Please help me in choosing web hosting

[0as]

Hi everyone,
I am sorry for possible offtopic, but I need your help in find new web hosting provider as soon as possible, because my current host (ixwebhosting.com) is kicking me off, they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB (maybe they do not like that?)

Anyway, what would be your recommendations for getting reliable web hosting? Where are you hosting your websites? Are you happy with your providers?

I am now checking http://www.hosting24.com/ - offer looks very nice, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".

What do you think about it? Maybe things have changed in last 4 years? With my current provider I get only 2GB of disk space for $10 per month..
Any ideas and suggestions are much appreciated.

[peter]

Try here:
Best free webhost ??

[chris.p]

Hiya.

OK, let's think what you need. Basically, a large webspace allocation - but not much bandwidth. Also nothing else, according to your post - but probably there is more to it than you say - we need to know about databases, dynamic webapps etc.

Is your site a flat site or dynamic? (Using HTML / PHP / ASP static pages, or run off a database.)
If dynamic, is it a CMS / forum / blog / ecommerce or whatever?

The host you mentioned, Hosting24, is the paid upgrade version of 000webhost. I just looked at that and found a couple of issues - you can read about it in the Best Free Webhost? thread. For example you wouldn't want to go there if you have a dynamic (database-driven) website, as they run the virtual filepath system, which is rare, and maybe OK on flat sites but a mega pain with DB-driven sites. Lots of fun with htaccess.

You could try Hostgator, they have a big resource allocation. Hosts like them often advertise 'unlimited' webspace and 'unlimited' bandwidth - but there is no such thing of course, like unlimited broadband, it doesn't exist. If you use a lot then they soon get stroppy. 'Unlimited' DSL is normally limited to 50GB a month bandwidth, and the same goes for unlimited hosts: you're limited to 50,000 iNodes (= files - pages, images or whatever), and 25% of the server resources.

These are big limits though, most people could never get anywhere near them.

So it depends what you need exactly and what sort of site you have. Search for 'unlimited webspace' because that looks like your main feature, 1.5GB is big, most people's sites are well under 500MB.

And this all assumes you want to be hosted in the US.

[George]

Hi 0as,

I am not sure if you're looking for a free web hoster. If so, then follow Peter's link.

If you are willing to pay, my top recommendation is:
http://www.1and1.com

Originally from Germany, where they are probably the most popular hoster, they expanded their business to the Americas. What I like most is the technology and most of all the web frontend for administering your domains and web services. I haven't seen any better. I made very good experiences with support as well.

1and1 has several packages to purchase for different prices. Check them out if you like.

[rosarionemia]

my site is hosted in Godaddy.com as of now its doing its job great!

I simply like it. 60 usd for one domain and on year hosting.

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