Ok.. after recently being shafted by 2 web hosts, i've decided that I'm not the best judge of where to buy my web space from.. so what hosts do you all use? Preferably i'm looking for one with reasonable tech support and up to date servers.

I hope to own a successful website some day.

[edit] aie futurepost, courtesy of the Shintock himself [/edit]

[url=www.filefarmer.com]File Farmer[/url]

Random Fact: Shintok was the first person effected by futureposting

[url]www.fuitadnet.com[/url]

Edit: ZOMFG TEH FUTREPST LOLZ



Aye.

That's who I've got as well, they're good, just don't try to use the whole 6gb they give you. Every time I try to upload something big it says I'm out of space. Also the email accounts sorta suck, I don't get half the messages people send.

On second thought, they aren't that good, get someone else. :p

We have godaddy hosting at work, and everything works as it should. I don't think we get a lot of space though.

Find an old compy, install Apache?

but you need a decent internet connection too.

[url]www.1and1.com[/url] It really is the best. 5 people I know and myself use it. We all love it.

I use filefarmer for file storing, image hosting, and for my website (although I'm on a free account, so I don't get a domain name for it). The only problem I've had is that their entire file management pages crapped out for some reason, and the had to completely rewrite/rebuild it. Didn't affect my files, just my being able to log in.

That's not something you'd expect to happen all the time, though. I also hate that everything there is case-sensitive.

I was using them, their customer service blows in my experience.

They are very good, and every now and then offer 6 months free + domain name, or something to that extent. When they launched they offered 3 years free, no strings attached.

http://www.out-post.net

It's what I use.

They were the ones who shafted me, well .co.uk anyway. They misadvertised their VAT charges, and despite cancelling after just 4 days, I haven't seen a whiff of my money, even though they claim to have a 60-day money-back guarantee.

http://www.xmission.com

If Maddox uses it, it must be good.

I use [url]www.Filefarmer.com[/url]. Pity I don't have anything to put on it.

I'm considering moving to a new host sometime, but most of the places I'm finding are american, is there any cheap reliable host that deal in Canadian dollars?

[url]www.powweb.com[/url]

Been using 'em for 4 years and no problems.

[url]www.doteasy.com[/url]

For $8 a month: 1 gig space, 20 gigs transfer
For $10 a month: 20 gigs space, Unlimited transfer

It sounds too good to be true, but it is true. We have the $10 a month plan and it runs fast and is worth it (cause we use more than 20 gigs transfer a month).

If you are going to sign up there, let me know so you can do the affiliate thing.

/me silently waits till Cool Matty sees this thread or Noopectro sees his thread

I own my own, and pay not a lot, and host some of the mods in the community too.

A friend hosts me for free.

I'm hoping soon I can switch to CM tho. He has a better deal.

http://forums.massassi.net/vb3/showthread.php?t=35614 <---cough cough

And just for the folk at Massassi, I am doing this to make sure that there are no worries.

And since you've had issues with other companies, this might appeal to you.

Basically, I don't ask you to pay a dime until the website is running to your 100% satisfaction. After it's fully up, you subscribe to a 1 month payment via paypal, which does not charge you until the END of the month. So if you find that my server starts sucking for no reason, and I don't fix it, you just let me know, and you won't pay a dime. (Or you can cancel the subscription yourself before the month is up.)

So every month you get charged for the previous month, rather than ahead of time. You might like this due to your issues with other companies.


Also, in terms of up-to-date:

My server runs the latest PHP4 version, as well as the latest Cpanel, MySQL4.0, and Apache1 software. All of it is very secure, and I update any software requiring it daily.