How Much Do You Pay to Host Your Website?

DosGusanos asks: "I was curious how much people around the U.S. and around the world pay for hosting. Obviously size in cabinets/rack units/square feet, included features such as bandwidth, UPS/generator, management, etc. factor in. The configuration I am particularly interested in is three machines, one www, one search, and one database. The machines would be hooked up to a T1 and networked to one another over Ethernet. Anyone paying for colo or hosting in this same ballpark? How happy/upset are you with your provider?"

And as a Slashback recommendation...

[fobbman]

...we'll take the best of the ones offered and link them in a /. story to see how they do under load.

$40/mo

[Anonymous Coward]

Same thing I pay for my high speed internet connection. In fact, it's the same bill....

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Re:AOL

[stratjakt]

>> Maybe Im just paranoid, but I wouldn't feel right hosting our websites on someone elses hardware. It would be like having sex in your parent's bed.

I don't see your point.

I have sex in your parents bed all the time.

DMCA

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Asking hosting prices is in clear violation of the DMCA according to price copyright laws. Cease and desist, our lawyers are being notified.

Re:$0.00

[Jack William Bell]

Hmm...

As a State of Washington taxpayer, I am not so sure I am happy about you serving pages over a connection I subsidize.

So, you can send me forty bucks a month and we'll call it even!

Re:Why don't you go do your own research?

[Cap'n Canuck]

Geez, if you feel that strongly, maybe you shouldn't post under AC.

Also, did you ever think that it's the editors who are too lazy to do their own research?

CmdrTaco: Did you see the latest bill for our website - aack! We've got to stop posting such big stories, or else we're going to have to find another provider.
michael: Why don't we ask the /. readers where the best deal is?
timothy: They've been pretty pissed at us lately - have you seen the comments?
michael & CmdrTaco: No.
timothy: Why don't we pretend it's from another person, then...
CmdrTaco: Great! It's so crazy, it just might work!

Re:ServerBeach (OT)

[big_oaf]

Whoa! I read ServerBeach as BeaverSearch. Perhaps it's time to call it a day.

Re:$68/year or $5.66/month

[h2so4]

By my calculations, you're losing 68 - (5.66 * 12) = 8 cents a year.

Re:I paid $200 for a lifetime hosting....

[Anonymous Coward]

> I strongly recommend IrvineHosting.

Your site [irvinehosting.net] requires Flash, with no HTML alternative. That tells me what I need to know about your company.

Re:eryxma.com

[Anonymous Coward]

ok, i own a web hosting firm.

"here's my AIM screenname". run. run fast. that's web-host owner speak for "this shit runs out of my pantry"

Re:Rackspace

[llamaluvr]

In Solviet Russia, there's only 356 days in a year!

Re:Why don't you go do your own research?

[jeffy210]

CmdrTaco: Did you see the latest bill for our website - aack! We've got to stop posting such big stories, or else we're going to have to find another provider.

michael: or maybe if we just stopped posting the same stories twice...

Re:Beware of Rip-Offs...

[Waffle Iron]

For example, I think FeaturePrice said a failed router was an 'act of god', and therefore the down-time didn't fall under their uptime guarantee. Yeah. God smited their router... try proving that in court.

But read the fine print in their service agreement --

And concerning our routers God hath spoken: tell unto thine people these Terms and Conditions which I give to thee, and abide ye by them and ye shall drink of the fruits of My routers.

1. Thou shalt allow no spam to enter or leave the confines of My routers, for the spam is sure to sap the life of the men who behold it.

2. Thou shalt route no pr0n upon My routers, in order to keep them pure.

...

10. Thou shalt not hack My routers, nor shall thou employ My routers to hack thy neighbor's ox, nor thy neigbors wife, nor thy neighbor's information systems.

If thou shalt disobey these terms, I your Lord shall smite down these routers and they shall be barren of all thine packets and the packets of your children and your children's children, and the anointed keepers of this router shall not reimburse unto you the gold which you have given them in payment.

Re:"Free" hosting...

[StandardDeviant]

Heh, you're lucky. I was getting an average hop count in excess of 25 to every site, with traceroutes showing my packets going (for example) from austin to washington, dc, to vienna, austria, back to washington, then to wherever (dallas, houston, then here for local sites). "My packets went to Vienna and all I have is this lousy traceroute." 300+ msec pings to grace.speakeasy.net, same for work shell servers. Bah.

$36,000.00 per year!

[Incongruity]

Okay, so my website is hosted by the university that I attend, so I suppose the package deal (including room and board) isn't that bad...I mean, I get a BA out of it in the end as well! -tcp

Re:I paid $200 for a lifetime hosting....

[IrvineHosting]

No, actually in the next release of .NET Microsoft has added a feature that allows full GUI Microsoft applications to run from a browser in a safe and secure sandbox. They will use their monopoly of OS Control and MSN and force a large number of users to begin using the web as windows-based applications. People will prefer these sites because who wouldn't prefer a windows based version of ebay to a html ebay?

Folks, the war is seriously about to begin.

Re:Rackspace

[3-State Bit]

In fact, one of my three machines there has an uptime of 355 days (tomorrow is a whole year!!!)
Don't you mean 255 days then?

Re:I paid $200 for a lifetime hosting....

[Pean]

Whats funny if this dude is not Irvine Web Hosting, and when they actually look at their traffic today

IrvineWebHosting: "OH MY GOD! So much traffic! Finally! Our blinking Xmas tree finally paid off!"
(later that day)IrvineWebHosting: "Wait a minute, how come no business?"

Re:eryxma.com

[pimpinmonk]

the service has been great. the ceo even gave me his AIM screenname.

You mean CECS, right? As in Chief Executive College Student???