Posts Tagged ‘Cheap’
Below are the top five general purpose cheap web hosts selected
for September 2005. All of the following hosting plans include a
web control panel, a cgi-bin directory, php, perl, and at least
1 mysql database. Many offer a number of additional features.
Our ratings are re-evaluated monthly, with a major re-evaluation
of customer ratings every three months.
About the CWHR Rating: This number (from a low of 1 to a high of
10) is a weighted average of customer ratings of the web host
(80%) and the staff evaluation of the web host (20%). Customer
ratings are themselves weighted by the length of time the person
has been using their web host. Customers who have hosted with a
company for years count more than a customer who has hasted
there for a couple of months. As our rating is mainly determined
by customers of web hosts, our rating is less likely to be gamed
by staff evaluators playing favorites or web hosts giving our
staff special treatment. The CWHR Ranking determines the sites
we list each month and the order in which we list them. A CHWR
Rating of “NA” means not enough customers rated this host for a
meaningful result. This rating is only found in the special
needs hosting section.
Top Five General Purpose Cheap Web Hosts for September
2005
#1 — Dre
amhost http:/
/www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zdreamhost.php
Price: 1m: .95 1y: .95 2y: .95 Setup: 1m: .95 1y: Free
2y: Free Bandwith: 120 GB Disk Space: 2400 MB Mailboxes: 600
CWHR Rating: 9.6
Special Features: 75 shell/ftp accounts, php4/php5/cgi/fastcgi/
unlimited mysql databases, ruby-on-rails, zend optimizer,
Frontpage available, host 3 domains and 15 sub-domains, 1 free
domain name. Excellent customer support (with public customer
forum).
Comments: Dreamhost has long been — and still is — listed as
the best affordable web host for unusual content (as they will
host just about anything legal) in the Special Needs Hosting
section of this report. Improvements in their plans in the last
year have made them very competitive in terms of bandwidth, web
space, and features offered for the price, and they are
extremely well-rated by their customers.
New and improved features are announced in the Dreamhost
newsletter almost every month, for example, the June 2005
newsletter announced the availability of PHP5 and MySQL 4.1 and
the July 2005 announced the availability of Ruby on Rails,
FastCGI, Miva 5, the Zend Optimizer and bandwidth/disk space
amounts that grow slightly every week you are with Dreamhost (by
1 GB and 20 MB disk space for the account listed here).
Dreamhost’s customer support is the best we’ve seen in the low
cost hosting industry. If you are looking for low cost, high
quality web hosting with few content restrictions, truly
excellent tech support, and very friendly people, check out
Dreamhost. Dreamhost offers a 97-day money back guarantee, see
their web site for details. (The Cheap Web Hosting Report hosts
with Dreamhost.)
#2 — Lu
narpages http:
//www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zlunarpages.php
Price: 3m: .95 1y: .95 Setip: 3m: .00 1y: Free Bandwidth:
40 GB Disk Space: 1000 MB Mailboxes: unlimited CWHR Rating: 9.1
Special Features: Storage can be increased to 3000 MB in steps,
php4/cgi/1 mysql database, Frontpage available, host 1 domain
and 15 sub-domains, Fantastico script library. JSP and ASP
available for additional charge. Public customer forum.
Comments: Lunarpages has been in the low cost web hosting
business since 2000 when Add2Net expanded into shared hosting.
While their customer rating fluctuates more than most hosting
companies we list, it is alway high and long time customers seem
very loyal. Their support for controversial content is second
only to Dreamhost among low-priced web hosts. Lunarpages offers
a 30-day money back guarantee, see their terms of service for
details.
#3 —
InMotion
http://www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zinmotionhosting.php
Price: 6m: .95 1y: .95 Setup: 6m: 1y: free Bandwidth:
100 GB Disk Space: 8000 MB Mailboxes: 400 CWHR Rating: 9.0
Special Features: php/cgi/5 mysql databases, Frontpage
available, host 1 domain and 5 sub-domains.
Comments: InMotion Hosting is an employee owned and operated
company founded in 2001. Their employees average over 4 years of
hosting experience while their senior staff average over 10
years of hosting experience. This shows it their higher than
normal customer rating. The Power plan listed here is actually
InMotion’s intermediate plan. (InMotion offer an ever lower
priced plan, Launch, but it lacks some features most people
consider critical, such as access to your web sites log files
for traffic analysis.) The Power plan offers evey features most
web sites need and comes with InMotion’s reputation for
reliability and toll-free telephone support. InMotion offers a
money back guarantee, although its terms are somewhat unclear –
if these terms were not so vague, InMotion’s CWHR Ranking would
be slightly higher.
#4 — Ho
stRocket http:
//www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zhostrocket.php
Price: 3m: .95 1y: .95 Setup: 3m: Free 1y: Free Bandwidth:
50 GB Disk Space: 1000 MB Mailboxes: unlimited CWHR Rating: 8.1
Special Features: php/cgi/10 mysql databases, Frontpage
available, host 1 domain and unlimited sub-domains. 50
preinstalled scripts.
Comments: Founded in 1999, HostRocket is a popular web hosting
company that is well-rated by its customers. They greatly
expanded their offerings in 1994 and are now very competitive in
bandwidth, disk space, and features. HostRocket often runs very
nice short-term specials, check their web site for details.
HostRocket offers a 30-day money back guarantee, see their terms
of service for details.
#5 — Netf
irms http://
www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/znetfirms.php
Price: 1y: .95 Setup: 1y: Free Bandwidth: 100 GB Disk Space:
2000 MB Mailboxes: 100 CWHR Rating: 7.8
Special Features: php/cgi/10 mysql databases, Frontpage support,
two free domain names, free CD with NetObjects Fusion 7.
Comments: Founded in 1998, Netfirms rapidly acquired a
reputation for affordable, reliable web hosting. Although aimed
at business hosting, Netfirms hosts sites of all types”
personal, hobby, business, weblog, and more. Their Netfirms
Advantage plan is full of useful features and should handle
almost any personal or small business web site. Netfirms offers
a 30-day money back guarantee, see their terms of service for
details.
Honorable Mention
The following web hosts also rated quite well in customer
ratings and might also be worthy of consideration: * BlueHos
t (CWHR Rating: 7.4) http://
www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zbluehost.php * PowWeb (CWHR Rating: 7.1) http://ww
w.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zpowweb.php * APlus
(offers both Unix and Windows hosting; CWHR Rating: 6.5) http://www
..cheapwebhostingreport.com/zaplus.php * iPower
Web (CWHR Rating: 5.8) http:/
/www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zipowerweb.php * Start
Logic (CWHR Rating: 5.6) http:
//www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zstartlogic.php
Special Needs Cheap Web Hosting
Fewer Content Restrictions
Dre
amhost http:/
/www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zdreamhost.php Price: 1m:
.95 1y: .95 2y: .95 Setup: 1m: .95 1y: Free 2y: Free
Bandwidth: 120 GB Disk Space: 2400 MB Mailboxes: 600 CWHR
Rating: 9.6
Comments: In an effort to avoid arguments and complaints, most
web hosting companies are fairly restrictive on questionable
content — to the point that some will terminate a site for
displaying a picture of a classical (but bare breasted) statue
from ancient Greece. Dreamhost not only has an excellent, cheap
web hosting package but is far more liberal than most web hosts
on acceptable site content. Basically, if your content is legal
in the US, Dreamhost will probably have no problems hosting it.
For more information on Dreamhost, see the description above.
Windows Hosting
Easy
CGI http://w
ww.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zeasycgi.php Price: 1m: .95
1y: .96 Setup: 1m: Free 1y: Free Bandwidth: 50 GB Disk Space:
3000 MB Mailboxes: 50 CWHR Rating: NR
Comments: Easy CGI provides Windows 2000 servers instead of the
standard Unix servers. Their accounts come with ASP and one
Access Database. They are one of the most affordable and most
popular Windows hosting providers. Customer service reports are
spotty, however. Most people report excellent service but
minority report major problems
Virtual Dedicated Server Hosting (Root Access)
Jump
line http://
www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zjumpline.php Price: 1y: .95
Setup: Free Bandwidth: 5 GB Disk Space: 500 MB Mailboxes: 75
CWHR Rating: NR
Comments: Jumpline uses special technology to provide each
account with its own virtual server. You have your own Apache
web server, your own email servers, your own database server,
etc. and you have root access to the virtual machine running
them. These types of accounts can be more stable and provide
better control, but are best used by Unix experts who understand
the ins and outs of running servers.
Dedicated Server Hosting
ServerPronto htt
p://www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/zserverpronto.php Price:
1m: .95 Setup: 9.00 Bandwidth: 200 GB Disk Space: 40 GB
Mailboxes: unlimited CWHR Rating: NR
Comments: A dedicated server gives your site its own physical
computer as a server. The upside is that you have full root
access so you can install whatever software you want on it and
have very few restrictions on scripts (even if they hog CPU
time). The downside is that you have to maintain the system
yourself. ServerPronto has some of the most affordable dedicated
server prices we have seen (and they often have sales that cut
the price of the setup fee), although there are many options
that can increase the monthly price or the setup fee. Windows
and Windows 2003 dedicated servers are also available at higher
prices.
The information in this report was checked for accuracy on
August 31, 2005. Web hosting companies, however, can change
their pricing and plans at any time so the information may no
longer be accurate when you read this report. The Cheap Web
Hosting Report and its staff are not responsible for errors nor
for what use you may make of this information. For updated
information, check The Cheap Web Host Report web site at http://www.cheapwebh
ostingreport.com/
Looking for more information on designing, hosting and promoting
a web site? Download a copy of our free ebook/newsletter, the
CWHR Web Site Design Guide. This guide is updated monthly with
additional articles and the current edition of The Cheap Web
Hosting Report’s current monthly report. Download it at http://www.cheapwebhostingreport.com/freewebdesignguideebo
ok.php
Notes:
The prices listed are the monthly price based on the shortest
prepayment period offered (1m = one month, 3m = three months, 6m
= six months) and for annual pre-payment (1y = annual rate)
The setup fees listed are for the shortest prepayment period
offered and for the annual pre-payment plan.
—–
You are free to publish the September issues of The Cheap Web
Hosting Report on your web site or in your newsletter, so long
as all links are included as published here and are clickable if
this article is placed on a web page or in an HTML newsletter.
Minor corrections of spelling or grammar are allowed so long as
the article’s intent is not altered
Anyone cannot deny an old age saying, “One gets what he/she pays for”.
When one talks about some aspects of life, and business, there is quite strength in this statement, but not much when it comes to web hosting industry. Many a times, one will not get what he/she deserve to get or invest the money for.
For instance, there was a client paying 0.00 a month for his web hosting account.
After observing his requirements the conclusion was that there is nothing extraordinary in the features required by the client, which can be available in the basic hosting plan i.e. below .
What can be the conclusion regarding this client? It is that he is not only overburdened by the huge monthly charges but also not receiving the basic support required by him.
No doubt, an acute example, but a horrible incidence which several users needs to counter in their life span.
Many years ago, there was no trace of web hosting existed in the industry. Almost entire websites were hosted via local ISP’s. If one talk about average basis, the monthly charges for hosting a website was .00. Usually, if any user asks for any technical query to ISP, their opinion would be to purchase a book or rather go for a class to sort out the query.
It was somewhere around 1996, when few of the “web hosting” companies emerged in the market. Their commitment was strictly on to hosting websites. That time they can easily offer a hosting package around .00 a month. In addition to it, they can easily provide technical assistance to meet user’s necessities.
With the emergence of the year 2005 new type of hosting termed as cheap web hosting raised in the market providing hosting services at a very low cost of even less than .00 a month.
Normally, cheap web hosting companies are latest companies in the market. This is due to the reason that it is quite daunting for the older companies to decline their cost as they possess a huge customer base which is ready to pay higher prices. This can adversely affect their expansion which cannot be a positive deal for many of the companies.
Thus what way low priced hosting companies provide hosting packages at such a cheap rate?
One of the reasons for this is that servers, hard drive space and bandwidth are quite cheap as compared to many years ago. This is one of the triumph cards for the web hosting companies.
Other reason is that cheap hosting providers adopts diverse business structure in comparison to older companies. Certainly, Web hosting business is severely competitive. Recently, the basis of competition is the tools and features provided to the user. When one talk about this sort of strategy the major draw back is that every user doesn’t require all the features provided by the concern hosting company. Several hosting providers deliver free backup services for all their clients without any biasness. Off course, Backups are expensive, and it is not required by everyone, but every user is compelled to pay for it due to concerned package offered to them.
In contrast, low priced hosting companies might offer user the basic features that is applied by everyone, but put forward weekly backups as an available but additional feature, putting the cost of backing up restricted to those users only who really demands it.
Certainly, sweet to hear, but what when it comes to service? Will the user receive swift and proficient customer support just in the monthly charges of .00?
The reply will be, unbelievable but generally is YES.
Certainly, one cannot expect all the cheap hosting providers to deliver an outstanding service. In contract one cannot expect very good service from the hosting providers who demands large amount for their service.
Still the success of a cheap hosting provider lies in the fact that how well it can maintain the trust of customer. A hosting provider full of abilities and potential will try their level best to care their present customers.
Reliable, Affordable and Business web hosting service is necessary element for online transaction companies. hosting are many type such as reseller hosting, virtual private server, free web hosting, collocation web hosting, managed dedicated servers and shared dedicated hosting etc.
When we want to run of website on Internet then we require a space on Internet. This space provided by web hosting company. Web hosting service provider offer many attractive package but these packages may be fraud. Actually we require cheap web hosting and dedicated servers.
Now most popular hosting servers are Linux dedicated hosting servers and windows hosting servers. When we select company to web hosting service we should be notice following features:-
Web space 100MB and 1500MB etc.
Bandwidth/Month such as 500MB, 1000MB, 2000MB, 3000MB and 5000MB etc.
Other features such as Install activation, secure c panel and web mail, .htaccess support, MySQL database, phphmydmin GUI, web logs and reports, anti virus protection, own SMTP sever, FTP accounts, multi language control panel and company charged according features.
Free Web Hosting: free cpanel hosting, free Linux hosting and other web hosting service offer only for advertisement supported and limited functionality.
Shared dedicated hosting: multiple users share same server such as cpanel hosting and plesk hosting.
Reseller Hosting: Linux or windows reseller hosting provides total control themselves clients. Reseller Hosting web hosting offer lot of unlimited features such as unlimited MySQL database, change password, unlimited FTP access, unlimited SMTP server, unlimited sub domains and many other features.
Virtual Private Server: this is also popular as Virtual Dedicated Server. In this technology a big server divided into multiple servers and each server can reboot independently.
In India has many companies those provide windows and Linux website hosting service. Some company offer low cost reseller hosting, free Linux hosting, banner exchange and ecommerce web hosting service solution.
The hosting services should be dedicated and reliable because all IT and other companies depend on online transactions. Now offshore outsourcing work is requirement for all countries and Time to time need information from whole world. Any query or important information can come from any where to company. If hosting company server down then lot of dolor amount will be destroy. So hosting companies responsibility increase round the clock.
Let’s start with explaining what is a VPS. It’s a virtual server (or VPS, Virtual Private Server), which allows to overcome the limitations of traditional hosting configuration. A VPS provides some of the features of a dedicated server for all applications that require high performance, extreme configurability and complete isolation, proper of this last service. The virtual server is supplying an independent portion of a powerful server that is safely shared with other customers.
A cheap solution
The VPS may be an adequate solution for system administrator or web developers who don’t want to invest into a dedicated server but need something more than the basic hosting. On a VPS it is possible to host websites and databases, test server environment and enjoy low cost web space.
What to evaluate? Some considerations
1. Contract duration
Many times providers enter constraints in the acquisition of VPS which force you to buy their service for an imposed, minimum period. For example, the minimum period can be the monthly contract with obligatory payment per 3 months in advance. However, a more flexible solution is much better, as it allows you to test the virtual server for a short period and you can evaluate the performance and reliability of the system. For this reason we suggest you to choose a provider that offers contract with no constraints, and allows you to use your VPS for few days or weeks.
2. Activation costs
In some cases providers add fixed cost of activation to the monthly service fee. Furthermore, the activation is not always immediate – usually it takes few days before you can use the VPS. Choosing a provider that will not impose such costs is undoubtedly an advantage, especially when combined with the ability to have instant activation to start testing the environment.
3. RAM and CPU resources
The guarantee of this resources is highly important. Verify if servers are based on Xen technology (an open source software distributed under GNU/GPL license that offers performance comparable to non-virtualized solutions — ~ 8% overhead) or VMware virtualization.
4. Physical servers quality
When it comes to the technology, it’s not only a matter of brand image. Provider, which uses branded hardware, definitely offers better reliability than those opting for assembled servers. Also the computing power plays a very important role. A 16 core server, for example, is an excellent reliability guarantee.
5. Distributions
It’s easy to find VPS with various Linux distributions but only a few that provide Windows. It’s true that it’s a less wanted product – it can be useful for those, who have particular needs or personally prefer to use Microsoft operating system.
6. Administrative access to the server
Many developers and system administrators are accustomed to shared hosting services that provide a limited control panel. On the contrary, VPS complete distributions with unlimited access allow users to work freely and fully customize their environment.
7. The IP management
The standard solution available on the market is undoubtedly the one that provides shared public IP. A web hosting provider that offers dedicated public IP guarantees better warranty. You should also check if they plan to introduce private IP as well as High Availability (HA).
8. Location of the physical machines
Make sure your provider owns a Server Farm or is supported by an external Data Center. Names of the major telecom companies are undoubtedly a guarantee of safety and reliability. Check the redundant connectivity and if they are certified with ISO27001 (SLA should exceed 99%.).
9. Additional services
Does the VPS have additional services like firewall? Can you set and customize your own rules? It can play a crucial role if you want to assure maximum protection for your server. Does your provider offer service and machine resource monitoring? Is it also configurable to your needs?
10. Backup
A scheduled server backup can definitely be a service you cannot neglect. It’s also true, however, that if the provider offers a certain quality in the choice of hardware and configuration of the machines, there is a guarantee from the outset.
For example, using RAID10 disks is synonymous with reliability and protection from failures of the disks themselves, which can lead you to choose a provider that offers a such quality level of service.
Professional e-commerce website owners and professionals can create a good impact on the minds of website visitors and online customers by using dedicated server hosting rather than shared server host plans. Dedicated server host plans are now cheap as never they had been before. So website owners are advised to use multiple featured dedicated web hosting options to get full dedicated customer care and technical support for their websites. Dedicated server hosting can provide vitality and active operational capacity to a website thus contributing to its popularity among internet users plus business websites can get more growth on internet as a dedicated host server is fast, more secure and provides complete ownership to the user. By availing dedicated host server plan one can install as well as update any web application software on a website and thus invite more internet traffic to it. Now dedicated host servers are available on basic website hosting plans for as much as US per month and advanced dedicated hosting plans offer servers for as much as US per month. These rates may appear cheap to some persons others may find it costly due to their own reasons however these plans provide many additional amenities to their customers like unlimited SQL databases, unlimited disc space and bandwidth, multiple POP3 email accounts, multiple and free domain names for online business purpose.
Merits of dedicated server web hosting:
Dedicated server hosting may appear to be more in operating cost when compared to shared server website hosting so many web hosting customers choose the latter for saving money and don’t mind to run their commercial and personal web portals on public shared servers. But finally it is managed dedicated host server that provides real support and permanent stability to a website on the internet. Dedicated website host servers can provide 100 % reliability to users by avoiding adverse factors seen in shared server web host plans like overloading of servers, bad web language scripts, incorrect HTML codes etc. Shared hosting server has one big demerit that is many web application softwares of multiple website users are installed on a single shared server that adversely affects the operating speed of websites as well as uptime quality. Where as a dedicated hosting server has a major merit, it offers complete space and ownership to a single website user to install all web application softwares so that it may run with a good speed and provide visitors real experience of surfing its each and every webpage.
We offer most inexpensive cheap yet multiple featured plans and offers for dedicated server hosting to all those personal and e-commerce website owners as well as customers who wish to run their websites in a more stable and secured online environment. Our dedicated managed server hosting plans work on windows as well as linux operated personal as well as e-commerce websites. High quality, reduced operating cost and 24/7 hours customer care support are our hall marks. For more assistance to avail dedicated server hosting packages visit us at http://www.ewebhostguide.com . Do contact us at feedback@ewebhostguide.com . We are available to assist you on phone at 703-468-4634