Very Cheap Web Hosting

[charles4308]

So some of you may know i am trying to start a new business.

I was looking into web hosting online and came across this company that offers hosting for $1 a month. You can also get .coms for like $10. Pretty affordable for someone like me who is starting out. I did have a question about cPanel (im a noob) and the admin sent me an email letting me know exactly how to setup wordpress.


If anyone is interested i will post a link below.

www.atmospherz.com

 

[Vicenarian]

So some of you may know i am trying to start a new business.

I was looking into web hosting online and came across this company that offers hosting for $1 a month. You can also get .coms for like $10. Pretty affordable for someone like me who is starting out. I did have a question about cPanel (im a noob) and the admin sent me an email letting me know exactly how to setup wordpress.


If anyone is interested i will post a link below.

www.atmospherz.com

My absolute favorite provider so far has been hawkhost. Their prices are affordable, their hosting is reliable, and yeah, I'm very happy with them.

 

[charles4308]

I think i may have come across them at one point. I am a pretty cheap person, and i wanted to spend the minimum i could at first, and see if i can take off from there. granted there are free hosting sites, but who wants ads shotgunned all over their screen. lol

 

[tf76]

Thanks, I'll check them out!

Regards,

 

[DanF]

Does anyone use godaddy? I've got a domain registered with them, that I only use for the business email account. But I'm planning to use the domain for a website, even just a single page as an advert.

Before proceeding I want to know if godaddy is fine or not according to your experience.

 

[timmymacs]

I have used both GoDaddy and Z-host frequently and they are both pretty good. Z-host is my preference as they dont try to sell you all the add-ons and upgrades like Go-daddy. Very easy to follow website with Z-Host as well, GoDaddy is a little cluttered with ads etc.

Having said all of this, GoDaddy is still decent.

 

[16k_zx81]

With your business website, if you plan to use it to bring you business, really you might want to re-think using bargain-basement hosting services.

Cheap hosting is cheap for a reason.

Im not saying dont shop around and get something thats value for money, but if your livelihood is connected to the site's operation, thats an important thing to consider before signing a contract.

Personally, I signed up with a cheap provider, and had constant speed issues - one of the commonalities with cheap hosting is that they are overloaded.

One day I decided to have a look at my site - only to find out it was down.

...[Long saga will spare you the details here...]. Lots of argument and the site was offline for a total of 4 days(!). I ended up leaving and moving to a new hosting company.

I get about 40 visitors a day to my website. About 10% of those visits are phone calls, and probably 3 are jobs (very roughly). Lets say each job is worth about $80 to me.

Site offline for one day = $240 down the toilet. In this instance it was offline for 4 days, so the exercise above cost me roughly $1000+/- in lost business.

Ya gotta love a bargain.... I saved $15 a month over what business-grade hosting would have cost. And it cost me a hell of a lot more than that.

Im relating all this to you OP because you might want to rethink that $1 you've been looking at.

They may be a good provider - I dont know - but you're taking a punt on something that could cost you a lot of money if they're not.

 

[Paul Rodgers]

With your business website, if you plan to use it to bring you business, really you might want to re-think using bargain-basement hosting services.

Cheap hosting is cheap for a reason.

Im not saying dont shop around and get something thats value for money, but if your livelihood is connected to the site's operation, thats an important thing to consider before signing a contract.

Personally, I signed up with a cheap provider, and had constant speed issues - one of the commonalities with cheap hosting is that they are overloaded.

One day I decided to have a look at my site - only to find out it was down.

...[Long saga will spare you the details here...]. Lots of argument and the site was offline for a total of 4 days(!). I ended up leaving and moving to a new hosting company.

I get about 40 visitors a day to my website. About 10% of those visits are phone calls, and probably 3 are jobs (very roughly). Lets say each job is worth about $80 to me.

Site offline for one day = $240 down the toilet. In this instance it was offline for 4 days, so the exercise above cost me roughly $1000+/- in lost business.

Ya gotta love a bargain.... I saved $15 a month over what business-grade hosting would have cost. And it cost me a hell of a lot more than that.

Im relating all this to you OP because you might want to rethink that $1 you've been looking at.

They may be a good provider - I dont know - but you're taking a punt on something that could cost you a lot of money if they're not.

I couldn't have said it better.

 

[jeubank]

For the absolute cheapest way of starting a website. As well as having the most control, and best performance.

Put your website on a desktop you are not using. Make it your web server. Even if it is 8 years old - You will get better performance (in terms of running scripts, multiple users, etc) than a shared hosting plan.

If you dont know how to do a Webserver you can always download Xampp for windows. Only thing you need to do, is put the server's IP address outside the router (100's of tutorials on the web), and leave the box on. Plus some minor configuration changes to Xampp for security reasons, but it shows you how. Plus whoever you buy the domain from, you point to the server's IP

In my opinion that is the best way.

 

[ProTech Support]

For the absolute cheapest way of starting a website. As well as having the most control, and best performance.

Put your website on a desktop you are not using. Make it your web server. Even if it is 8 years old - You will get better performance (in terms of running scripts, multiple users, etc) than a shared hosting plan.

If you dont know how to do a Webserver you can always download Xampp for windows. Only thing you need to do, is put the server's IP address outside the router (100's of tutorials on the web), and leave the box on. Plus some minor configuration changes to Xampp for security reasons, but it shows you how. Plus whoever you buy the domain from, you point to the server's IP

In my opinion that is the best way.

Problems:

1) Most ISP's block necessary ports for hosting a website.
2) Chances are he does not have a fail over generator installed on site. Power flicker or power outage, website is down.
3) Internet goes offline, website is down.
4) Hardware failure of any kind, website is down.
5) Overage on the allowed bandwidth of your internet package, website is down.

See where I am going here? Point of the matter is if you are OK with risking potential customers in an effort to save $10 a month, you may want to re-think your strategy.

 

[Jory]

I recommend spending $15-20/month at least, and going with a provider that offers realistic amounts of space/bandwidth. You business site probably won't be bigger than 100MB and maybe use 5GB of bandwidth a month. Don't go with someone that offers more thinking it's a better deal because you're not going to be using it anyway.

It might sound expensive compared to all the garbage hosts out there offering unlimited everything for $5-10/month, but a website should be making you money so don't worry about spending a few bucks to make sure it's right.

 

[TopLevelComp]

I use DreamHost, love them. If I have an issue, I've never gotten a response that took more than hour from the time I initiated the support ticket. I spend 10.95 a month for hosting. If I jump up to a VPS (Including a MySQL VPS) it only goes to 20.

 

[nhicktrush]

It's better to start your business going straight right investing on something that you know sooner or later your business will benefit from it..

 

[maclaptech]

I think i may have come across them at one point. I am a pretty cheap person, and i wanted to spend the minimum i could at first, and see if i can take off from there. granted there are free hosting sites, but who wants ads shotgunned all over their screen. lol

Cheap in web hosting means, poor customer service, down time, incompatibility, lack of features and more....

 

[jeubank]

Problems:

1) Most ISP's block necessary ports for hosting a website.
2) Chances are he does not have a fail over generator installed on site. Power flicker or power outage, website is down.
3) Internet goes offline, website is down.
4) Hardware failure of any kind, website is down.
5) Overage on the allowed bandwidth of your internet package, website is down.

See where I am going here? Point of the matter is if you are OK with risking potential customers in an effort to save $10 a month, you may want to re-think your strategy.

1. It is impossible for your ISP to block port 80.. that is every browser out there.. would mean, you get no internet at all.

(speaking on behalf of over 100 dedicated hosting accounts i have created over the united states, dealing with multiple ISPs)

2. A fail over generator.... hmm.. I didnt hear him say he didnt have one, nor that he did. however, Having said that. based upon your power company, demographics, natural disaster area, etc.. power outages are rare and infrequent. The mathematical probability that the power will go out, through power failure, just at the time a potential customer is hoping on the site, is unlikely.

3. Internet goes offline.. True.. but can be fixed with Dynamic DNS (which is free) and a free host like.. 000webhost or something, that runs a dynamic backup. Dynamic DNS cant ping the server, sends it to the next. simple and easy. But my internet has not gone done for 7 months.. and when it did, it was 40 minutes.

4. Hardware of any kind... errr. this is true for shared hosting. Find me a Hosting plan, dedicated or shared.. that this doesnt happen.. and I can show you a liar. hardware dies. Its the nature of our business. It puts food on our plates.

5. Overage on allowed bandwitdh for internet plan.. hmm. unless he is streaming Video and competing with youtube, we can ignore this. Plus, if he is in United States, we dont have such limits (the few cities and companies that do that.. well.. theres always 10 other companies that do not)

Remeber - the idea was the cheapest way to get a website up.

Shared Hosting = There rules, there server, what they support, what they do not, the languages you can use, the file permissions you can set, and the other 100 shared hosting accounts on the same box, fighting for the CPU / ram / Bandwitdh

your box = whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want. All the power of your Celeron 800MHZ 256MB of ram 20 year old PC - at your will.. Is much faster then any Shared hosting plan.

I speak from 14 years of experience in this field. Hundreds of Business clients respect it. They love it. I love it as a developer. I have never had an issue.

 

[charles4308]

I think the company is actually a host gator reseller. So things are on the host gator servers. Im new to this whole thing.

 

[Eric_whitbypc]

if its any help i've been using 'justhost' for the last 18 months, i've got a few different sites hosted in the same place with them
Their interface is pretty good and i've not had any problems with downtime or things not working with them, think i paid around £90/ year for unlimited everything pretty much!
cheers

 

[Martyn]

if its any help i've been using 'justhost' for the last 18 months, i've got a few different sites hosted in the same place with them
Their interface is pretty good and i've not had any problems with downtime or things not working with them, think i paid around £90/ year for unlimited everything pretty much!
cheers

I was looking for UK servers, their servers are in Chicago.

 

[geek12]

I use GoDaddy, they provide very cheap web hosting solution.

 

[Eric_whitbypc]

I was looking for UK servers, their servers are in Chicago.

im based in the UK too, i've never had a problem with the distance?