which domain hosting sites are cheapest!?

Originally Posted by Arbok

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

Dreamhost have been around since 1998 I think. Their uptime is alright for me, as in sites that I visit that I know are hosted by Dreamhost have always been up for me.

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.

With any of the plans you get a domain name. For extra domains you can buy them through the web panel, or just go to enom.com or godaddy.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

If you want to test brute download speed, try this.

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

Serious Business forums are on Blah's hosting.

phpBB

vBulletin

I have a Joomla set up.

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

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 am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

I think running bittorrent trackers are somewhat computationally intensive, and may be explicitly disallowed in their Terms of Service.

Hidden away somewhere in their wiki is a page about this. It seems they definitley don't want you to run a tracker (due to the CPU usage), but I've seen reports of customers who have been allowed to after asking dreamhost directly for permission. I guess you'd just have to put forward your plan and estimated load and then hope for the best.

Originally Posted by jsphweid

Does godaddy offer good web hosting along with domain registration?
Does dreamhost addin ads?
Can anyone describe the interface? Is it all user friendly? I'd like to create html pages then upload them like on Windows Server's IIS.

I can't speak of godaddy from experience, but I came across similar opinions about godaddy as the ones about dreamhost in the webhosting forums I bothered to check out.

DH don't put ads anywhere on your site (who'd pay for hosting that still has ads ='D). The interface is pretty simple. I'd prefer a cPanel simply because that's what I was used to, but now I know my way around the Dreamhost panel it's basically just as easy (arguably easier) to do things.

I was speaking idiomatically.