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

[entropic.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually used my site for vids yet - I'm still a very beginner vidder, and haven't produced anything that I've felt isn't utter crap :). I have used it to host some AVIs of TV shows for friends to download and wasn't contacted by Dreamhost in any way, but I highly doubt it was even anything they noticed.

I haven't had any issues with going over bandwidth, because they give me such a crazy amount. I've noticed downtime maybe twice (for only short periods of time) in the 9 months or so I've been using Dreamhost, and I haven't had any technical issues that I've needed to contact them about, so I'm afraid I can't be much help with that either.

And I know you didn't ask about this, but I've been very happy with the upload and download speeds I've gotten - it took 45 seconds to upload a 25MB file and a bit over a minute to download it, over a broadband connection.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

thanks!