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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 contract).
Such a site 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 definitely close
to impossible with Vdeck). That means that a lot of successful sites
quickly outgrow "basic" model and need an upgrade to "shared hosting". Among
some decent providers in no particular
order:
- 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. BlueHost
one of the leader of plans with SSH access.
- HostMonster
provides $3.95 plans.
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Hostican have a very good plan with ssh for just $7 per month.
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DreamHost offers 7.99 plan with ssh (this price comes
with two years commitment). They use Debian. They have
a good sense of humor and propose 5.99 a month plan if you sign
for to 10 years ;-)
- HostGator is
another popular webhosting provider with SSH access. $4.95
per month
- Fastdomain
has $5.95 plans.
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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!
- 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:
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:
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is not a native language.
Some amount of grammar and spelling errors should be
expected.
- The site contain some broken links
as it develops like a living tree...
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A very interesting promotion ;-). That's $24 a month with
a free domain ($10 per year), Dollar hosting ?
In the race to the bottom nay sites now offer $3.99 hosting
plans.
It's OK provider. $10 per month with ssh access.
1&1 Business : Includes 3 domains;
250 GB web space; 2,500 e-mail accounts; 2,500 GB monthly transfer volume;
50 MySQL Database
Limited
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term
Solo XP $7.46/mo plan with ssh. BSD-based.
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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.
ldcdc
Community Liaison
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 12,572
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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.
They provide simething like jails.
At WestHost, we provide SSH
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to control Web and other kinds of servers remotely. SSH commands are
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connection are authenticated using a digital certificate, and passwords
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With WestHost Virtual Private Server (VPS Hosting) Technology, also
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- Full control of the web server configuration (Apache), including
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- Full control of MySQL configuration.
- Full control of most Perl modules.
You also have access to other miscellaneous configuration files within
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web
hosting plans. Secure Shell (SSH), sometimes known as Secure Socket
Shell, is a UNIX-based command interface and protocol for securely getting
access to a remote computer. 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.
- Full control of most Perl modules.
You also have access to other miscellaneous configuration files within
your account and a greater ability to install and run custom software
(should you choose to).
Uses jails or similar technology
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(root-like)
- Independent Secure
Environment
- Dedicated Web Server
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$7.77 per month
- PHP, JSP, ASP, Perl PHP, JSP*, ASP* & PERL
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Storage
- Toll-free Telephone Support
- 5 Gigabytes Bandwidth per DAY
- FTP Access FTP Access
- MS Front Page Hosting Microsoft FrontPage™
Visit
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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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POP3 Email
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1000 |
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Forwarding
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Unlimited |
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Email Autoresponder |
Unlimited |
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Gigs of Site
Transfer (NOW MORE!) |
75
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Add-on Domains |
5 |
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Parked Domains |
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Subdomains |
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FTP Accounts |
1000 |
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MySQL Databases |
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FTP Access |
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Override .htaccess
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Anonymous FTP |
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Site Stats |
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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
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Fantastico
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PLUG-IN SCRIPTS |
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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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Blogs) |
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Image Galleries |
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Poll/Survey |
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Web Auctions |
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INCLUDED |
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Shopping 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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Video |
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Shockwave |
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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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SITE PROMOTION |
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.
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www.yourdomain.com |
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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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