Website hosting and costs

stuart1266

I'm thinking of doing a webby and was wondering about the cost to set it up and maintain.

It's only going to be a fairly small one the start with, but I hope for it to grow, possibly with a forum added (I've got a theme in mind!!)

I need to find a cheap, reliable hosting company and cheap (free!) software.

Any tips?

j_davies

Search this website their is a plethera of information.

Moneymaker

I personally use this one:
http://www.betterwebspace.com/
Cheap and lots of software including forum, autoresponders, email addresses, PHP, MySQL, statistics...

Shimrod

Check out some of the hosting organisations in the states https://www.godaddy.com are pretty cheap and reliable (although I moved away from them when I saw how they advertise). Also https://www.registerfly.com are cheap, but had problems with hosting - website down for at least two weeks (would have been longer, but I moved hosting providers) - currently use them for domain registration only.

At the moment I am using Yahoo for hosting and also one of my domains. hosting is around £6 per month, with no minimum term - more expensive than both the above, but more reliable too. For that you get 5Gb disk space and 200 2Gb email addresses for your domain. Domain registration with them is around £11 (can't give exact figures, as I pay in dollars to yahoo.com).

https://www.123-reg.co.uk offer some free hosting I think with domain names, so maybe an inexpensive way to start out. Also look out for free hosting (yahoo also offer this since they bought geocities), but most often you find that free hosting means the hosting service puts adverts on your website as well - you don't get anything for nothing.

Software-wise, there are plenty of free open source products -again godaddy & yahoo both have some 'pre-configured' to get you going quicker.

Shim

master_blaster_2

how do godaddy advertise?
i was thinking of using them

colin79666

I use http://www.web-mania.com for my hosting and http://www.123-reg.co.uk for my domains