Website hosting. What do you reccomend?

[weEvil]

I'm looking for a good website host.

What do you recommend in Canada?

The site I'm going to host is going to be pretty heavy on graphics, but I don't expect any major traffic for at least a year until its fully operational. So I'm looking for something that starts out cheap and is flexible.

Reputation is most important. I don't want anything shady like GoDaddy.

Is a domain name always included?

[Nerwin]

Are you thinking some sort of Dedicated hosting? or Shared Hosting?

[weEvil]

Are you thinking some sort of Dedicated hosting? or Shared Hosting?

No dedicated hosting yet. Shared. Cheaper most of the time, right?

[Nerwin]

Yes. Well I can only recommend Anhosting.com and Dreamhost.

Both are really great. Anhosting will probably have a black friday or cyber monday deal. I got mine last year from the black friday deal, I got 1TB of space and 10TB of bandwidth.

And they have really great tech support

But I have also heard that dreamhost is very good as well.

[CoffeeFiend]

What do you recommend in Canada?

Why would you seek hosting located in Canada? It doesn't matter so much where it's located, as your visitors will be from all over the world. I'm quite happy with my USA hosting myself (at discountasp.net). domain name wise, I like to use namecheap.

[gamehead200]

Go with Dreamhost. You get more bang for your buck. I've got a collection of tons of promotion codes if you decide to go with them.

[weEvil]

Go with Dreamhost. You get more bang for your buck. I've got a collection of tons of promotion codes if you decide to go with them.

I looked at the Dreamhost website. I don't like the unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth 'forever'.

For less than $6/mo there must be a catch. Looks like they're overselling.

[Nerwin]

Thats why I go with anhosting.com Great people. Made in USA And the best thing is, the tech support knows there stuff! They don't mess around.

[ripken204]

well anhosting also oversells. pretty much every shared hosting company oversells.

for a bandwidth intensive site i would not suggest shared, maybe start off at a low end VPS if at all possible.

what exactly were you looking to pay per month? 5,10,15,20??

[weEvil]

well anhosting also oversells. pretty much every shared hosting company oversells.

for a bandwidth intensive site i would not suggest shared, maybe start off at a low end VPS if at all possible.

what exactly were you looking to pay per month? 5,10,15,20??

I want to start off low, $5/month sounds great. This is until I get everything assembled, then upgrade my plan as is necessary. This is why I need something flexible.

[Nerwin]

hahaha and whos the one who told me to get anhosting.... or showed me it... Huh? Huh? huh?

[ripken204]

ya i know, you love it so far don't you??

they are pretty good for shared hosting but every shared host oversells.

for some of the sites i have i need a fast cpu and lots of ram, i have some pretty large mysql databases.. now i have a dedi with a harpertown and 6gb of ram

[gamehead200]

Go with Dreamhost. You get more bang for your buck. I've got a collection of tons of promotion codes if you decide to go with them.

I looked at the Dreamhost website. I don't like the unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth 'forever'.

For less than $6/mo there must be a catch. Looks like they're overselling.

I've been with them for a little less than a year. The only catch is that they don't allow personal backups on their space.

[weEvil]

Awesome. Now what about domain registration? Does the host do it or do I have to go through a registrar like GoDaddy?

[Nerwin]

Yeah, I just godaddy.. I like them. I also heard namecheap is good. But its just preference.