Anyone knows of really cheap but good (==stable) server hosting with about 100 MB of web space and at least 25 GB of bandwidth allowance per month? Please let us know, as we are completely out of bandwidth for the month (this is why screenshots for older articles do not work anymore, our mirrors for images are disabled). Because of the way our mirroring system works, the server should support direct linking to files (not to require to load images together with ads or via web page instead of direct linking), while SSH support is surely preferrable but not required. If you are a hosting provider and you would like to sponsor us for an exchange of a linked logo/button on our site, we are open for discussing the possiblity. We do not need fancy features (eg. mysql, php), just LOTS of bandwith for cheap!OSNews does great expanding itself (we finished September with more than 71,000 daily average impressions), but of course, this requires more bandwidth, so we migh be forced to not include screenshots or other images for our future articles. I estimate that we need between 50 and 100 GB of bandwidth monthly on OSNews (actual figure depends on the kind of articles we run each month). The way we do it now is share the bandwidth absorbed by our images between multiple mirrors. The main osnews site only hosts the php files and the database, no images.
On other news, OSNews has been added to NewsInterceptor, while we still support KlipFolio.
I can give you guys maybe 50mb/10gb..i am not
sure about the webspace, bandwidth is not a big problem.
I will see the follow up if your are intressted
Bas
Sure, please email us and let us know more about it!
http://www.phpwebhosting.com
I run a community off their services. And I get ALOT of traffic. You can check it out here if you like to see speed >> http://www.localrockstars.com
I’m sure if you email them, they will also give you more detail on what you CAN do and use.
Hope that works out for you guys, i have known about this site for a couple weeks now and I love it!
http://www.dreamhost.com
I am not sure they will like us. They say about their unmeter bandwidth:
“File Archives/download only:
Does this mean I can’t have family photo albums, or other types of file archives?
Family photo albums, or other general purpose photo galleries are almost always fine. Our restrictions are mainly against an archive of photos, for example, of music artists, tv clips, or other types of archives that attract a large amount of traffic and cause problems for all the other users on the server.
Even the examples we just gave as being “unacceptable” can be fine as long as they do not cause exessive use of system resources. We do not have any bans on any particular files types or content”
Yeah, right… at $300 per month…
I hope you guys find something!!
In germany there are some good offers like http://www.hetzner.de. They have an “entry server”,
AMD Duron 1200, 256MB Ram, 40GB HDD, 100 MBit network, 50GB Traffic included, 2EUR per extra Gigabyte, for 39EUR/Month. Setup is 150EUR.
I am in no way affiliated with them, but we consider moving our domain to them.
regards,
tuttle
Take a look at http://www.media3.net.
What about sticking with your current provider and just use shared hosting (from someone like Dreamhost) to supplement your bandwidth? You can store static content like images on the shared host and keep the dynamic content where it is.
http://www.ipowerweb.com
We are willing to pay up to $10 per month for a hosting that offers up to 20 GB of bandwdith. There are such solutions in US, I am sure. Powweb is one of them, but they are very unstable.
http://www.phpwebhosting.com sucks, I signed up with them when i ran into the same problems you are having now. They don’t want people like you, they want businesses like http://www.momandpops.com that no one visits, cause they cram 800 virtual servers onto one machine. I went with them, paid 3 months in advance, and they canceled my account within 1 week and didn’t repay me. And no i wasn’t a download/mp3/warze site. I just generated a lot of small html traffic. I didn’t exceed the max, but i came damn close, and theses companies bet you’ll get no where near the max, that is why the offers seems so good. I’m also gonna give a no go on hostrocket.com if anyone mentions them, they’ve lost the server a client of mine is hosted on 3 times in the last year… hardware failure…
I’ve got colod stuff at he.net, their great based on the colo service i would guest their hosting stuff is good to, i know they offer ssh/ftp/mysql/php/perl so check it out at he.net …
> What about sticking with your current provider and just use shared hosting (from someone like Dreamhost) to supplement your bandwidth? You can store static content like images on the shared host and keep the dynamic content where it is.
BUT THAT’S what we do!! We have dynamic content on osnews.com and we get the images from the mirrors!
Dreamhost is just too expensive for us.
>We are willing to pay up to $10 per month for a hosting that
>offers up to 20 GB of bandwdith. There are such solutions in
>US, I am sure. Powweb is one of them, but they are very
>unstable.
Is that for colocation or a leased server? It seems extremely cheap to me, so it does not surprise me that it is unstable. What are your demands regarding the hardware? Do you need a fast machine or just a fast network? Maybe you should share the server with some friends.
Our site generates a lot of traffic, but our old celeron 700 handles it just fine with a lot of unused capacity.
regards,
tuttle
For $9.95 a month, Dreamhost has a plan (“Crazy Domain Insane”) that includes 150 MB of disk space, 20GB/month of bandwidth, plus a free domain registration (like osnews-is-a-bandwidth-pig.com
I’ve been a customer of theirs for a few years now and have been happy with their service.
>Is that for colocation or a leased server?
We just need some shared servers to throw in some images! Nothing fancy! NO dedicated hosting. http://www.OSNews.com text files are fine on the current server, it just the images needs a home!
>Do you need a fast machine or just a fast network?
Just lots of bandwidth for the images!
Maybe it’s time to start asking people to kick in to help fund your site, if advertising isn’t cutting it. Or maybe you should stop posting such popular articles like the Red Hat 8 review
Ok, I will check them out. They support direct linking to files without requiring being inside a webpage, right?
One good place to try would be Rackshack (www.rackshack.net), a Houston based company that is part of Everyone’s Internet. A white box linux server with 60 gb of space and 400 gb of bandwidth allowance is just $99 a month. Space on a shared server starts at $10 a month for 100 mb.
The Icestorm Network is a good host offering reliable and fast service:
http://www.icestorm.com/2gig.html
Eugenia, Dreamhost doesn’t have any restrictions based on the referring URL for hosted files, so you won’t have to stick them in a Dreamhosted web page or anything.
http://www.he.net is a great service, they are stable and inexpensive.
http://www.webmasters.com
check out http://www.hostrocket.com
I use them, and have been recommending them for some time now. They are overall pretty good in terms of pricing and plans. I like them because of the service you get, and their overall stability. Good luck on finding a host!
400 GB Monthly Transfer for $99 sounds good. I will talk to the person who pays the bills here, David, for it..
>www.he.net is a great service, they are stable and inexpensive.
I know he.net, my husband is hosting his site there. He.net ARE VERY GOOD, but they are very expensive on the per GB bandwdith. We need LOTS of bandwdith for LESS money! We do not need other fancy stuff like frontpage extensions or mysql. Just bandwidth!
I have a very high traffic site. And I havent had one problem with them. But what OSnews.com wants to do phpwebhosting.com cant provide them. Simple as that.
You guys will get something going!
Excellent host! I used them for almost 2 years before pulling my sites down due to a move on my part.
Service is fairly good (avg. of 24-48 hours for most emailed responses), and the host itself is very stable. I never experienced any down time, and their admin interfaces are fairly self explanatory. I’ve reccomended them to several other business over the years.
Somehow, these guys offer 50 GB transfer for $5.75 a month!
http://www.liquidweb.com and http://www.site5.com are the best web hosting companies that I ever have paid, but I don’t know if they are what you want.
I hope, someday one of company will offter you or you ask them for the support and spaces/bandwidths, but you will have to add banner or whatever what’s deal.
http://www.netmar.com offers unlimited bandwidth
http://www.netmar.com offers unlimited bandwidth
Well, sorry, there’s no such of unlimit bandwidth and disk space. Once, I see hosting company with the unlimit bandwidth and disk space, I always make sure to keep it away from them.
ok, time to install SuSE 8.1 now. I will be offline for a bit.
Thank you everyone for the suggestions so far.
hostpacket.net rocks
http://www.hostpacket.net/comparisonchart.php
You get alot for your money. It can take care of osnews, no problem.
No I don’t work for them.
It’s only the 1st day of the month, how can you be out of a whole month’s bandwidth already?
Because we had two mirrors. One took us offline completely yesterday, while the second one, Powweb, has NOT cleared up the bandwidth meter since last month! It still shows 24.4 GB usage (they allow 25 GB). And if that was not enough, they also took us offline, probably because they saw the big surge of bandwdith yesteray.
Eugenia, i would post a request on webhostingtalk.com, there are plenty of hosts there (self included but we haven’t launched yet). I am sure one of the hosts there would work out a deal to host your site.
If we were ready to go live, i’d host you for a link stating that the site is hosted by us. Anyway, it’s a great place to look for a host.
Good luck, hope this helps!
I’ve been thrilled with http://www.site5.com/virtual/comparison.html … maybe a little more expensive than others, but their servers are mostly stable, and tech support is lightning fast. You get what you pay for…
I saw ipowerweb mentioned… I don’t think you were planning to, but do not go with them at all. I had a very small site with very few hits, and it was very slow and down a lot. It seemed attractive at the time, but do not go with them at all.
I got redundant webservers ready for you, with a internal mysql database server as well, ill give out 25GB for free advertising or 2$ US a gigabyte, 1GB diskspace. Our pipeline is 100mbit right in peer1 networks datacenter. Machines are freebsd, database is mysql, all machines are 1U IBM xseries.
flip me an email if your interested
thank you Jonathan, I will email you immediately when David (who owns osnews) is back on the net (he is moving houses this week!).
Eugenia, be sure to look at Hypermart (www.hypermart.com). The self help forum I run is on there (www.transformations.com). We don’t have a lot of pics, but are heavy on graphics and it has been reliable and fast for over two years now. For $10 a month you ge unlimited CGIs, 75MB of space and a collection of tools. There is no set up fee either.
I want to commend everyone that’s posted here today. It shows you reqally do care about OSNews, showing such willingness to be of help.
And it would be more /. resistant 😉
Just a thought
I don’t know much information about this company, but the review I read said they were good….
Their prices seem very good though.
http://www.johncompanies.com/
They offere freebsd or linux servers. Check ’em out.
You *NEED* to look at http://www.eryxma.com
They use a Virtual Private Server product called HSP Complete. This takes a cluster of x86 machines and partitions the memory and storage into virtual Linux machines. It acts just like collocation but at shared hosting prices. You get Linux with root access and you can run whatever daemons you like.
Account setup is so fast that you can test drive a service plan for 6 hours. Within minutes you can telnet or ftp in and start testing you virutal server. And they a *SUPER* competitive on GB, HD and price!
I should point out that the system has great bandwidth and fast storage, but there is a concept of processor units. I have the Baby VE plan ($3 per month for 5GB and 100MB, yes $3 if you pre pay, see what you get for $10!) and it can run a little slow because it isn’t allocated many Mhz. It is only slow sometimes. I presume it is when other customers with more Mhz are using resources. So, test drive the bigger plans and see if everything feels snappy and fast. I am sure it will. I mean $3 should get me what, 10Mhz
I’m not complaining.
Cheers,
therandthem
These guys rock.
Tell them all about your site.
http://www.LMi.net/
Berkeley, CA
FreeBSD servers
Talk to Gary, tell them “Hylas” and JANIS sent you.
Tell him: MORE COW-BELL!
He’ll understand.
😉
like http://www.neowin.net
I looked at all the HSP (Hosting Service Provider) Linux partitioning products and there are many. “HSPcomplete” was the only one that from Apache to Bind acted like a first class, normal Linux, running on a regular machine. The others had limitations on what versions of Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc could be run on your Virtual Server. Some HSP Linux systems could only run their tweaked version of the server.
That said, I search out every HSP that uses the “HSPcomplete” product. Eryxma blows them all out of the water on price, GB, and storage. Don’t bother looking, but if you must serch for “Powered by HSPcomplete” in Google and you will find them all. In fact, Eryxma gives you much more storage and bandwidth for cheap than the majority of HSPs. And do those HSPs give you root access? I don’t think so
Maybe it’s time to start asking people to kick in to help fund your site, if advertising isn’t cutting it. Or maybe you should stop posting such popular articles like the Red Hat 8 review
then this site will lose 99% of it’s readership and move to other, free alternatives *cough*slashdot*cough*
I personnaly use NetFirms for years without problems. Tho they don’t seems to offer any 20 GB bandwith … sigh…
And plenty of disk space too. Let me know at [email protected] or [email protected], or chat with me at Yahoo handle berenddeboer.
Probably doesn’t matter since the images are the hefty part, not the HTML. But hey, why not throw more ideas into the pot.
Subquestion: Do web browsers from alternative OS’s support HTTP 1.1? Not mainstream browsers (Moz-based, IE, Opera) but stuff like NetPositive?
This is semi offtopic, just ignore me!
At http://www.fastservers.net you can get the following deal for $98.00 a month.
Celeron 1.2Ghz (Your own server)
512MB of RAM
60GB IDE Drive
Red Hat Linux 7.3
1 Mb/sec Burstable Bandwidth or
300GB Actual
4 IP Addresses
24 Hour Active Port Monitoring
I have an account with them. I’m happy so far.
We already use mod_gzip for the osnews site. Images are not getting much zipped anyway,
http://www.powweb.com/
We already use mod_gzip for the osnews site. Images are not getting much zipped anyway.
Yep, mod_gzip doesn’t help any much on the images, but HTML, CSS and etc.. Because, the images are kind of already compressed. I noticed, your screenshots are in jpg, which you could use gif with nearly same qualitify. If you have the Photoshop, then you can click on “Save as Web” then it will compress the images very well.
>http://www.powweb.com/
Powweb SUCKS. BIG TIME. This was our second mirror until yesterday where they switched us off (not for the first time!) even if we did NOT go above their 25 GB limit! We had problems with them and stability since DAY 1.
>your screenshots are in jpg, which you could use gif with nearly same qualitify.
No, my screenshots are EITHER gif, or jpeg or png, depends which one creates the best quality for the less size. Don’t worry, I am a gfx designer as well, I know about the tricks… 😉
http://www.blacksun.ca/
Know someone that has used their service and says it’s top notch.
Well, tomorrow’s another day, let’s hope this will be a problem of the past ;-))
http://projectgeek.net
Web hosting–without the commercial crap
http://www.burlee.com
I’ve been using them for 2 years and they are great.. email support usually answers within 15 minutes and they are a dream to work with.
I guess Hypermart isn’t the right place after all – for the $10 a month you only get 1 GB of bandwidth.
http://www.comparewebhosts.com/
try there and do a search, there should be plenty that come up
$4.95 per month
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Hostonce.com sounds pretty good. You guys should give ita shot.
http://www.hosting4less.com/
Pretty cheap plans, and have a few friends who have run their bulletin board sites off this and I have yet to see it down when I have been there.
Justin
Try http://www1.magma.ca/corporate/index.html
maybe a little highend but it is CAN$ == ‘cheap’
It’s weird, but cheap.
Bandwidth Needed: Monthly Price per mbit:
1 1 mbit (330 Gigs per month) $90
2 2 – 5 mbits $85
3 6 – 9 mbits $80
4 10 – 13 mbits $75
5 13 – 16 mbits $70
6 17 – 20 mbits $65
7 21 – 25 mbits $60
8 26 – 30 mbits $55
9 31+ mbits $50
Try
http://www.aplus.net/
Been around for many years.
Their SolorXR program has 200MB, UNLIMITED Transfer, 10 default email addresses, all web based configuration,
Unlimited sub-domains
Web email
Email auto-respond
Mailing lists
Mail groups
MySql Server
PHP 4 with GD
Perl, C, C++, Java, Python, TCL, …
Shared SSL
Own cgi-bin
MySql web configuration
Password protected directories
2 FTP accounts (more can be bought)
Backups
Dual 1.4 PIII, Unix with custom Apache
All for only $9.95 per month!
I’ve used them, and found them very reliable.
They have other packages as well.
I haven’t tried them, so I can’t speak from experience, but their pricing looks reasonable, so I thought I toss in the URL in case it helps.
Their Super Sized Site Hosting package is $29.95/month or $299.50/year for 1000 megs storage and 20000 megs transfer
Good luck, I hope you get a good host.
Russ
http://www.ehostingbiz.com
Something to check out.
This is the answer to all your problems…www.rackshack.net
If you need more information head over to http://www.webhostingtalk.com
-Paul
http://www.alphadimensions.net/ – Good price, in $AU…
Really cheap and reliable web hosting:
http://www.phenominet.com/
Eugenia,
Take a look at:
http://www.futurequest.net/Services/Packages/
I have not used it myself, but I have heard the highest recommendations. Further, take a look at their community, which seems to be a good sign of their competence and professionalism. I have seen them recommend AGAINST using their service for certain clients’ needs.
http://www.aota.net/forums/
While the $15/mo 50MB space / 5GB bandwidth plan may not be quite what you want, I’m sure you can speak with them, especially for a little sponsor link. Plus, I’m sure bandwidth is so much more expensive than space, that they’ll accomodate you.
Oh, and for anyone worried about webhosting lies, take a look at this:
http://www.futurequest.net/Beware/
It contains links at the bottom for sites where people compare hosts. Maybe you can find others if the plans at FutureQuest don’t work out for you.
You can try http://www.online.fr/
They are quite cheap, they have a very fast link (from the whole world), you have unlimited traffic. And best of all they support Free software (everything is based on Linux, MySQL, Proftpd and other open source softwares). They are also mirroring some Linux distros.
Oh, and they’ve been around for years. So they ar reliable.
They also run the free.fr free ISP. Which is the best I know.
They have some very good offers. For $21 monthly you’ll get 1gig HD and 45GB bandwidth.
http://www.phosting.net
Excellent french provider and are very serious
85 € / Year for 80Mb HTTP + 80Mb FTP + 80 Mb RealAudio
or
1Gb + 500 Mb Real Audio for 355€ per Year (~30€ Per Year)
See web site for several ‘plan’
If all you are after is serving static images then how about looking at Content Delivery Networks. Basically very large caches geographically located close to the end user. Fast, reliable and doesn’t rely on the availability of a single server or provider.
Exodus do something and I believe Akamai do. I admit I have no idea of the pricing structures but could be worth investigating.
http://www.exodus.net/solutions/cdns/content_caching.html
I normally wouldn’t recommend Exodus for anything but their CDN offering is not run by Exodus staff. It’s been around for a few years and has been shown to work extremely effectively.
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been using them for years.
they just seem to love their business.
couldn’t recommend anything better.
oh, and stay away from tera-byte.com
for 60 Euros/Year you get 100 Mb os storage unlimited bandwith (that is it’s shared with others.). check them out http://www.claranet.net
Check out Pair. They have a plan for $50 with 600mb and 18gb of transfer. Or you could get two of their $30 packages and have 30gb of transfer. They host over 160,000 individual sites. I have used them for about 5 years now and they are always on and always fast, very very reliable. I would recommend them to anyone. You probably could get some sponsorship from them too. I know they sponsor oscommerce.com an open source e-commerce solution.
Whatever you do don’t use ipower. They are a joke. I have had the misfortune of having to use them once. They are slow and oversold. Plus our site went down like 1 day out of the week.
oneandone.co.uk offer
300mb + 10GB @ £8.99pcm ($14??)
800mb + 40GB @ £16.99pcm ($25??)
http://www.oneandone.co.uk/xml/static/hosting;jsessionid=74F28A4843…
I don’t think anyone else has suggested them yet, but I know a lot of people who use A+ Hosting ( http://www.aplushosting.com ) and they’ve been very reliable.
Check em out.
Vaughn
The best deal I’ve seen (and use for some sites) is at bluedomino.com: unlimited transfer/1Gb disk = $34.95/month.
Server specs: Apache 1.3.26, mod_gzip 1.3.19.1a, Chili!Soft-ASP 3.6.2, mod_throttle 3.1.2, PHP 4.2.2, FrontPage 5.0.4.3, mod_ssl 2.8.9, OpenSSL 0.9.6c on Linux.
Check uptime specs for rlkco.com at netcraft.com
I’ll sponsor OSNews for one month at Bluedomino.com in exchange for a “This month’s sponsor!” banner/link the size of the “Shop Online with OSNews” button of my design (subject to approval) directly below it during that month. Anyone else?
http://www.imhosted.com 15gb/m transfer, $9.95(yearly subscr) and 500Mb , oc-192 link(10gb/s)oc-3(155mb/s). check it out it looks very good with its data centers and a great support.
Sorry to hear that you are having bandwidth problems. I am not good at this kindof stuff, so I can not make a recommendation.
But I think your site is a great site with full of screenshots which one can look at to better understand what does the OS really look like. Your reviews are extremely useful.
http://comparewebhosts.com/