[DUG] [OT] Budget Web/File Hosting

[Brian Wrigley]

Hi Alan,

I've used GoDaddy too for a couple of sites, and had no problems. They seem
to be reputable and reliable and performance seems ok albeit a bit sluggish
compared to a premium NZ host. If you're expecting a high volume of
downloads from the site, check the maximum transfer volume allowed - it'll
probably be way higher than you're likely to use on a small site but there
will be a limit.

The prices they quote are in $US.

Another cheap mass-market hosting company I've found reliable in the past is
1and1. Servers in Germany, support in India and marketing effort aimed at
the USA. They used to actually verify that their customers were in the US,
but I don't know if they still do. Facilities and price plans comparable to
GoDaddy's but support is not impressive according to a friend who's used it.

Brian


----- Original Message -----
From: "AlanRose" <alanrose at pocketnz.co.nz>
To: <vss at vss.co.nz>; "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'"
<delphi at delphi.org.nz>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 1:01 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG] [OT] Budget Web/File Hosting


> Ok the price is right. Where is this hosted. Is that American dollars
> they are quoting.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> On Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
> Sent: Sunday, 24 June 2007 12:39 p.m.
> To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> Subject: RE: [DUG] [OT] Budget Web/File Hosting
>
> That's like saying can someone recommend a good car !!  The sad buggers
> will
> say buy an Austin Allegro and others a Ferrari :-)
>
> Personally, I use GoDaddy.com. I  have 3 sites hosted on there at the
> moment
> and with no problems at all. Infact their support is fantastic....if you
> ring them. It truly is 24/7 support.
> Their plans are pretty res. Too, and its easy to setup etc.
> We use the Windows hosting option and that  gives us MSSQL dbs, ASP and
> ASP.Net plus frontpage extensions etc. etc.
> Worth a look.
>
> Jeremy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> On
> Behalf Of AlanRose
> Sent: 24 June 2007 12:16
> To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> Subject: [DUG] [OT] Budget Web/File Hosting
>
>
> Hi, can anyone recommend a good budget web or file hoster. I'm currently
> using RegisterDirect to house a small home website under 10mb files for
> $99.00 pa It's been fine up to now for such a simple html site but I now
> need to store at least 15mb of files and I don't want to have to upgrade
> to
> a more expensive plan. I have considered using some free file hosting
> sites
> to house the extra files(downloadable files) but they all seem to have a
> catch like deleted if not downloaded in 14 days etc. Any recommendations
> appreciated. Cheers