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Questions:

• What Web Host are you using ?
• What would you recommend ?
• Why ?

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Looking for features

• Storage
• Bandwidth
• MySQL
• PHP
• cpanel
• SSH
• Multiple Domains
• fantastico
• 2do !

and will decide based on

• Public Recommendations on weblogs/websites - more positives and no or reasonable negatives !
• Support
• Set-up fee
• Monthly fee
• Features

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Tips

1. The best is to pay monthly... If you are not satisfied with the host, you can switch
2. The worst is to pay yearly... You have to wait to switch because one probably went for the yearly payment for the discount - You could lose money if the host closed business before the full year !
3. ...

Recommendation(s)

1. http://www.doreo.com - no SSH
2. http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net - no CRON - have personal experience

1. http://www.asmallorange.com - almost perfect if not for some uptime issues! - have personal experience

VPS - check yourself

1. 2009 11 29 - VPS Performance Comparison - http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison
2. http://www.fsckvps.com
3. http://www.slicehost.com

Consider

1. http://www.webfaction.com - Ned Batchelder ( http://nedbatchelder.com/site/colophon.html ) uses it..
2. http://www.totalchoicehosting.com - no SSH, no fantastico

Journal

• 2009 nov 01 http://scobleizer.com/2009/10/31/calling-all-web-hosting-companies/

• 2009 oct 15 http://apisnetworks.com/web_hosting_packages ( found via http://www.theangrydrunk.com/2009/10/14/lifehacker-emphasis-on-the-hack/ )

• 2009 03 01 - http://lifehacker.com/5124856/most-popular-reliable-and-affordable-web-hosts
• 2008 11 15 - Updated recommendations
• 2006 12 22 - changed recommendation

• 2005 09 16 - how many web hosts have weblogs - http://weblog.textdrive.com , http://blog.dreamhost.com - dreamhost provides web hosting services to over 140,000 domains (source) and textdrive 3,958 (source) - confirm for yourself - Recommendations
• DreamHost (disclaimer: I get referral fees - will tell you how much when i get some...)
• HostingMatters
• TotalChoice Hosting - lacks SSH !
• TextDrive
• Compare downtimes, features, price and go for it !

• 2005 01 23 sun - Since today... i will use http://www.hostmatters.com for http://www.kishore.org - so far so good - if one doesnot need much bandwidth and also hosts multiple domains... then http://www.hostmatters.com is probably a better choice ! - you get shell access and fantastico too - http://www.totalchoicehosting.com is very good too - http://www.textdrive.com doesnot have cpanel and it is probably only required if you are going to need ruby, ruby on rails etc. My recommendation: http://www.hostmatters.com or http://www.totalchoicehosting.com

• 2004 November 29 - http://bloghosts.com is closing !!! - Switching to http://totalchoicehosting.com
• 2004 02 18 - http://www.kishore.org is hosted at http://www.bloghosts.com - I recommend http://www.bloghosts.com - I will use the word "highly" after some months...

Find below a list of pages (non self referral , list of links) that link to

http://www.totalchoicehosting.com

• http://williambragg.com/wordpress/
• http://www.lisa-jill.com/
• http://www.alittlegroup.com/
• http://www.handmade-invitations.com/
• http://jayseae.cxliv.org/
• http://coacalina.org/
• http://www.windsofchange.net/

http://www.hostingmatters.com

• http://littlegreenfootballs.com/
• http://www.command-post.org/desk/
• http://www.blogsofwar.com/
• http://www.handfulofsand.com/blog/
• http://wizbangblog.com/
• http://keithdevens.com/weblog/
• http://instapundit.com/

http://www.textdrive.com

• http://maczealots.com/
• http://mysterybear.net/
• http://stupidevilbastard.com - seems to be hosted at http://www.hostingmatters.com
• http://www.cosmopoetica.com/blog/
• http://ryanschwartz.net
• http://www.boogenstein.com
• http://photodude.com/
• http://www.addisonhall.com/

Links

• Movable Type Friendly Web Hosts

• What to Look for in a Web Host

• Christopher Heng : Web Hosting Issues (thesitewizard.com) : .....Every webmaster has to deal with a web host (unless of course you're hosting your own site). This section deals with web hosting issues like choosing a good web host, moving your site from host to host, dealing with web hosts, handling free web hosts, reviews of web hosts, etc.....
• Christopher Heng : Which Web Host Would You Recommend? (FAQ) >>> http://www.FutureQuest.net

• ComputerBob's Guide To Web Hosts >>> http://www.fluidhosting.com , http://www.venturesonline.com , http://www.christianwebhost.com

• adjacent.ca: affordable, reliable web hosting service

Choices

2) http://www.blogomania.com

• mirabilis.ca - i've heard good things
• Michael Kelly - mkelley.net moves from Dreamhost to BlogOMania

3) http://www.dreamhost.com

• http://www.wombatnation.com/ : I highly recommend dreamhost
• http://www.whatdoiknow.org : I'd recommend them to any looking to switch or launch a website for the first time
• http://www.mirabilis.ca : Moveable Type and Dreamhost: .....I no longer recommend Dreamhost.....
• Michael Kelly - mkelley.net moves from Dreamhost to BlogOMania

4) http://www.bluevirtual.com

• http://www.shaunc.com/ : I'd suggest taking a look at bluevirtual.com

5) http://www.cornerhost.com

• mirabilis.ca - i've heard good things

6) http://www.pair.com

• ???

7) http://www.futurequest.net

• Christopher Heng : Which Web Host Would You Recommend? (FAQ)

Interesting

• http://www.asmallorange.com/
• http://www.textdrive.com/

Personal Experience

• http://www.bloghosts.com - closed for business - realised this on 19-Nov-2004
• http://www.ipowerweb.com
• http://www.insiderhosting.com
• http://www.phpwebhosting.com
• http://www.netnation.com

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1. http://www.bloghosts.com

• Michael Kelley is using bloghosts, Server Go Boom : .....I will still *highly* recommend them to anyone.....
• The Flood and Bloghosts

http://www.symonds.net

• Kalyan Varma recommends

http://www.pair.com

http://www.csoft.net

http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk

• Mark Pilgrim seems to be using

http://www.liquidweb.com

• Heather Armstrong seems to be using

http://www.hostmagik.com

• Mahesh Shantaram uses it !

http://www.aletiahosting.com

http://www.lunarpages.com/

http://www.imhosted.com

http://www.vervehosting.com

More Links

• MetaTalk.metafilter.com:web hosting recommendations (or warnings)? : dreamhost, pair
• Nick Denton : Web Hosting Suggestions contains warning against dreamhost - oops...
• Movable Type Friendly Web Hosts
• Keith Devens? : Web hosts
• Rick Klau : Web hosting suggestions? : http://www.imhosted.com http://www.hostingmatters.com/
• Jerry Lawson's Hosts for Web Sites or Blogs : http://www.lunarpages.com/ http://www.webhost4life.com/

• At-Hosting.net - ASP, ASP.NET, MSSQL Web Hosting Services : At-Hosting web hosting provides fast and affordable web hosting services for your web site. We support everything - from ASP, ASP.NET, MSSQL and ColdFusion? to PHP, Perl, MySQL and many more.

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