What is the best web host?

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What is the best web host?

Hi,

I have finished producing two websites. One of the websites is a personal website which holds all the films that I have helped produce. It is basically a CV for people to look at on the internet. It will be a large sized website, not sure how large it will be, but basically need a lot of space for it, I would imagine. I have also finished producing a website for a dentist practice which has over 500 pages. Its current size is 150MB but I have a feeling that I will be adding four images per page to the site, which will increase the size. Anyways, these have both been created with iWeb and I was wondering what is the best web host to publish these with? Now that MobileMe has gone and iCloud won't publish websites anymore, is there a certain web host that all of the iWeb users have rushed to to publish their sites? I have looked at a lot of the hosts and they all seem confusing and their own business websites look confusing, which puts me off buying from them. I am looking for the cheapest host, that would allow me to host two website, so the dentist website and my own personal website, with no bandwidth limit or disk space limit. I have read the small print on two of the 'best' web hosts that say that they have 'unlimited' bandwidth and disk space and they say that it is not unlimited and they will either charge me more for exceeding the limit or they will shut the website down. The problem is that they don't state what their limit is so I am guessing that it is a scam. They are also only charging around £2 per month, which is fine but you have to buy like 2 years with them for that price. I don't want to do that. Would prefer it if there was a host that has a free trail, even if it is as little as 24 hours trial. Would also like to not be tied in for longer than 1 year. I would also like a host that has the domain names included in the price.

Overall, this is all getting too confusing for me and there is so much to take in. I just want to know, what is everyone doing now that MobileMe has shut down and iCloud does not allow Web Publishing?

A list of people's prefered web hosts would be amazing please. Also a breif description as to why you think it is better than all of the rest.

Thank you for your time and effort.

All the best,

George.

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.7), August 2010

Posted on Aug 23, 2011 2:13 PM

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Answer 1

Roddy

Level 6

17,265 points

Aug 23, 2011 7:15 PM in response to charmtav

The most important consideration with website hosting is reliability and good tech support - not price!

Host Excellence offer a 30 day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. Also read aout the "Anytime Money Back Guarantee".

Be suspicious of cheap offers. For example, Yahoo offers a registration for 10 bucks but wants 35 after that. Try getting tech support from them!

"I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link."

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Answer 2

Ethmoid

Level 6

11,488 points

Aug 24, 2011 12:35 AM in response to charmtav

MobileMe has not shut down yet and won't until June next year, however, they are not accepting any new registrations.

Have a look at http://www.hostexcellence.com and http://www.godaddy.com.

Both of these hosts offer good tech support and with HostExcellence, there is unlimited hosting and depending on which package you go for you can register at least 1 domain name for free.

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Answer 3

hughmass

Level 3

592 points

Aug 24, 2011 4:29 AM in response to charmtav

I moved from Mobileme to machighway and found their services and prices very good.

They are Mac people, so have a handle on the platform. But the truth is, I haven't seen much in the way of complaints from people here about third party website hosts...it would be an interesting experiment for Macworld or someone with some deep pockets to try about ten and give a report.

Hugh

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Answer 4

Sep 3, 2011 7:14 AM in response to charmtav

I'm a fairly new customer of Host Excellence. So far, I'm very pleased with their product and their tech support. I will mention that their "chat" tech support isn't nearly as good as their telephone support.

Everyone I've talked to on the phone has be exceptionally helpful.

One major plus I've noticed is the speed in which my pages load. Much, much fast than MoMe.

For the record, I'm 99.9% that IX Web Hosting is the same company.

Gramps.

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Answer 5

Sep 3, 2011 11:27 AM in response to charmtav

I looked this summer quite a bit for a host to an iweb site to replace MM. After reviewing many, I found that Host Excellence, Machighway, and Go Daddy all would all do the trick nicely. Host Excellence and Machighway just seemed to be geared a bit more towards Macs. I decided to go with Machighways over Host Excellence because I didn't need all the storage Host Excellence offered and could get by with $50 a year with the small package at Machighway. This package hosts two domain names and comes with one free registration for the first year. As with Host Excellence, it also has a 30 day money back guarantee and good phone support. It also "came with" a great uTube vidio which showed a step by step tutorial for uploading via ftp that seemed--and was--foolproof. Host Excellence was a little more and their smaller, non-business package, didn't quite have everything I needed. The websites both have a nice layout of what they offer as far as bandwith storeag space..., so check them out.

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