Website hosting, who to use?

ZacD

I was using dream host, got a deal for $30 for the year, and now that the promotion is over, I don't really want to spend $10 a month.
I'm currently looking at
2gbhosting.com
and
one.com

2gb has a bit better reviews on some sites, I've also heard about people using dropbox for hosting, but I have no idea how to set that up with a domain, basically all I want is my url, email, and no ads, for ~$35 a year, and not having to worry about my site being down.

EMC3D

http://www.hostpapa.co.uk/

This is who I'm with, decided to go with them after my mate recommended it me. No problems and I've been with them about a year.

Ben Apuna

I'm using Weebly + Dropbox.

The ad for Weebly is only on the bottom of the initial page which I think is pretty minimal. After that I have all the other pages link to Dropbox which has no ads.

Weebly gives me a short human readable url, rather than the Dropbox gobbledygook url.

Dropbox integration is easy just copy all the public urls of what you are trying to host from your Dropbox and past them into your html within the <a href> and <img> tags.

Free and easy to use.

I think if you were to purchase a real domain you could just have it linked to the url of your public Dropbox folder.

I've heard that Dropbox has a bandwidth cap, but with a regular portfolio site I doubt your going to exceed it unless you win Dominance War or something.

Tom Ellis

I'm afraid I can't recommend a good one, but I can warn you off the one I use.

Streamline.net. Avoid them.

Terrible customer support, domain email that rarely works, and an incredibly annoying habit of upgrading customers automatically to their top end hosting package for 3 years and billing them for the lot up front. And yes, that has happened to me.

Swizzle

I use AN Hosting and they're pretty good. They offer a lot of tools for building sites from templates and blog software like Wordpress and they also just let you use your own stuff. Their in-browser tools for accessing accounts and stuff are pretty powerful and easy to use, too. Fairly cheap, as well.

http://www.anhosting.com/

TelekineticFrog

Dreamhost.com hand down the best I've ever used. I think my site has been down maybe all of 15 min in over 5 years and that was only due to server migration. Fair prices, amazing service and super dependable.

Joshua Stubbles

I use Bluehost.

Neox

TelekineticFrog wrote: »

Dreamhost.com hand down the best I've ever used. I think my site has been down maybe all of 15 min in over 5 years and that was only due to server migration. Fair prices, amazing service and super dependable.

Agreed dreamhost is awesome supercheap and offers so mzch. It was never easier for me to set up working svn repositories, workgroups with the google tools and such things

Jesse Moody

Dreamhost and what do you know... Check this out...

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49285&page=2

Conor

Dreamhost.com is the only host I'd recommend. $10/month for unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth.

Enter "monorail" as a promotional code when you sign up and you'll get $50 off (and I get 10% off my bill).