I just acquired a domain name for my personal website. I have looked
into hosting the site with go daddy, but I want to know what the best
company is - I'm looking for the most space for the least amount of
money.

Hi brooke,

I have two sites hosted for mysef and have set up hosting for several
clients, so I have some experience with this, but I'm also not
affiliated in any way with any hosting companies.

I've looked at this a lot in the past and again today, and the best
prices and value I've ever seen are at AM Hosting. I have a friend who
uses them for clients and is very happy with the service and
performance - they even publish their servers' uptime logs every day
on their site. The address is http://www.amhosting.com and the two
cheapest packages are listed below:

Webstarter Plan - $4.95/month
¤ 25 MB of Storage Space
¤ 5 Email accounts
¤ Perl 5
¤ Sendmail support
¤ Real Audio/Video support

Basic Plan - $7.95/month
¤ 50 MB of Storage Space
¤ 10 Email Accounts
¤ MySQL
¤ PHP4
¤ Perl 5
¤ Sendmail support
¤ Real Audio/Video support

25 MB should be plenty of size for a personal page, even if you're
sharing digital camera pictures. If you need more, you can always move
to a higher-end package of service. Applications like a Guest Book and
the ability to use forms are built in to all packages. The Basic plan
also allows you to run database applications and dynamic pages with
PHP/MySQL if you're in to that kind of thing. The only other site I
found in my search that approached the price point of AM was Host
Save, and their information is posted below:

http://www.hostsave.com/
60 MB Disk Space
$7.95/month

I hope this answers your question, please let me know if I can add
more.

boxcar

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Clarification of Answer by boxcar-ga on 22 May 2002 17:54 PDT

To address the comment below about cheaper packages:

The only way to get these prices, as with most other companies except
those I listed, are to sign up for yearly contracts. In my opinion and
experience, this is not an ideal situation for people with personal
sites.

boxcar

There's also an answer from about a week ago that might give you more
options to check out:

https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=13751

Good luck!

missy-ga

You can do better than 50M/$8/mo.  I get 100M/$8/mo with
http://www.netmar.com/ . Other places that have similar plans (that I
have not personally tried) include:

http://www.verycheapwebhosting.net (100M/$48/year)
http://www.featureprice.com/ (1G/$10/mo)
http://www.your-site.com/ (50M/$5/mo)

That's just of the first few I randomly tried. Have a look around
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Hosting/
for other alternatives - there may be other features that make or
break the deal (bandwidth restrictions, content restrictions, port
restrictions, operating systems available, scripting environments
available, etc.)

Hi brooke-ga

I realize you have your answer, but let me add a comment... I use
PowWeb - the cost is $7.77/month.  You can either pay quarterly or by
the year.  I think the must have the best deal out there, in addition
to superior tech support, a web forum, and referral bonus's of 2 free
months.  I have had 0% downtime, have not had one problem with them
and would highly recommend this company.  They do little advertising.

Here is what you get:
200 MB Storage 
100 POP3 E-Mails 
Yourname.com  
Community Forum 
16 GB Transfer 
FrontPage 2002 Ext. 
WebStats  
SSL, MySQL, PHP4 
Control Panel  
99.7% Uptime  
24/7 FTP Access
2 Months FREE  
Web-Based E-mail
And More!! 

Quoted from there site:
"Our #1 priority is to meet our clients' business and technical needs.
With customers from all over the world, we have learned that the most
important criteria for web hosting are Price, Service and Customer
Satisfaction. PowWeb is built on these three core values.

Price:  Best Prices-We believe that everyone should receive great
services at an affordable price. We've slashed our prices in half. Why
pay $15 to $40 per month to host your web site? Our one plan
"PowValue" package offers the same high quality service for just only
$7.77 per month!

No Setup Fee- Since our setup process is now automated, there is no
setup fee on yearly and bi-yearly packages!

2 Months Free- Get 2 additional months of web hosting when you order
our yearly or bi-yearly packages.

Service: 
Control Panel-Administering your website is easy with our Web-based
control panel. Our control panel was created specifically for our
"PowValue" package by our team of programmers. Now, you really have
FULL control of your website!

Fastest Connection-Our backbone includes high speed OC12/48 connection
for efficient and reliable high-speed performance. This is fast,
reliable and unbeatable.

Technical Support-Your website(s) will be in good hands with PowWeb.
We provide 24/7 Email support, 5 days phone support and a community
forum with thousands of webmasters so you can share ideas, post
questions and answers 24 hours and 7 days a week!

Upgrades-Our development team is continuously upgrading our systems
with the latest technology, creating new tools and features to make
your web presence as easily maintainable and reliable as possible. All
upgrades will be availabe to all of our customers at no additional
charges.
 
Customer Satisfaction: 
30-Day Money Back Guarantee-We believe in running a fair and honest
business so you are completely satisfied. If you are in anyway not
completely satisfied with our service, we offer an unconditional
30-day money back guarantee."

The link to their site is:
http://powweb.com/

I'm not promoting them for any other reason other than they are the
best as far as I'm concerned.

I hope this helps you in your quest.  Good Luck to you!
tlspiegel-ga

I own two domains, and found http://www.tophosts.com to be a
invaluable resource for finding what fit the needs of my two domains.

Aloha, Brooke! I have setup about 20 websites with DigitalSpace.Net
and have been very impressed with their service and reliability. I
have always used their $3/month package, which is more than enough for
most sites. It includes:

10Mb space
2.5Gb data transfer/month
unlimited number of pop accounts, forwarders, and autoresponders
full cgi-bin access
permanent IP address
web-based control panel

and loads more.

There is also a 10 day free trial, virtually instant setup (no credit
card required), and no setup fee. These guys are just amazing:
http://www.digitalspace.net/webhosting/index.html

Yours Sincerely,

milesw

freeshell.org provides a free unix shell with 20MB space, you get
100MB space if you pay a $36 onetime fee.  Most of the other hosts
don't offer shell access to the account, which is a big advantage of
freeshell.org (telnet to sdf.lonestar.org).