Decent hosting service

[porchrat]

Didn't know where to post this as I couldn't find a forum for hosting here on MyBB. If this is in the wrong spot and I have missed the hosting forum then please could a mod move this thread.

I have been hosting with Axxess for a while now and I am really looking to move now and would like some input from you guys on where I should look. I am not really concerned whether it is local or foreign. I will go for the best deal and value.

Currently I am spending about R15 a month for 25MB of space and it really isn't enough. I am happy to spend more, probably around double that.

Anyway I'm looking for a hosting service. Nothing serious, would probably need the following:

- Maximum 100MB of space assuming no one around here checks their mail for a week. Even 50MB would be fine actually.

- traffic allowance of 1GB and up would be preferable, the higher for the money the better.

- 5 mail addresses at least.

- some sort of virus and spam filter would be nice

- ftp would be desirable as well

- support for things like php, cg-bin maybe mysql etc. would be nice for the future, but I don't really require it ATM

- linux definitely preferable to windows

 

[willemvdm]

I have my site hosted by Softdux on a linux US server. Initially when I moved to them I was a bit disappointed, but they've done several upgrades to their servers since then and things for me are running smoothly now.

I have my site monitored by siteuptime.com and below is last months stats. Note that the 30min down time does not mean that the site was down for 30min. Siteuptime check the site's availability once every 30min and 30min downtime imply one such check failed, for the month of September.

Service: Aalwyne

Outages: 1

Downtime: 0 hrs, 30 mins

Uptime: 99.94%

Their white packadge offer 500MB disk space and virtually every thing else has no limits, as long as you stay within the disk space limits, i.e. bandwidth, mailboxes, auto responders, forwarders, all unlimited, all for only R15 per month. Follow link below for more detail. I think it will be hard to beat this.

http://www.softdux.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=166

PS. No, I don't work for Softdux, I'm just a satisfied client.

 

[gregmcc]

I used to use Powweb but it started getting expensive for the small site I was hosting. Now moved to www.000webhost.com

Its a free service - no banner adds, 1.5GB space, 100GB transfer /month, email, mysql, ftp - I'm very happy with them!

And best of all its completely free!

 

[Bismuth]

I use Serv-Hosting, their servers are US based though.

For R30/month, should suite your purposes, check out Serv Hosting

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[Gekco]

Thanks for the links guys.
Most of the stuff I do requires MS SQL Server & .NET, but if I need HTML / Linux / mySQL hosting at cheap or free rates these certainly look like good options.

 

[porchrat]

A huge thank you to everyone that replied here. These posts have really helped me and all of those options look extremely good.

I will be deciding sometime next week and will more than likely go with one of the options mentioned here as they are much better deals than those I have been looking at.

Thanks guys