which domain hosting sites are cheapest!?

http://powweb.com/

Powweb: $100 a year, 300GB a month. It's damn HARD to find a better deal. It's what I currently use.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Bigblah

$96 a year if you sign up for a 2-year contract, with 20GB disk space and 1TB monthly transfer (which increases by 8GB each week).

I clearly stand corrected. How long have Dreamhost been around and what's their uptime like?

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Roph

The Speed is sometimes an issue I hear. I wouldn't know, as I'm only on a 1mb connection and it always goes at my top speed for me, but researching on a few web-host forums, apparently for some people it's a bit slow sometimes. But for what you pay, you can't go wrong.

Going to have to look into that more. Powweb has always been rather quick, except for those rare occasions where anything using MySQL would move at a sluggish pace due to someone abusing the set up and them not catching them quick enough.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

Dreamhost does experience bouts of downtime. But in most cases it's resolved within half an hour, and there is a nifty system they provide to report and keep track of these situations.

Sounds about on par with Powweb's uptime, and to admit I'm fairly tempted by the whole package to pick up and move. Only thing stopping me at the moment is the pain in the ass it would be to move the databases of my current site...

On a side question, so the bandwidth increases by 8GB per week? How much is your bandwidth right now then Bigblah, if you don't mind me asking?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Roph

The disk space increases each week as well. If Blah's bandwidth goes up by 8Gb a week then we're on the same plan =o. The Disk space increase is 130Mb a week.

*shrugs* Disk space was never something I really looked at in a host, as my concern has always been about hitting the bandwidth caps, considering I only use about 240 MB across about 13,000 files and have been able to hit 10 gigs in a day with it. But, it's always nice to know that it's there.

Can anyone who uses Dreamhost provide a link to their page, though, so I can see what the speed is like? If it's not asking too much, of course.

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Originally Posted by Bigblah

By the way, GFWiki uses Dreamhost.

The GFWiki seems very slow to me in terms of response time (with a lag when the link is clicked, and then it loads well past that). The download speed itself looks to be pretty damn good, though, from that link Roph.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

GFWiki runs on MediaWiki, which isn't exactly the best in terms of efficiency.

Ok, so does anyone have a better site to get a gauge as to what a normal website will load like on the service? I don't want to seem pushy or anything, but I have had some bad experiences with packages that offer this much and then get either their normal or MySQL resources chewed up on account of it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Roph

That should be enough =o I agree, mediawiki isn't really that fast in general.

Yes, the speed results there were much more reassuring, thank you.

Originally Posted by Roph

By the way Arbok, what speeds did you get when downloading? Out of general interest. I can only get 120kb/s due to my connection only being that fast, but another person I asked reported only around 300kb/s.

I was getting speeds of around 700kb/s and, like I said, was very impressed in that respect.

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Originally Posted by El Ray Fernando

Do Dreamhost allow payment by Paypal?

It would appear that they do, as long as you don't use a promotion code.

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