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I am looking for recommendations for a website hosting service for my soon-to-be-finished website. This will be a modest website of about 15 pages with no ecommerce or anything particularly fancy. Many OLFers have very nice websites and hopefully have good experience with a reasonable hosting organization.

1and1.com $3.99 per month with HUGE storage...

I have a referral link for them on my website.

Highly recommended!

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
http://www.cornerstoneukes.com

Lunarpages.com has been working quite well for me.

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Tickle your guitar daily, and it'll tickle you back.

Startlogic.com has good rates, a lot of storage, and a great email interface.
-j.

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“If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting”
-jack handy

Having hosted sites for about a year myself, I recommend eleven2.com.
Reasons being:

1) $6.99 a month

2) You may know that airlines oversell, hotels overbook, etc. So do hosts.
They show you enormous amounts of storage knowing you'll use a
fraction. They oversell their server, which amounts to a lot of traffic
eating too few resources.      

3) eleven2 doesn't oversell, meaning you get what you think you do, and
the servers run noticably faster. They're extremely well maintained.

4) They're friends of mine and have some inside info. They're about to
release a software they developed for themselves that will give you the
most flexible way to manage your account and domains that I know of.

I'm real happy so far HostPC. I found out about them on a web forum for computer nerds and they were spoken of highly. $35 a year for the budget plan, not including domain name registration. I signed up during one of their specials where they double everything (bandwidth, server space, etc). When I logged in to the control panel for the first time, my quotas were all at the original levels, so I put in a request at the help desk and it was fixed within ten minutes.

By the way, I've found out it's a good idea to not register your domain name with your hosting company, do it yourself with godaddy.com or someone else like that... It makes switching service providers later on much easier.

edit: Also want to add, they are pretty adamant about not over-selling like a lot of the bargain places do.letseatpaste39056.7587152778

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

I've been using topclasshost.com for the past four years or so. Very reliable, $5.95 a month, and lots and lots of storage and bandwidth. Plus, they throw in quite a few goodies, including a decent selection of website templates to choose from to get you started with your website, and forum software, in case you'd ever want to start your own forum.

Best,

Michael

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Live to Play, Play to Live

1and1.com

1 domain name
5 GB web space
500 e-mail accounts
250 GB traffic

plus FREE websitebuilder

$2.99 per month

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
http://www.cornerstoneukes.com

One thing you might want to do is call these different hosts and make a
decision based on the way they speak with you. If you can't find a
number on their site, that's a red flag.

i use freewebs.com about $10/year

Mark, I use Yahoo Small Business. 11.95 a month includes your domain name. Been with them about two years now. Excellent service and techfolk who talk normal language. Great email support as well as phone.

I wanted to start an additional site without starting over. I got a second domain name built a page to start that one and now it has close to 100 pages as well, all hosted on my original website. The add-on site is bigger than my original site. The extra domain costs a whopping $10 extra a year.

I went with Yahoo because I felt they would be competitive, be big enough to handle my business without going under, and I've been very pleased.

Maintaining a website can be a pain. They furnish Yahoo Sitebuilder and it does it all for me. I didn't have to purchase any software. So, good luck in your search. Looks like many good ways to go here. I liked the fact that you can start with practically no money upfront. Total outlay annually is $144, plus $10 for the second site domain, hosted on the first site but cloaked so no one knows it. Pretty cool. I like Yahoo. James

I second 1and1.com

dreamhost.com has lots of goodies (galary, blog, etc) and if you search google there is a coupon that gets the price down to about $25 a year.