Good reasonable priced HOSTing company

[suejoh]

I am maintaing a website for a club and they host on freeola so they dont pay anything but you have to connect to them as an ISP before you can update the site contents.

We use BT homehub and I dont want to mess that up by adding a dial up connection to freeola - not even sure I can dial up as connected to the phone via some radio transmitter thing - so my question is...

Can someone recommend a good very inexpensive host which I can just FTP to. Club obviously pays nothing now so it must be reasonable. The club does not have heavy traffic. Website is plain vanilla - no javascript, PHP etc.

Thx Sue

[primefalcon]

I am maintaing a website for a club and they host on freeola so they dont pay anything but you have to connect to them as an ISP before you can update the site contents.

We use BT homehub and I dont want to mess that up by adding a dial up connection to freeola - not even sure I can dial up as connected to the phone via some radio transmitter thing - so my question is...

Can someone recommend a good very inexpensive host which I can just FTP to. Club obviously pays nothing now so it must be reasonable. The club does not have heavy traffic. Website is plain vanilla - no javascript, PHP etc.

Thx Sue
Personally if your looking for paid hosting I'd say godaddy, on their mid plan which is 6.99 you can host unlimited domains on the one account so can get very affordable. otherwise it's about 4.99

with them you get ftp, php, mysql, shell scripts, cron, ssh, sftp, htaccess, php.ini files, not to mention a ton more stuff, and this is all on their shared hosting.

The only issue with them is if you need advanced tech support you'll have to wait a day or so since they have 2 levels of tech support (most do these days anyhow) basic script readers and true technical people, basically anything the script readers can't handle they'll either ask advice from upper which will be just as quick or they'll completely refer you to upper level which is what will take the extra day.

But honestly I am with them and have a 7k traffic a week unique without any troubles, I run ssh and cron commonly for tasks as well as even having some html pages generated by bash scripts.

Just to round off this advise if you are looking for free hosting freehostia and x10hosting are pretty good, there's a new one coming up that is looking to be decent as well and that is welfarehost.com, welfare host really provide paid services for free, we'll see how they go but they're shaping up to be pretty damm good.

As for dedicated, I'd really advise learning to do it yourself, you can get away with managing your own for around $85-$90 a month which is line costs as well as electricity, if you paid for dedicated you'd be looking around at anywhere between $300 to $500 a month otherwise, and really if you stick to Lamp tech, they really are pretty easy to learn and manage effectively. And you won't have any company telling you what you can or cannot do then. So fork out for the machine and quickly make your money back.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

I second freehostia if you are looking for something free. The only downside is you need to renew your account each year. That of course is free. My website is hosted with www.siteflip.com

I'm paying about a dollar a month. It comes with fantastico, cpanel, no limit on databases, subdomains, or email addresses.

[suejoh]

Thanks both of you. Had a look at your sites too. Good stuff - Impressive.

What I aspire to. But one step at a time. :-)

Sue