarantee.
... ... ...
Always make a distinction between business hours and after hours. You should
have different availability requirements for each period, even if your application
is used 24x7. Next, create your goal using words and whole numbers, not percentages.
For example:
- Zero downtime during business-critical periods.
- No more than 2 unscheduled downtime incidents per month of no more than
5 minutes per incident during after hours periods.
- No more than 1 scheduled maintenance period per month of no more than
30 minutes during after hours periods.
- Monitoring interval of 5 minutes.
- Monitor key aspects of the application, not the server.
- Independent third-party monitoring from multiple locations.
After defining exactly what your availability goals are, you can now strive
to achieve it. The difference now is that your goal is 100% achievable. That's
a statistic you can count on.
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IMO, there's a difference between resources and features. Your VPS approach
results in more features/control over the hosting environment (certainly
a plus), but the $4 will (on average) entitle the customer to ~$4 worth
of server resources.
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Ranking by Failed Requests and Connection time,
May 1st - 31st 2007
Dreamhost may look tempting, but their whole business model
is a lie. In reality, you do not receive anything near the number of bandwidth
or storage space they offer because they will start limiting you either
1) directly(by email and then placing a cap on you) or
2) indirectly(by moving you to another server where it's incredibly slow, it
took upwards of 17 seconds for anything to appear. And then another 10 seconds
just for you to finish downloading the page).
I have used the $9.95, $39.95, and $79.95 plan that dreamhost offered. If you
try to contact support, they will just tell "everything's fine" as your site
slowlyyyyyy loads up.
If you have a small website: There are cheaper alternatives than dreamhost.
If you have a medium sized website: You can use dreamhost, but expect very slow
pageloads because dreamhost crams well over a thousand virtual servers on one
machine.
If you have a large sized website: Forget it, go elsewhere. Dreamhost is nothing
but a dream, and at best a nightmare at that.
Well, I've been with Dreamhost for over a
year now (almost 15 months I think) on their cheap "Crazy Domain Insane" program,
and I never got around to thanking this forum for helping me find a host provider.
So I thought I would post my review of Dreamhost
in hopes that it will be useful to someone out there, much like many of the
posts were useful for me when I was searching for a host.
The summary: Dreamhost has been great for me,
though I might not be your typical user. If you know what you are doing and
don't have heavy MySQL (I've heard from others that can be slow)
Dreamhost will likely be great for your needs.
OK on to the details...
Uptime
Uptime has generally been great. They got hit with a huge DDoS attack the first
few months I was there which took them down for 8+ (24+ maybe?) hours. Their
response to this was what first made me think that these guys were great. Not
only did they have a detailed explanation of what went wrong, they also listed
the steps they were taking to prevent it from happening again and
learning from the experience. Also, if nothing else, they haven't gone down
due to a DDoS since.
One of the things they promised was an offsite status page so customers could
get updates even if the main Dreamhost network
was offline. Two days later, this site was up and running. Big deal, you say...
getting a
web site up is something I do in my sleep. Well, me too. But I'm not a big
corporation with lots of red tape. I appreciated the fact that
Dreamhost could implement changes quickly.
Other than that one period of extended downtime, uptime has generally been good.
They had a problem at one point where my
server was crashing every night, but that was resolved within a few days.
I ssh into my account, and it's not too uncommon for my shell to remain connected
for over a week. (Eventually something will come up, either general net latency,
I need to reboot, etc.)
Customer Support
I haven't had much need for their customer support, but I have contacted them
a few times. Here is the full list of why I contacted them, including initial
(non-automated) response time. The first line is me to them. The second is them
to me:
Feb 12th, 2004 - 11:59:04 :: My weblog stat script didn't run
Feb 12th, 2004 - 14:55:52 :: DB problem, should be fixed
Feb 26th, 2004 - 18:36:40 :: My server has been rebooted 4 times today
Feb 27th, 2004 - 05:32:17 :: We're looking into the problem
Mar 14th, 2004 - 17:13:55 :: My server is rebooting daily
Mar 14th, 2004 - 21:02:50 :: We know there is an issue, trying to fix
Mar 29th, 2004 - 17:46:18 :: I can't access my machine at all
Mar 29th, 2004 - 20:39:18 :: We got DDoS'd. Sorry about that.
Jan 21st, 2005 - 17:16:03 :: Billing question
Jan 21st, 2005 - 17:23:39 :: Billing answer
Jan 31st, 2005 - 16:39:18 :: Web server crashed
Jan 31st, 2005 - 17:03:11 :: It got rebooted and should be working now
Feb 7th, 2005 - 10:41:44 :: New site access logs aren't being written
Feb 7th, 2005 - 12:01:23 :: There was a synch issue, should be fixed now.
Feb 22nd, 2005 - 16:27:44 :: I need a perl module installed
Feb 22nd, 2005 - 16:31:40 :: OK, installed.
Looking at the customer support logs, you might wonder how I can say that uptime
is great given the tickets I created. One of the things to realize is that I'm
on that shell account almost all the time -- all during the day, and many nights
as well. If it's on the weekend or while I'm asleep, I won't notice right away,
but I'll notice the broken connection as soon as I get back to my computer.
The Feb 26 and Mar 14 incidents didn't cause extended downtime. I was more annoyed
at my shell being dropped and losing httpd for the 2 min or so it took the machine
to reboot. The Jan 31 incident resulted in under 2 hours of downtime.
I'll leave it for you to judge whether the response time is adequate. It was
fine for me, but I'm not the most impatient person out there.
Features
This is where Dreamhost really shines. Their
control panel is nice, but that's not what I cared about. Full shell account,
emacs, cron, perl scripts, full .htaccess support -- everything I wanted to
do I could do. When I needed a CPAN perl module installed, they installed it
quickly with no hassle.
I did have a minor problem where after I created a DB user, I was unable to
change the password via the control panel. But that's a pretty minor problem.
Reponse Time
None of my sites or scripts rely heavily on a MySQL database, and I've heard
some people complain of MySQL slowness. Personally I haven't had any problems.
I keep track of load average fairly often (especially when I am writing new
scripts to make sure they aren't too draining on CPU), and even at peak the
load average on my machine is around 2-3, spiking to 5 once in a while. I've
never seen it sustained in the double digits, though of course, I might just
be on a lucky machine.
Caveats / A Little about Me
I know there is a tendency to not trust people with low post counts (like me).
I posted a bit a year or so ago when I was looking for a host... and then I
found one, and didn't really have much of a reason to post again.
I run several different scripts/sites. Almost all of them are accessible by
going to my domain at:
http://www.cardplace.com
These scripts run either on PHP or Perl and many of them connect to a MySQL
database in some way.
As a caveat, I don't come anywhere close to the 120gig limitation on bandwidth.
I consider myself a "power-user" in terms of taking advantage of the features
that dreamhost offers, but I'm also careful to
play nice and not hog system resources. I don't need a lot of customer support
(as an aside I did find Dreamhost's Knowledgebase very useful) and I'm happy
to be just left alone with good connectivity.
In summary, I love Dreamhost. If you have similar
needs to mine, I think you'll love it too. If you have different needs, I still
hope this post has been informative for you. I won't go out there and proclaim
that any one host is the end-all-be-all for all people. But I certainly have
nothing negative to say about them.
I hope this helps someone. I'll monitor this thread for a few days, so if anyone
has specific questions post away and I'll answer.
Thanks again for providing a great forum -- when I was searching for a host,
the sheer number of host providers out there was seriously daunting, and this
forum really helped me narrow down my choices.
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With WestHost Virtual Private Server (VPS Hosting) Technology, also known
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interesting information
SSH hosting provider selection
webmin - Web Search
The Web Hosting Guide looks like
an advertising site.
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plans. Secure Shell (SSH), sometimes known as Secure Socket Shell, is a UNIX-based
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It is widely used by network administrators to control Web and other kinds of
servers remotely. SSH commands are encrypted and secure in several ways. Both
ends of the client/server connection are authenticated using a digital certificate,
and passwords are protected by being encrypted.
With WestHost Virtual Private Server (VPS Hosting) Technology, also known
as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS Hosting) technology, a web server is divided
into multiple isolated environments. Each environment has its own server software
providing independence for that website. Any compromise to a site would only
affect that WestHost VPS and could not affect any other site on the same server.
As with a dedicated server, each WestHost VPS has its own independent operating
system with it's own web server, mail server and independent software instances.
A crashed application (Apache, Sendmail, MySQL etc.) in another client's WestHost
VPS has no effect on your WestHost VPS.
What may be even more appealing is that with WestHost VPS web hosting, you
have nearly full control over the most common areas of a website/server. This
includes:
- Full control of the web server configuration (Apache), including PHP,
mod_perl, and other server-side technologies and modules.
- Full control of the e-mail server (Sendmail) configuration.
- Full control of MySQL configuration.
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You also have access to other miscellaneous configuration files within your
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Powweb
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$7.77 per month
- PHP, JSP, ASP, Perl PHP, JSP*, ASP* & PERL
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- Toll-free Telephone Support
- 5 Gigabytes Bandwidth per DAY
- FTP Access FTP Access
- MS Front Page Hosting Microsoft FrontPage™
Visit
www.powweb.com for more details
About the
company:
PowWeb, Inc. is a privately owned, debt-free company that got started in the
Web hosting business in 1999 geared towards helping individuals and business
establish a presence on the internet all with one flexible plan. Their infrastructure
is uniquely their own, built and developed in-house. Their customer service
is also done in-house and never outsourced. Their reputation as one of the top
hosting companies is proven with their massive community and hosted sites, along
with being a part of the online BBB reliability program.
Powweb Plan
Rather inundate potential web hosting customers with a variety of plans and
features, PowWeb has devised a simple and easy to assess "one plan, one price"
web hosting offer that gives plenty of web storage space (1,000 MB),
more than enough bandwidth (5 GB/Day Transfer), and a rich array of Control
Panel features for one price,
$7.77. This single and robust package also includes 10 FTP separate user
accounts, 650 POP3 mail boxes that utilize SMTP or IMAP, web based Mail, SSL,
PHP4, MySQL and many other features that will no doubt attract the attention
of serious web hosting customers. Add to that a 1 year free domain name (with
one year payment) and a 30-day money back guarantee and most webmasters can
plainly see the strong value the PowWeb plan offers.
Statement
from web hosting provider:
"PowWeb is excited and confident about the future. Despite the fact that
many Internet companies are currently experiencing difficulties and going bankrupt,
we are growing faster than ever! While others think it can't be done, we continue
to provide a high level of services at an inexpensive cost. We look forward
to hosting your website, and we are determined to providing you with the perfect
hosting solution!"
Powweb hosting
benefits:
Even I must agree that with their single package plan of 1,000 mb of web space
and 5 gb daily bandwidth -- yes that's right, daily bandwidth which can equate
to around
150 gb of monthly bandwidth for only $7.77 -- management and overhead costs
are simplified and in result relays the savings to the customer. The support
and feature rich control panel are only a part of the valuable resources available
for Powweb's customers to let their sites flourish.
One of the great
aspects of Powweb Web Hosting is there great community forum. Most powweb customers
participate in this forum and is agreat reflection of the services Powweb provides.
Our Final Say on Powweb -
Click Here for a detailed Powweb Review
This is one of the few older generation hosting companies that's survived
the fall. They know what customers seek and know the service and level of support
to provide that's needed for a growing relationship in the hosting business.
Their hosting plan is perfect for both individuals and businesses as you are
assured a high level of space and bandwidth to maintain the largest of sites.
Their infrastructure is world-class and and their own, so rest assured that
any server issue that comes up will be solved by their own hands and can give
immediate notice to customers. That is the kind of support only the top hosting
companies can provide, and Powweb stays true to form with their perfect hosting
solution.
Bluehost is a great service when it works, however it doesn't seem to have
worked for me so far! ... Shortly afer I signed up with them (a few weeks ago)
the server which was holding my account crashed, resulting in a fragmentation
problem and a long period of downtime and broken stats. The stats problem still
haven't been fixed over a week after bringing it to their attention, apparently
they have "other issues that have taken precidence" (sic). If a company has
a good customer service, then surely ALL customer problems should take precedence?
... Then I learn that people cannot send any messages with attachments to my
bluehost account without having them returned by the bluehost mailserver, yet
funnily enough, when someone attempts to send me a virus there, it gets through!
... Overall, very poor so far, hope it improves!
In fairness to them, they did solve my problems fairly swiftly initially, however
that was before they received my payment!
...Paul
Bluehost enters the arena
by offering rich features and low pirce, just like what
midPhase
is doing, and trying to beat the top hosts like
iPowerWeb
,
LunarPages
, Globat, and StartLogic. BlueHost offers 1 GB web space, 50 GB bandwidth
trasnfer, 1000 pop accounts, 150 virtual hosts, 20 subdomains, 10 MySQL databases,
PHP, CGI, SSI, Cpanel control panel, Free search engine submission, Free domain
name, free setup fee, and Toll-free support. All these features are only $6.95
per month. Compare with
LunarPages
, startlogic has SSL offer, and shopping cart options, which does not offered
in the Lunarpage's shuttle plan (but do offered in the Lunarpage Voyager plan
which is must more expensive). And also offers sub-domain and domainn parking,
just liek Lunarpage does.
Globat
offers more space and bandwidth, but
Globatlacks
shopping cart, sub-domain, and shares SSL. Bluehost also offers SSH access,
which does not offered by most of the top hosts.
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Support International
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POP3 Email Accounts/Web
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1000 |
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Forwarding Email Accounts |
Unlimited |
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Email Autoresponder |
Unlimited |
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Gigs of Site Transfer
(NOW MORE!) |
75 GB/mo |
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Add-on Domains |
5 |
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Parked Domains |
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Subdomains |
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MySQL Databases |
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CGI-BIN |
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Perl Support |
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Server Side Includes |
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FTP Access |
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Override .htaccess
Support |
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Anonymous FTP |
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Email) |
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Customizable Error
Pages |
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Web File Manager |
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Custom Cronjobs |
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Hotlink Protection |
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Spam Assassin Protection |
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Fantastico Script Support |
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SCRIPTS |
INCLUDED |
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Bulletin Board (Message
Forum) |
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Form-mail Script |
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PHP Nuke |
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Guestbook |
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Chat |
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Bloggers (Web Blogs) |
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Mailing Lists |
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Image Galleries |
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Poll/Survey |
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Web Auctions |
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Help Center/Support
Ticket |
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INCLUDED |
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SSL Secure Server |
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Cart |
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Agora Shopping Cart |
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Free Generated Certificate |
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Password Protected
Directories |
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INCLUDED |
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Video |
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Audio |
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Flash Support |
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Macromedia Shockwave |
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Add Own MIME Types |
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WORLD CLASS TECHNOLOGY |
INCLUDED |
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High Performance Xeon
Servers |
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Customized Apache Web
Server |
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UPS Power Back-up,
Diesel Back-up
Generator |
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24/7 Network Monitoring |
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Mirrored Storage Backups |
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OC-48 Backbone Connection |
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INCLUDED |
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Search Engine Submission |
FREE |
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Search Keyword Analyzer |
FREE |
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Search Engine Position
Report |
FREE |
Bluehost offerse everything I wanted at a low price.
They give you 5 add-on domains but the downside with that is that only the main
domain can have fantastico, email, and custom error pages. Another downpoint
is that their online live support is never up. Also they only offer one plan.
Everything else is absolutely great! Overall they are better than Total Choice
Hosting and startlogic.
This host is great. They let you host multiple domains
under 1 account for no extra charge. They also answer their phone right away.
No huge wait times like I got from Ipowerweb.com. Highly recommended.
Hosting Comparison BlueHost Review BlueHost Shared Unix Hosting
BlueHost takes a one-plan-fits-all approach to hosting, and it will
certainly fit many. There are the usual ammenities (Perl, PHP, MySQL,
SSI, etc.), the Fantastico script library, commerce features such as
a choice of shopping cart and SSL support, and secure email. You also
get a free domain registration with a one-year or longer pre-payment.
On top of it all,
BlueHost has a solid reputation for good service, unlike some other
inexpensive providers out there.
If their plan fits your needs,
BlueHost is a fantastic choice.
Note: If the convenience of one-plan hosts appeal of you, you might
also check out our reviews of
SimpleHost and
PowWeb. Other decent one-plan hosts are
Servage,
iNovoHost, and
4CheapHosting.Net.
Comparison Chart @ 1&1 Internet Inc. $5, 1G 25G
• 800 MB Disk Space
• 25 GB Bandwidth
• As low as $4.95
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Disk Space |
400 MB |
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Transfer Space |
10 GB per month |
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Subdomains |
Unlimited |
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Control Panel |
Demo |
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Setup Fee |
$0.00 |
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Monthly Fee |
$2.99 |
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Infinology |
94.50% |
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