Web Hosting Services
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Overview
Free or Cheap Web Hosting Services
100 Best Free Web Space Providers - Good free web hosting services are extremely hard to find! You get what you pay for
Best Cheap Alternatives to Free Web Hosting - Save the stress and hassle of "Free" web hosting. Pick a low cost web host and get the customer service you need
Web Space Providers Recommended by SATLUGGERS
Rackspace Cloud Servers http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers
Slicehost
http://www.slicehost.com
[Contributor Comments - originals in email archive]
If you want to DIY, I highly recommend Slicehost or Rackspace Cloud Servers. They are practically the same (technology and parent company, Rackspace), just billed a little differently. Slicehost allots you a certain amount of bandwidth and with Cloud Servers it's à la carte. I've heard that unless you expect high bandwidth usage, Cloud Servers is cheaper. I've been using Slicehost myself for about a year and haven't had a single complaint
- Full Disclosure: I am a Rackspace employee, but honestly love Slicehost completely independently of that fact
I'll have to second the Rack Cloud suggestion. Rack's Cloud has been great, so much so, that I flipped a colleague in no time when he had a catastrophic hardware event at his Colo. He is now leveraging the server services and since he's a semi-professional photographer, Cloud Files for backups of his data. For those who like to play, I'd encourage it. You can load a Cloud instance in minutes, configure and run. One of the best features is the ability to perform hot backups that can be used as new, or replacement instances. Of course you'll want to take care should you be running an email server, or other services whose data may need to be considered before you throw away an instance. A-la-carte usually means you pay more, but in this case it really can work in your favor.
- Full Discloser: I am not a Racker - I just love their services :)
For more detailed info on Rackspace Cloud Servers see Tweeks email of Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:12 AM, subject "Re: [SATLUG] re: hosting" in the SATLUG email archives.
