Hosting

[safetyhamster]

Hello

I'm looking for some good hosting that can handle my experimentation needs and wondered if anyone knew of any they could reccomend. I've been designing pure HTML websites for years and now i want to play around with Php, MySQL and ASP.

But the main factor is cost. The hosting must be *Cheap* :P
(<£20 annual if at all possible)

Any ideas?

SH

[Destrukto]

https://www.host.sk/index.php

Haven't tried, but check it out

[Mystical Parrot]

depends how much space your looking for
tripod (http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/) has 50mb of space for free
[http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/static/hosting;jsessionid=E4B5C8FFF901551E9716C57577CBDBA F.TC31b?__frame=_top]1and1[/url] im not sure whether that supports php but that looks pretty good

failing that use a handy google search and find the best value service
handy google search (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=php+hosting)


not definitive but im tired and its a start

[safetyhamster]

host.sk looks ok......

fulfils the whole cheap thing but a few major flaws imo

1) no ASP - not vital but would be nice
2) E-mail - YourName@host.sk e-mail...... urrrrrrghhh! nasty

thanks for the suggestion though

[safetyhamster]

i've used tripod before and found it mainly poo... it always seems to want to make you use its own (extremely slow) programs to mess around. Space isn't really that much of an issue anyway, i'm mainly gunna use it for messing around designing websites that will end up on some other host.

1&1 seems fine as long as you're doing exactly what i'm not - tinkering. It's really set up for websites that go up and stay up and are for some apparant purpose.

and google searches are great but theres soooooooooo many to trawl through.

Again, thanks for the suggestion though.

SH

p.s. sorry about double post!

p.p.s +'s for both of you!

[djnrrd]

*hint edit button*

I find www.34sp.com to be cheap and reliable. But no ASP hosting though.

Their forums are really good with people to help out on stuff.

Of course if you're only experimenting you cant go wrong with installing all you need on your own PC. Windows 98+ has Personal Web Server, and 2000/XP has IIS on the standard desktop instalations. Check Add/Remove Programs > Windows Components

And you can install Apache/PHP/mySQL on a windows PC as well. That's what I use! (http://djnrrd.kicks-ass.net - Dyndns.org are very handy as well)

[safetyhamster]

Just found this package, can anyone see anything blatantly wrong with it? (apart from the £7 over budget thing - hey, you only live once)

http://www.wiserhosting.com/home/web_hosting_packages/ws_asp_hosting.html

[terrrbite]

www.allabouthosting.co.uk

Very good hosts, and damn cheap too. You can create your own custom hosting package if you want. They also have 24/7 support.

Just found this package, can anyone see anything blatantly wrong with it? (apart from the £7 over budget thing - hey, you only live once)

http://www.wiserhosting.com/home/we...sp_hosting.html

Looks a rip off. This is All About Hosting:

STANDARD SHARED:
500MB WEBSPACE
5GB DATA TRANSFER
100 POP3 EMAIL ACCOUNTS
5 ADD ON DOMAINS
JUST £20 PER YEAR!

[Lewiji]

http://www.hostonce.co.uk

500mb webspace
25gb/month bandwidth
Free domain name
Unlimited POP3 accounts, with webmail or pop3 details
Supports ASP, PHP, ASP.NET, CGI, Perl and ODBC
$6.95/month, or £3.79 (Although that's at current rate, they charge differently at their own price)

I've been with them for about 3 years, they're very good.

[HiTmAN]

http://www.34sp.com/

Fairly cheap, good service.

[3v1l |\/|1NiOn]

Originally posted by HiTmAN
http://www.34sp.com/

Fairly cheap, good service.

third'd

[Twiz]

www.alivewww.com I got an account a few days ago, they offer php, mySQL, cgi, 50 subdomains(if you have a domain, they're great! £30 a year.

[wyrd_fish]

get a 34sp account, i use it for all my messing around with PHP and MySQL.

there customer service is exelent adn tere forums/ irc channels are full of useful peeps

PS any URLs to your work???

PPS click my happy-o-meter