Hosting

[Stable]

Who would you guys recommend for fairly cheap but reliable hosting? I want to start a couple of sites and was thinking of using wordpress, but I haven't had a website before.

[BobC]

1] How much traffic do you expect?
2] Will you use videos/high bandwidth?

[Stable]

1) It's go related so probably not that much.
2) No high bandwidth stuff, but probably downloads of pdfs.

Are you likely to recommend diff. companies for high traffic sites? I had thought to get a low priced plan and just buy a bigger one if it took off.

[BobC]

Probably best is to go free first:

http://www.000webhost.com/

If the site takes off you can back it up and restore to a paid host OR upgrade. This free host has most of the features of paid hosts.

Even if you want a paid host- the above is a good learning environment..

[Stable]

Looks cool, do you think I can use wordpress with that? They don't mention it specifically and seem to have a "website builder" of their own.

[Li Kao]

Looks cool, do you think I can use wordpress with that? They don't mention it specifically and seem to have a "website builder" of their own.

I guess you will have to manually install it, but since they support php+mysql it should work. But since it's free you could simply try it.

IMO the biggest problem with such hosts is that you need to use FTP instead of a version control system. But that mainly matters if you change the website often.

[BobC]

wordpress can be installed through "Fantastico" - it takes two or three clicks...

http://www.000webhost.com/fantastico

You don't need FTP - it can all be done through "Cpanel"

http://www.000webhost.com/free-cpanel-hosting

[Stable]

Thanks for the help!

[davidg]

You can never go wrong with hostgator but that is on the upper echelon of hosting services and would cost more as compared to average services offered.

I do not think that using a free service would hurt though as they are as well known to provide comparable services already. Some people mistake free to be not on a good level but being free would not automatically say the level of services it offers, but just explains how they earn from.

There are a lot of free ones out there that are definitely worth a look, even compared to paid ones.

[BobC]

Yes I'd agree. I use hostgator a lot and in six years it's never let me down - and I've seen some weird things.

I've never use3d HG above shared level - there are better offers around for VPS and deicated I think.

Just going back to the original point. I've played with "ooo" and it seems to do a good job and is pretty robust. Added to that having Cpanel for free means its a good introduction to webhosting. In truth, if the proposed website was to take off - I'd probably be looking at different hosting...


Let us know how it goes Stable - if you need any technical input post here.