Posted by stjames on March 25, 2001, at 1:34:34
In reply to Re: advertising, posted by Dr. Bob on March 22, 2001, at 2:53:39
That was interesting, thanks. I did a search, and for 800 MB, I found 25 less expensive services. Has anyone heard of any of these?
DommelNetsolutions ($22.00)
Superior Hosting
HostGenie
1-877-Site.Com
Saturn Services
Zapgold.com
Century-Host
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wantsomegetsome.net (!)
WestHost
Computer Solutions International
IIC Internet Services
Addr.com
Christian Site Hosting.com ($273.28)James here.....
OK. I will come out of deep lurkdom to give my .02
on this one. Presently Dr Bob is on Viero, they are my first choice, they are the best USA hosting people with their own backbone. This costs. So I like the idea of moving to a cheaper
host but not the cheapest. Take a look at http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/bhcom.htm
The San Fernando Valley Folklore Society's
Urban Legends Reference Pages, the da facto plaace to go to debug internet bs. Their experiences with a cheapie hosting service are
true for most. At $22.00 they say you get unlimited bandwidth but they have to cram so many
sites on one server to make money it does not happen.I would like to help by doing an analysis on some of these providers. The new job has new toys, one of them runs every min. 24/7 checking a statewide network. There is no reason I cannot also get stats on these provides, over a weeks time. I can check to see if they are up and if services like http, ftp, and dns are up. With some other toys and can do random checks of the server load. The other consideration is how well connected the host is to the internet. Veiro rocks and you pay for it. They have their own backbone and are directly connected to mea-west and mea-east. It is easy to figure out who is better connected. It also helps to host in the country you serve the most pages to. Why make your pages cross the ocean to get to most viewers ?
So, would it be possible to cut that list down some ? Off the top of my head, the $50-100 range
is reasonable; this would offer big savings
and reasonable performance. I can also ask around
about these hosting services; I would also sugest
asking several people who host with the service what they think. Some stats that I did not see on your page that would be helpful to know are total hits and bandwidth (megabytes/gigabytes a month)
for the last 3 months. (if the all time high is not in the last 3 months, that number is helpful).So, if you would like, send me a list to work from. My e-mail addy is the same.
James
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