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Hosting Costs

Out of curiousity how much do you pay for web hosting and what are the specs?

  • Dedicated server?
  • One site hosting?
  • Virtual hosting?

Let me know.

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Published by Scrivs on April 18, 2005 in Webmastering • Did you like it? Subscribe! Or Submit it to Blogosphere News!

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  1. I pay 30 USD / month to ServerPronto for 200 gigabytes of monthly transfer, 1 ip address and root on a low-end, not virtual server (40 GB hard drive, 256 MB ram, 1.5 gigahertz celeron (or similar)).

    By Andrew Sullivan on April 18, 2005 11:01 pm

  2. I’m very loyal to a locally based company called Pharamond. I don’t have the greatest deal with them, but their support is great. I pay about $10US a month for 250MB space / 1750MB transfer / 2 databases.

    However, I just discovered 1and1.com recently, and I’m currently enjoying 6 months of 1 free .com domain registration, 2GB space / 50GB transfer / 150 subdomains. After that I think it’s like $5.99 a month or something for their bare-bones hosting package, which is still pretty hefty. I have heard their service isn’t the most wonderfullest though, and they get really crabby when you try to transfer your free domain to a different host. ;) Plus their control panels are pretty useless; you definitely have to know your UNIX shiznit to get anything done.

    By Linds on April 18, 2005 11:39 pm

  3. $12 a month to TextDrive for my quality apps, and $30 a year for all my miscelaneous/not-important apps.

    By Kyle on April 18, 2005 11:56 pm

  4. I’m in the same boat as you Paul. I notice you use Dreamhost (at least on some of your million sites), as do I. You are already framiliar with the specs, and the cost. They have been good to me. FTP and some management tools are sluggish and sub par, but for the price it is more than you bargin for.

    When renewing hosting, I needed it fast, and I did not have a whole lot of money to spend as Christmas was approaching. I set a goal, either my visitors donate half the cost, or nothing. At the time I needed to raise around $70, which after the fund raiser was over, I only ended up spending around “little Jimmy’s Christmas Sweater.”

    Now that the past months have been good to me financially, I am planning on upgrading from the entry level plan to the Code Monster plan which will be a benefit to everyone who visits my sites, as well as myself. I think the most I ever seen on any site I’ve made is 1.2GB (unmatched style of course) and with so much bandwidth, I don’t see myself going over that.

    My biggest concern is storage, I’ve been and the custom DNS. I’ve been making my thumbnails for UMS at a higher quality for my visitor…and as much as I’ve been updating over there (plus SQL databases) I can see myself running low on storage down the road.

    But I’ve had a bunch of different hosts in the past; and I like Dreamhost the best. Sure on FTP speeds, and execution of certain languages (Perl) they are a bit sluggish, but nothing to cry about. I have never seen my sites down, I saw my email down for 15 minutes because the server email was hosted on went out, but other than that; what you get for the price is unbeatable.

    By Ryan Latham on April 18, 2005 11:59 pm

  5. ASmallOrange.com

    The best host ever, I love them. Service tickets are usually responded to within minutes, and they have never failed to help me out with my problems.

    Cost is reasonable, and I believe with the Coupon code “Neodeal” you can get 20% off all plans. Very reasonable.

    Speedy as well, and they provide dont put physical limits on extras, like MySQL databases, subdomains, and email accounts.

    By Nate Wienert on April 19, 2005 12:18 am

  6. I’ve had a dedicated server for about a year now. It was one of the best moves I’ve ever made. You just have so much control over what you do that it is absolutely wonderful.

    I have the “Super Xeon” plan at ServerMatrix and it has been great. It is a very powerful machine and runs around $200 a month. I wouldn’t use near all of it’s power if I wasn’t running some CPU eating tests on it most of the time. It is still running at top speed, but I’m probably going to have to get another smaller dedicated server sooner or later.

    I can’t even remember the last time ServerMatrix had down time. They really are a great company with great support. I tried a few other big dedicated hosts and no other ones matched up to this as far as uptime, speed, and price.

    By Jacob G. on April 19, 2005 12:21 am

  7. 4 xeon processors, 1 gig ram, dual scsi dedicated linux machine… $260/mo. from Voxel.net. I don’t know if they still have deals like this, but it seems sweet to me 8)

    By Ryan Mahoney on April 19, 2005 12:26 am

  8. Another ASmallOrange.com fan here. I pay $5/month for 400 meg of space, 10 gig of transfer, and unlimited subdomains and databases. Before that, I was paying $18/month for less space. They’ve been very responsive and helpful too.

    By Jen on April 19, 2005 12:39 am

  9. $4.80/month for 45Gb transfer, 600Mb space, shell access, cPanel (love it!), unlimited SQL, subdomains, emails etc etc etc from http://www.serverseed.com

    Help tickets are also settled usually within minutes. I don’t think I have ever been upset with them once. 20% of with coupon “tw20″ as well.

    By Jeff Clark on April 19, 2005 12:54 am

  10. I just signed up with DreamHost a month or so ago. My host gives me 2.4 GB storage space, 120 GB monthly transfer, 3 full domains, 15 subdomains, and a bunch more. It is on a shared server, but I haven’t had any problems with the speed or responsiveness of my 2 hosted domains so far. My hosting plan is only $7.95 a month. The service has been good so far and I’m pretty happy with them. They also have a 97 day money back guarantee. Can’t go wrong. And I know my site is unfinished…. working on a new design.

    Jamie

    By Jamie Starkel on April 19, 2005 1:57 am

  11. I’m a happy TextDrive VCII, so I no longer have a monthly hosting bill. I’m on a shared server and I’m allocated 1GB disk space and 20GB/month bandwidth. I get 15 domains, unlimited mailboxes and aliases.

    Specs and features are here.

    One feature you won’t see in the list which really impresses me is their anti-spam setup; I’ve seen exactly two pieces of email spam since moving over, and exactly one referer spammer.

    They also have one of the best user communities I’ve ever seen at a hosting company; an awful lot of very smart, very savvy people are over there these days and are willing to pitch in and help one another out.

    By ubernostrum on April 19, 2005 2:10 am

  12. I’m on Textdrive (VC1 plan - USD$200/lifetime for up to 15domains). Can’t get that anymore but the standard hosting deal there is great value. See Textdrive plans for details.

    By Mat on April 19, 2005 2:11 am

  13. Also, a full breakdown of TextDrive’s available plans is here, and I should point out that their support people are amazingly responsive. Bottom line: if you’re a geek and you have a decent idea of what you’re doing, I think TextDrive is your ideal host.

    By ubernostrum on April 19, 2005 2:13 am

  14. I am from the Netherlands and I host my project (don’t want to call it a website yet) at Keeponhosting.nl for 1$/m.
    375mb, 10gb traffic, unl. db, mysql, php/asp. Plesk reloaded as panel. Works like a charm and they respond to tickets in minutes. Very good. Beats me how they can make a profit with these prices, but hey, I am not complaining.

    By Pascal on April 19, 2005 4:55 am

  15. On the month-to-month $19.95 Dreahost Code Monster plan: Unfortunate $49.95 sign-up fee, but otherwise happy hosting, and have 10 seperate domains and accounts on the one plan. I’ll never fall for the bargain-basement-priced hosts (Oktagone!) again.

    By Jeff Werner on April 19, 2005 5:49 am

  16. I am currently running a reseller account on Quality Hosting Online. More to hold my too many domain names, and a few for friends than to resell.
    $US10 per month, 2 gig diskspace and 10 gig bandwidth per month.
    Havent needed to make a support call yet (and thats a good thing on its own! :)) but its all running smoothly so far.

    By Lea on April 19, 2005 7:47 am

  17. My personal site hasn’t switched yet, but I’m moving to Total Choice Hosting (http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/). I’ve been using Netfirms for years because it’s cheap, but for $4/mo I can have a load of space and unlimited databases at TCH.

    Dedicated servers $79. 24/7 support uses AIM in addition to phone, and that’s great if you have a question at 4am. They also have real-time server stats right on their homepage, for all of their shared servers. You know which # server you’re on, so it’s instant info.

    Got 2 clients with them, no downtime yet. Great service, amazing price, and it’s as fast as your DSL can handle.

    I should work for them.

    By Bradley on April 19, 2005 7:50 am

  18. I pay about £3 a month for one site hosting, 500mb space, 3GB Transfer, All the mod cons, MySQL, PHP etc.

    My larget site. £50 a year, 1GB space, 10GB Transfer, and we can part 5 or do domains. I belive we can setup like 500 email accounts if we want.

    Personally I would rarther have a managed dedicated server, installing PHP yourself is a bitch.

    By Tom on April 19, 2005 9:10 am

  19. I’m using a reseller account (USD$10/month) at HostPC. Excellent service, fast servers.

    By Dan Wolfgang on April 19, 2005 9:41 am

  20. I’m on Hostrocket (hostrocket.com). Their RocketOne deal is good - 50g transfer, 1g storage, unlimited mail, subdomains, etc…

    I’ve been with them for 3 years, and I have a few of my clients sites hosted there to. Tech support is great. They give you a discount when you register multiple accounts, and they have a referral program too.

    By Jasper on April 19, 2005 10:32 am

  21. I siphon off you man.

    By Matthew Oliphant on April 19, 2005 10:34 am

  22. I have 2 which I will be consilidating this wekeend to one…
    1 - 1and1.com I pay $9.98 a month for 2GB of storage, great deal, and have 3 or 4 sites on there. Service is so-so and is often of an ‘internationa; accent’ which frustrates the hell out of me but UI and abilities are pretty solid.

    2 - aplus.net, same price but half the storage. It was a great deal 2 years ago when I signed up but the UI isn’t all that great. Service rocks. You pick which is more important.

    I plan to switch to Dreamhost based on a long thread of comments last week on another site (I can’t remember where now) but there sale price right now are to die for and I’ve gotten a good taste of their support as I emailed them a bunch of questions and got responses quick, went back and forth a bunch of times and was pleased. I feel like consolidating a bunch of sites on 4.8GB for $15 a month is a sweet deal.

    By steve on April 19, 2005 10:41 am

  23. Doh! I forgot the price in my previous post… duh…

    Hostrocket’s RocketOne is $7/month.

    Cheers!

    By Jasper on April 19, 2005 10:44 am

  24. I have been fortunate to have a good soul present me with free hosting for the last 8 months. I currently run 4 of my sites on his server and he is very helpful, but his name must be kept a secret, because if I told you, I’d have to….you know the rest…

    By Bryan on April 19, 2005 11:01 am

  25. I have a reseller account with Dathorn. I don’t come close to maxing anything out and run about 8 sites for $15 a month. Been a couple of times where site/email was down because of something someone else on the shared server was doing. I would love to get a dedicated box as I run a couple at work, but the $$ is too much right now.

    By Deuce on April 19, 2005 11:24 am

  26. I currently host my websites with webhosting.uk.com who I have found very good..

    My own hosting package which is a custom package they did for me is shared hosting with the following:
    2gig of space,
    20gig monthly bandwith,
    10 addon domains,
    10 parked domains,
    10 subdomains,
    5 mySql databases,
    and much more.

    Whenever I need more addon domains, parked domains , subdomains are database I just drop them an e-mail and they are happy to just add them to my account at no extra costs.

    All of this comes to £45.00 which is equall to $86.23

    By Matt on April 19, 2005 12:06 pm

  27. - cca €30/year
    - 500MB storage
    - 2 databases
    - unlimited everything else
    … but limited to EU customers as far

    By Karel on April 19, 2005 12:38 pm

  28. Shared hosting for my personal site - 100 bucks a year gets me:
    - 1 gig of space
    - 40 gigs of bandwidth
    - unlimited email and forwarders

    lunarpages.com

    However, with all of my other personal sites on the same thing, I have been thinking of switching over to a dedicated host, and putting each on there.

    By Brady J. Frey on April 19, 2005 12:50 pm

  29. Dreamhost. $9.24 for the first year with their basic plan. I set up someone else with Textdrive and like them as well, but haven’t had enough time to explore all the goodies. Am hoping to move all my work project sites (9 currently) to TextDrive most likely because of their service and cool web folk.

    By Britt on April 19, 2005 1:13 pm

  30. I’m with 1and1 (www.1and1.com) for a Windows dedicated server. 3GHz Intel HT, 2GB RAM, 120GB HDD and 1.5TB bandwidth per month, for $149 per month.

    By Paul on April 19, 2005 1:32 pm

  31. We do our own hosting. We have taken a bit different approach to hosting though. We are also a Web development company and we are pioneering the concept of Managed Web Hosting. It is a little more expensive than regular Web Hosting, but the approach is entirely different. The actual service is targeted on a customer that does not want to do anything but run their own business.

    By Oto on April 19, 2005 3:05 pm

  32. PLANET ARGON

    Level 1: 400 MB Disk Space, 15 GB transfer, private instance of PostgreSQL, MySQL, unlimited mail accounts, SSH access, PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, Python, Java, Perl, etc. As low as $11/month.

    By Robby Russell on April 19, 2005 3:14 pm

  33. I’m cheap - $0.95 a month for 250MB space and 5 GB bandwidth at siteflip.com It’s a small plan, but I use it to it’s full potential. :-)

    By francey on April 19, 2005 3:37 pm

  34. I host with http://www.layerblue.com, I do the 500 meg/5 gig hosting for 4.95 a month. I also have a 50 meg SQL Server 2k database for 35 a year. I use ASP.NET so I usually end up paying more but I don’t mind.

    By Matt Galaviz on April 19, 2005 3:56 pm

  35. I go through this place http://www.ivhosting.com unlimited domains, mysql, email, everything is unlimited and I Mean everything.. I pay 14.95 a month and I get 3gb of space and 45gb of bandwith per month.. Awesome deal you can pay 15 a month or 99 bucks a year.

    By James Lenhart on April 19, 2005 4:01 pm

  36. I’m currently using jumpline.com mostly. The price seems fair and the thing that I love the most is that it works like your own server where you can modify the configuration of apache, php, etc.

    I also have an account with mediatemple but now seems a little expensive compared to other hosting companies.

    By Moises Kirsch on April 19, 2005 5:23 pm

  37. After a friend recommended AngryHosting, I have yet to find something that comes close as far as bang for your buck.

    I get 5GB disk space, 100GB transfer, 50 domains, 20 databases (pg or my) unlimited emails and email forwards, virtual ftp, some mailing lists, and even shoutcast thrown in if I want to use it.
    How much you ask? $10 a month. That’s it.

    Online admin tools are straight forward and communication with admins has been prompt and understanding.

    Highly recommended.

    By AJP23 on April 19, 2005 10:29 pm

  38. Thanks for all the information so far people. Very, very useful.

    By Scrivs on April 20, 2005 1:08 am

  39. I use a host called Parcom (www.parcom.net) and they offer plans starting at $3.75 a month. Its shared hosting but it is full of features too numerous to list here. They have dedicated plans too.

    By Mike on April 20, 2005 8:02 am

  40. I’m on DreamHost too, on the cheapest plan. What amazes me with them is that I bought the plan for 2 years in Nov 2004, and one month after they just enlarged the specs 3x! No payments, no options, no nothing. Simply updated the plan and gave the update for free to all existing owners.

    Really make me want to stick around.

    By Aleksandar on April 20, 2005 10:10 am

  41. A mate has a server housed in a London datacentre. It costs £50pcm (I think) for the connection/rackspace, but the server and all the software on it is his own, and of course has full administritive access to it. Unfortunately physical access to the server is by appointment only, with a security officer present and costs £50 a pop - but he’s never needed to visit it.

    Of course this info is propbably completely useless to you scrivs! since it’s all in the UK.

    By FiftybyFifty on April 21, 2005 5:27 am

  42. At Servermatrix, a dedicated box running Debian stable, with 80Gb of hard disk, 1 gig of RAM and 1200 GB/month of bandwidth - $59. Probably now not available for less than $89 since it was a special.

    By JH on April 22, 2005 8:55 am

  43. I switched to Linode. Linode is freekin awesome… basically a self managed server.. Its just a box with an internet connection, u can do whatever u want with it.. And u get full root access using SSH to connect to it.

    By James Lenhart on April 24, 2005 10:55 pm

  44. I just switched over to Site5 about a month ago, and I’ve been very happy with them so far. For $6.95/mo. I get 3 GB of storage space and 50 GB of bandwidth. They also allow for 4 other sites to be hosted on the same account, and the plan I’m on comes with all the standard stuff (email accounts, MySQL databases, shell access, etc.).

    By Matt Jacob on April 25, 2005 12:17 am

  45. A co-worker is looking to move his site (Canadian Roadsite Attractions) and asked me the same type of question. He doesn’t need many features as the pages are static HTML but he is running into bandwidth issues with his current host. I pointed him to Canaca.com who offer 10GB space, 200GB bandwidth, other features for $3.95/mo (if you sign up for 2 yrs).

    By Jules on April 25, 2005 7:31 pm

  46. Ooops, misspelt Canadian Roadside Attractions.

    By Jules on April 25, 2005 7:32 pm

  47. Like a few others mentioned above, I’m on TextDrive with a VC II offer, so I get free shared hosting for life :). TextDrive is a great place with a great community (I’m not sure how many other hosting providers can claims such a knowledgable and friendly community).

    So if you’re a geek, and you understand (in part, at least), the specs at http://textdrive.com/specs, then TextDrive is the place to be.

    – Andy

    By Andrew Ho on May 3, 2005 1:39 pm

  48. 12SEK (~$1.57) / Month to Surftown for 300MB of space and unmetered bandwith. Comes with MySQL, PostgreSQL and PHP.

    395SEK ($51.82) / Year for my .net domain to TBA Media.

    Although I am thinking about migrating to MidPhase later…

    /Gunnar

    By gunnar on June 12, 2005 2:34 am

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