Cheap web hosting
The competition is far ahead customer needs, god knows what to offer to charge customers as hosting is so cheap!
Updated January 2004
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| - text has to be updated sorry - How to choose then?
- For most sites without a direct e-commerce activity a very basic and cheap hosting is enough. A majority of sites use less than 5 Meg (1Mb or 1Mo) disk space (100 full pages already) and a new site stays under 10 Meg (Mb or Mo) traffic for a few months before to rise... if it is valuable and really marketed.
- As soon as you choose your registrar correctly it'll take you a maximum 48h to change of hosting provider, so don't bother too much about their solidity and try it yourself. Cheap hosting providers usually quit the business after a couple of years as they don't make enough money, so be ready to jump for a new one if you choose a cheap one. Cheap hosting for us means less than $15 a year for a full account including PHP and MySql.
- Windows or Linux. Well if you're not tired to have viruses and hackers in your site you can use a Windows server! Be sure that Microsoft will release a patch once it's too late. Otherwise you can have a quiet Linux server (which can still be hacked if your server admin is stupid or naive).
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| CHEAP WEB HOSTING - providers that have been there with the same prices for years |
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| see ressources here under ofr a US cheap one (since Cyberwing collapsed, I lost track) |
| Alive WWW (UK) - Good hosting provider and Reseller hosting provider. Highly skilled customer service. |
| Online.net (France) - Sister company of Free.fr a local leading internet access provider, part of an online company created with the Minitel in the 80's. As they where among the first to offer free hosting whithout advertising they eventually added a domain name management at the top of their existing service to become a real hosting service (years ago already). They also have their own registrar service. See Iliad (or Illiad) in Freanch or Euro stock market.. |
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Other ressources:
Try to find a valuable directory with fair listings and easy to search database. These ones used to be fine (but...):
HostIndex - HostSpot
Does LOCATION matter?
The location of the server matters yes. Otherwise the registration of the company matters only for the currency conversion charge from your bank if you deal with a foreign company.
Server and main users shouldn't be too far from each others so users don't wait too long for their data. So you have to clearly identify where the server is. Note that the company may be in India or UK and the server in Texas. |
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