[ale] [OT] Webhosting site

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> I know this has been beaten to death, so one more kick couldn't hurt.
> Do any of you know of a good (namely cheap) web hosting companies.  It's 
> for personal, not commercial use.  Mostly for sharing pictures.  Don't 
> wanna use sites like yahoo, etc.  I thought about running my own server, 
> but decided against it because of the overhead.  You know security, 
> power, etc.

Based on an earlier discussion on ALE, I signed up for hosting with 
asmallorange.com. For $25 a year I get 75mb of space, 3GB monthly 
bandwidth, and no virtually no restrictions on shell access, email 
accounts, databases, etc. It's perfect for my needs, which are hosting 
email and a personal wiki. Their email support was great during the one 
incident of downtime I experienced. If it hadn't been, I could have 
driven to their office off Boulevard.

Sadly, their plans with greater storage and bandwidth aren't 
competitively priced. I've heard good things about the following hosts.

http://hostgator.com/shared.shtml
http://www.site5.com/hosting/
http://www.bluehost.com/tell_me_more.html
http://www.hostmonster.com/hosting-features.htm

-Brian