Sunday, January 13, 2008

Hub.org


If you are looking for a good and robust hosting company for your PHP 5 and PHP 4 web sites, this is the right choice: buy your own Virtual Private Server (the 'Premium' costs 34.99 $ per month) and create as many virtual hosts as you like.

Main features:
  • Dedicated IP
  • Unlimited domains
  • Cron Jobs
  • PHP 4 or PHP 5
  • Free stats (Analog 5.32, Reportmagic 2.21, Webalizer 2.1.10, Awstats 6.0)
  • SSH and SFTP (with root access)
Plans:
  • PREMIUM: 2 Gb storage, 32 Gb bandwith per month - 34.99 $ per month
  • HIGH VOLUME: 8 Gb storage, 192 Gb bandwith per month - 99.99 $ per month

HOSTBABY


This is a good and trustworty hosting company, with one simple plan, a very fast connection to the Internet (OC-48, 672 times faster than a T1, 2.4 gigs a second), 7 SuperMicro 6022 P6 - all of them running on FreeBSD - and a few tools to make online life easier to musicians.

Their main features are:
  • 500 megs of space
  • unlimited bandwith (additional cost in case of huge traffic)
  • Web stats (Webalizer 2.01)
  • unlimited POP3 email accounts
  • transfer methods: FTP, SFTP, scp, rsync
  • DB supported: MySQL, PostreSQL
  • a few free tools (intended mainly for musicians): Concert Calendar, Streaming Audio, Guestbook, Email List Manager
The price is 20 $ per month, and each domain costs 10 $

Free PHP Hosting - BOOTBOX.NET

If you are looking for a place that will host your PHP pages - for free - you can check out BootBox.net.
This is what they offer:
  • 10mb of Disk Space
  • FTP access to your account
  • 500mb of Data Transfer per month - (10,000 page views)
  • Server Side Includes - (real domains only)
  • PHP4 Support - (real domains only)
  • No Banner Ads or BootBox Ads - (real domains only)
What they ask is that you buy your domain with them: the cost is 35 $ per year

GeekHosting.com

Nice and cheap hosting for a dynamic web site - without too many requirements.

Main features of the Mini Geek Hosting Plan:
  • 200 megs of space
  • 5 Gb of transfer / month
  • CGI, PHP 4, Perl 5, 4 MySQL dbs
  • web based control panel
All this at a pretty astounding 1.95 $ per month (that's 23.40 $ PER YEAR!)