Hosting questions

[sunnylass]

Its dawned on me that I'm going to need more webspace, and I have absolutely no idea where to look, who to contact etc.

Rather than ring every Joe Bloggs around, I thought I would ask on here first.

[radar]

Not sure what your requirements are but the site here is hosted at Dreamhost. I also use them for my site and they have heaps of features to make use of.

http://www.dreamhost.com

cheers,

André

[sunnylass]

Thank you for that Andre, I will definitely check them out.

I've made do with the 10mb allocated with my connection, but the more work I'm getting, the quicker I've realised that I have no room left!

[gstark]

What Andre said.

Dreamhost are very feature-rich and thus very goods value, and with each account you also get a free domain name registration.

You can also use Scott's discount code so that your first year of hosting costs you all of .... US$20.

It's not all beer and pretzels at DH though, dynamic sites, such as this one, can suffer some issues due to limitations that they may put on your memory and resource utilisation.

But for static sites, the available features, bandwidth and storage allownaces are difficult to beat.

I'd rate my satisfaction level with them at about 70%, which, for a hosting company, I think would be pretty high.

[jamesw]

i use mdwebhosting for all of my clients and my own personal website + forums

http://www.mdwebhosting.com.au

admittedly the forums are not the busiest, hit about 100-500 posts a day and 160 unique visits per day, but i have never had an issue with them at all.

i pay 9.90 p/month and get 2500mb storage, unlim bandwidth, subdomains, etc. they use a cpanel interface for your settings etc, so you have a reasonable degree of customisation, they also have lots of scripts all ready there for you to put on.

another cool feature is they let you piggy back multiple domains off the same hosting plan.

for example, i initially had my hosting setup for jamesdwade.com. because i am so busy, i really havent got the page setup (it's just a placeholder with some basic information, contact details, website portfolio etc). there is 2.5gig of storage and the bandwidth use is pretty low... but i am able to use the jamesdwade.com hosting to also host my clothing website at http://www.dishonourclothing.com. it means that i only pay the one hosting fee but have two domains off the back of that plan. it means its cheaper and i actually use some of the space and bandwidth.