   Looking for web hosting
  Hey everyone,Our site was located at the domain sitesled.com, using their hosting service. It seems that the domain itself has been down for 2 days so far, so no one is able to access our site.I am looking to see if anyone knows of any good web hosting service so that I may re-upload the website, as we have no idea what happened to our current web host.As our OS Development Series was hosted at the website, that too is now inaccessible.Any suggestions on good web hosting sites?Thanks![smile]   
Gator HostHeard some good things about them. Whatever you do, don't use dreamhost :SAs well, I can offer you some space if you need it (Free). Just msn me: karan@uwstudios.com   ;Quote:Original post by Karan BhanguiWhatever you do, don't use dreamhost :SAny reasoning behind that? Dreamhost has been good for me so far, and I like how their customer service team actually talks like human beings. If you search online for a discount coupon (extremely easy to find, think the biggest it goes is $97 off) and sign up for two years of their lowest plan it ends up being only ~$4 a month (domain included).Maybe it depends on what server you end up on, but I recommend them.   ;Quote:Original post by LockePickQuote:Original post by Karan BhanguiWhatever you do, don't use dreamhost :SAny reasoning behind that? Dreamhost has been good for me so far, and I like how their customer service team actually talks like human beings. If you search online for a discount coupon (extremely easy to find, think the biggest it goes is $97 off) and sign up for two years of their lowest plan it ends up being only ~$4 a month (domain included).Maybe it depends on what server you end up on, but I recommend them.When my web guy had a co-located server in their dc on a t3 connection, everything was fine and dandy. Then he switched our account to shared hosting (*actually* with DH) and everything from mysql to php was awfully slow. Maybe it's just our account as i've heard good things about DH too. We still use the DH account for svn. But i know gator host's customer service is top notch. Just check their forums ;)   ;  Yeah, I hated sitesled when I used them. There site would go down like once a month, sometimes for a day or two. They were by far the worst web host I've ever used. At first they sound great, with 250mb space, but their service is horrible.   ;  I left gator host because they are a bunch of a smug morons -- they're fine if you have nothing go wrong, but god help you if you have anything past a simple issue. Just don't skimp, you'll find a decent place.   ;  Hm...It seems that they are back up right now... o.0 (Mabey they seen this post?)I am still looking for some more suggestions, though, for a backup host[smile]Thanks!   ;  Sitesled = EvilAt first, it's like: "Yeah, this is great! Free web hosting, no ads, 250mb."Next day: "Shit, what happened? Where's my site!".Third day: Explaining to website visitors why your site went down, and writing a nice long complaint Email to Sitesled.I'd actually like to make my own server to host my own files. Maybe convert Xbox into server? IDK, I don't want to hijack this thread, so if anyone has any tips on that PM me.   ;Quote:Original post by cemedias[...]I'd actually like to make my own server to host my own files. Maybe convert Xbox into server? IDK, I don't want to hijack this thread, so if anyone has any tips on that PM me.Generally, it's a terrible idea to run your own server. First of all, your ISP probably specifically says it's not allowed in your agreement. Second, you don't have the bandwidth to run a decent file server unless you're paying several hundred a month for a high-bandwidth line. Third, you have to learn a ton to make sure your server is as secure as possible, and you'll have to do your own regular backups and that kind of thing.Overall, it's just not worth it - you'll easily replace any saved money with wasted time, and the ratio of exchange won't be a win.As far as web hosting, I use DreamHost and so far they've been great. They offer insane resources, but they do back it up, and DreamHost-hosted sites have survived being 'digged' or 'slashdotted'. I've searched around a lot for high-resource hosts and DreamHost was the best I found even before they increased the limits to the current insane levels.Oh, and the support is great too. They even respond to silly things like "please delete the root-owned folder X because it's not used for anything"(I signed up once long ago for the trial only and decided my current host was better, but later on came back, so one folder was duplicated due to the two sign-ups).Not only that, but they provide shell access and allow things like using a custom compile of PHP. It's supremely flexible, which is awesome even when you'll probably never need it - nice to know it's there if you ever do.The only thing I don't like is that there is actually a limit on the number of FTP users and mail boxes, but the limit is very high and more than I'll probably ever need.   ;Quote:Original post by ExtrariusQuote:Original post by cemedias[...]I'd actually like to make my own server to host my own files. Maybe convert Xbox into server? IDK, I don't want to hijack this thread, so if anyone has any tips on that PM me.Generally, it's a terrible idea to run your own server. First of all, your ISP probably specifically says it's not allowed in your agreement. Second, you don't have the bandwidth to run a decent file server unless you're paying several hundred a month for a high-bandwidth line. Third, you have to learn a ton to make sure your server is as secure as possible, and you'll have to do your own regular backups and that kind of thing.Overall, it's just not worth it - you'll easily replace any saved money with wasted time, and the ratio of exchange won't be a win.I can figure out what to do with the ISP, but I should have clarified my original post. My first goal is to host files on the server that won't be made public (i.e., for my "in-development" game dev team). If I can get it working successfully, I may decide to host my own website on it, depending on the circumstances of the time. Right now, I'm only interested in it as a hobby perspective, and am not planning on having any high-bandwidth usage out of it (as of now, this may change later depending on how it goes). Thanks for the tip though, but right now I'm more interested in how to do it, than the advantages of doing it itself. Just some tips on how to do it. And I also ask that anything else related to this topic is PMed to me, simply because I don't want to hijack this thread with something off-topic. Thanks.   