Selecting a web host - great value
I did a fair amount of research before I selected my webhost for my first website. I have since learned a great deal more. What I have learned has convinced me more and more that I made a great choice.
During my search, I discovered several host providers that had great rates, but charged extra for stuff that was really useful. At the time I wanted FrontPage extensions, these were often extra. I did not know what MySQL was all about or why I would want it. PHP, CGI, Perl, ASP, eieio. I didn’t know what most of this stuff was, but knew that as I learned some of it might be useful. My webhost indichosts.net included just about everything you might want to try out in a super low priced introductory package. Great to play with and learn, with enough bandwidth to do anything you might want. If you ran out of bandwidth, then chances are your website was so successful it was worth an upgrade.
The technical support staff has been great. Putting up with stuff like sorting out when my FrontPage extensions were incompatible with (fill in the blank). I make a habit of putting in tickets with low priority, as they get resolved quite quickly and I imaging they see enough panics from newbies (to server side systems) like me.
If you want to start up a website, I can highly recommend indichosts.net based on two years of experience. Straight up pricing, no bait and switch. And if you need something additional, they are very reasonable. Great support. Prices I have never seen beaten. I also recommend that you go with one of their Linux packages. After starting with a Windows package, I am currently using their L-1 Clustered Linux package. I have four domains running on it. The cost is only about twice that of a two domain package.
- the Muse