What Are the Best Web and Email Hosts? 183
GreyPoopon asks: "My wife has been running a small business for a couple years now. She is currently paying for web hosting services for a domain, but has elected not to put up a web site (she doesn't need more business), instead using the service only for sending and receiving email. Recently, the hosting service has become less and less responsive, and attempts to switch monthly bills to a different credit card have been completely ignored, and she's now looking for a new provider. She's interested in both hosting service providers as well as email-only providers that will allow her to use her existing domain name with up to five mailboxes. What are the best choices, these days?"
It's really pennies (Score:2, Informative)
If you were a spammer or something, scalability to large ammounts of e-mail addresses and cheapness in bulk would be important (godaddy is great for this). But really, what % of your operating expenses is $40?
Magma.ca (Score:4, Informative)
Great spam filtering too!
1and1 (Score:4, Informative)
1and1.com [1and1.com] seems ok, best price ive seen, so far fast, and the cheapest server hosting for 49 dollars a month I've seen. Seen their ads in magazines, figured for that good of a price why not try it out.
The plan I went with for 20 a month has 5 domains, 200 subdomains, 3 mysql, web email, 4000 megs disk space (Guess not a real 4gigs
The only drawback, no irc bots or chat servers. So I cant host a Teamspeak on them, but they might offer it, I need to ask.
I also think you have to be a little technical savey if they are truely automated, you must be your own tech support.
I play on moving some domains from eskimo.com if this goes well for a few months. Im just hosting gamer guilds and forums on them.
Only snag I hit was ADOdb for phpnuke isnt installed by default, and I havnt spent the time to try to get it to install it its own directory.
If anyone has any info on 1and1, please post it, i didnt find much negative feedback on usenet.
Re: You're a naughty one... (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Pair.com - 7$ a month for web and email (Score:3, Informative)
I used to work for a small ISP so I know the challenges that a small Mom and Pop shop face, and for serious redundancy they have a hard time competing with the big players.
I tried a number of other hosts with various sucess before I settled on Pair.com. They are a little more expensive then the really budget places but you get what you pay for.
As well as backup diesel generators and power systems etc., they have redundant connections to most of the big providers so they never miss a beat. If their oc-12 to AT&T goes down they have other oc-12's to sprint, global crossing, gigE to Savis, etc.
They are very open about the status of their network; you can always check the status of their network connections or any of their servers.
In the last 5 years with them I don't think they have raised my fees once, but the traffic they allow me has increased by an order of magnitude over that time. I can't say enough good about them.
DreamHost (Score:3, Informative)
They have a long history [dreamhost.com] and have been in business since 1997.
Re:OpenHosting.Com (Score:3, Informative)
The servers fast SMP/RAID machines in a carrier-class above.net datacenter (east coast). The server hardware is shared, of course (it's a virtual server after all), but Linux VServer will always give you notably better performance than User-Mode Linux VPS. Speed-wise Virtuozzo-based hosters may give you similar peroformance, but they usually clamp down resources very low and do you really want to support a proprietary software company that is likely violating the GPL [linux-vserver.org]?
or other apps like FTP, bittorrent(legal of course)?
We don't care what apps you run, we provide a virtual server, you install/compile/run what you like. bittorent will surely run up a large bandwidth bill though ;-)
Re: You're a naughty one... (Score:3, Informative)
I was hoping to buy a private jet and retire to a private island with half a dozen of supermodels all thanks to the affiliate link in my Slashdot post, but apparently things might not work out that way.
Anyway, it's a great host, and I would have pointed them out whether they had an affiliate program or not (the other one doesn't, by the way). Since it doesn't cost any more money to those who click on the link, I fail to see the damage.
My apologies if that link in any way offended you.
I second the suggestion of Linode (Score:3, Informative)