Excellent.
I'm only looking for a simple hosting account that is absolutely plain simple and normal. Like this:
- I can use my own domain name, not a subdomain (obviously - not much use otherwise)
- It has one or more databases (can't run a full-feature site otherwise)
- Has htaccess file functionality (as above - can't do normal stuff otherwise)
- Has email (fairly obvious, you'd think - but not to the Zymic people)
- Has FTP (can't run a site without that unless it's just 4 HTML pages or something))
- A small webspace allowance is fine, maybe 100 or 200MB (what do you expect for free?)
- Low bandwidth is fine, maybe 10GB a month (as above. And if the site succeeds you can upgrade, the funds are there then).
- Preferably on a normal LAMP server and not one with the weird virtual path setup that needs a RewriteBase script in htaccess, that is too much aggro and makes running a CMS or blog much too hard (I thought those were rare, only used by people stuck in the 80s, till the very first free webhost I tried had it)
Then, you pay for an upgrade in order to get onto a server with less sites on it, and better bandwidth etc.
So I don't need or want anything unusual - no big space or bandwidth - just a standard server. It's true that you can get away with a lousy level of server maintenance and setup if you're talking about a flat site, ie HTML pages, but that means you can't run a blog, CMS, forum, wiki, shopping cart / ecommerce, mail-list, or whatever. But in that case they should advertise "It's perfect for homepages", so you get the message, as it's very restricted.
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