Experience with ULTRA cheap web hosting?

Sun, 18 Aug 2002 09:33:28 -0700 (PDT)

Let me tell you a little story about a web hosting company I worked for.  We 
hosted 1800 domains on 50+ servers, for which I was the sole admin.  The 
company charged $29.95 per month for the most basic account.  We resold our 
servers to other companies, and they charged $10/month.  Same boxes  - same 
admin (me), so price does not always mean anything.

I currently host georgetoft.com at a $5/month host, and networksbygeorge.com 
at a $1/month host (same one).  I monitor them with au uptime tool, and have 
noticed they had three outages lasting more than an hour since February.  Not 
as good as where I was the admin, but for the price, I am not going to 
complain.

Regards,

George

Quoting Kurt Granroth <kurt@granroth.org>:

> I'm not so sure that I can (or want to) host my website and email when I
> get 
> my new form of broadband (don't know what, yet).  So I've been doing
> some 
> searches for really really cheap web and mail hosting that still has all
> 
> the features I need.
> 
> I found quite a few that offer my essentials:
> 1. Web-based admin
> 2. Unlimited email aliases
> 3. Unlimited email accounts
> 4. Unlimited sub-domains
> 5. Linux/Unix based
> 
> The price range I looked for ranged from $1/month to $5/month.  The
> price, 
> obviously, is *very* attractive.  Most of the plans had yearly fees that
> 
> were the same and the most popular web hosting companies monthly fees.
> 
> There are obviously trade-offs, though.  I'm wondering if anybody here
> has 
> had experiences good or bad with any of the rock-bottom hosting
> services?
> -- 
> Kurt Granroth - "KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop"
> KDE Developer/Evangelist | granroth@kde.org
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