Website Hosting

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

Edited: a huge thank you to all of you who've responded. I am swimming in recommmendations and have much to choose from. Go fans!

I have been happy with the company that has been hosting my fannish website. However, as I need to store a large number of music vids, I need more space. The company charges $3/month for an extra 100MB - which means it is no longer cost effective to add more.

What I currently am getting: $40/month for 1.2GB and around 10BG bandwith.

I'd like to go up to 2GB for the same price (or cheaper). And be reliable (ie. if you go to their forums not filled with angry customers like a few lower cost ones I've seen).

The hosting company should also offer:

KEY
- subdomains
- FTP accounts
- anonymous FTP
- web control panel
- FrontPage extensions
- password protected directories
- not object to slash or vids

Nice to have
- 10-15 POP e-mail accounts
- e-mail forwarding
- autoresponders
- mailing list
- SSL capable
- raw access logs
- full website statistics

Comments

[cyanne]

I've got clients on both Verio (verio.com) and SimplyHosting (http://www.simplyhosting.net/) and so far am happy with both. Been with Verio for about 3 yrs and simplyhosting for about 3 months. I can tell you to avoid a company called Page Zone (page-zone.com), had some very bad experiences with them over the past year or so. They are probably too small to show up on your radar screen but I feel obligated to warn you anyway.

You probably already know this, but take a good look at the company's TOS and the fine print. Some are pickier than others when it comes to certain material, and even though they might accept "adult content" take a look at the section on copyrighted materials. No one's going to come right out and say it's okay but some are a lot looser than others. That's one of the reasons I went with simplyhosting.

You might also want to take a look at the forums at http://www.webhostingtalk.com, I found that to be a big help.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

thanks for your rec - the reason I asked for referrals from fans who are posting both slash and/or vids is simply because most TOS prohibit adult and/or copyrighted material. A real rec from a fellow fan who has been posting both with no problem is what I am looking for.

The same may limit my ability to use recs from forums - these issues are key to vidders and not usually discussed among casual & business users.

[cyanne]

If you've got time, and I can understand if you don't, you might want to take a quick look at the webhostingtalk forums just in case because the issue of adult content did come up several times. And I know it's not the same as vidding/slash content but it still might give you an idea of something that's a bit more fan friendly.

I've got some fannish stuff up on the simplyhosting server, but no vids so that's not as much of a real world test as you need. Wish I had something more concrete to give you. Good luck.