February 14, 2004
Curious George: a stupid webhosting question I need a cheap web hosting service with < 500MB of storage, PHP/CGI support, a few mailboxes, and MySQL - not much to ask for. My current host is charging $15 bucks extra a month for MySQL and I'm sure there must be something cheaper. I know nothing about this, but I figure some of you will. Thanks.
I signed up with 1and1.com when they had their free three years promotion and have been very happy.
They have a business account package that meets your requirements for $9.99/mo.
I have a 1and1 account too. For a free service it's nice, but the time for updates is a bit annoying compared to pay for service hosts. Dreamhost has a $9.95 plan and good service. I know a number of people that are using them and I'm going to switch when my current contract is up.
I work for a webhost and am pretty proud of our product, but not comfortable linking in this context unless asked specifically.
I can also recommend dr2.net, whom I use for a side project that I don't care for my employer to have any control over.
150mb, 5gb, php, cpanel, fantastico installer, etc for $40 a year.
Using ICDSoft here. Decent. But will switch to Dreamhost next time.
kuro5hin.org always has tons of textads from webhosting companies.
I recommend dreamhost too. They're not the cheapest, but the give you everything - plenty of space, decent bandwidth, telnet access(!), mysql + loads of other stuff I'll never use.
I use dreamhost and am extremely happy with them, but http://www.globalservers.com/vps_1.htm has a much better deal. I don't need that stuff, but 2 gigs of storage for $14 a month! Can't beat that.
And do all of these have MySQL? That's my most important criterion; I have no idea whether that's considered 'standard' on most web hosting packages or not.
I use lunarpages.com which was nice. 800 megabytes, php, mysql, 40 gb transfer for only 7.95 a month. only thing is that you have to pay it all up front for a full year.
Mfpb, it's totally a standard these days to have some sort of database. Your current hostng company is really out of touch, and ripping you off for making you pay anything extra at all.
Mfpb -
I had looked into domain hosting about a year ago, and decided that once my current host notices that they are giving me free service (they have not billed me for over a year and a half), I would have to switch. I dislike my current host enough to switch, but I'm not complaining if they're going to give me free service.
Once of the hosting companies that I looked into was Blue Box Internet. They have a plan that you would like, for $9.95 per month (less if you pay quarterly or annually)
http://blueboxinternet.com/web-pro.php
Thanks guys. These are all MUCH better alternatives. Greatly appreciated!
I just switched (two months ago) to OnSmart.com's shared hosting plan, and it's nothing short of brilliant. $11.50 monthly, $7.50/mo yearly -- my MySQL queries return faster, unlimited databases/subdomains/etc. Perhaps the greatest thing is 24-hour live chat tech support.
No one mentioned it here, but there were a few votes for phpwebhosting.com in a similar Ask Mefi thread a week or two back -- I just switched from them because I'd been having tons of trouble (db crashes, tech support request form crashes, and so forth).
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