Top-notch low-budget web hosting

[webado]

The absolute best deal to be had on the web for rock-bottom priced web-hosting I have found at www.solidinternet.com. The web hosting packages start at $30US/year, all inclusive, and include a minimum of 500MB of web space, 5GB of monthly bandwidth, 5 mySql databases, unlimited email accounts, unlimited subdomains and a nice package of utilities ready to be installed such as photo gallery, 2 kinds of forums (phpbb and ipb), osCommerce and many more. Fast and reliable user support is through their forum at http://www.myacen.com/forums/index.php?referrerid=1726. Make sure you visit the forum first and sign-up there before signing-up for web hosting. Lots of questions can be answered there beforehand.

Even if you don't purchase web hosting from them, that forum is a good source of information for webmasters, both newbie and savvy.

For the more cautious webmaster, there are full-service web-hosting packages available with even more features (very competitively priced nevertheless), including very fast support through tickets and email, from www.myacen.com, the mother-company of www.solidinternet.com. It all depends on how cautious or brave you are as a webmaster. I was brave (or foolish, depending on point of view) in my total ignorance and went directly for the Solidinternet package and I've had no cause to regret it.


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Not convinced? Compare these deals with those advertised elsewhere at $5 or $10/month for 50MB or so. Or even with the free web hosting (ad-sponsored) from places like www.netfirms.com, which is great really, but doesn't allow media files or any type of database and it is limited to a 20MB or 25MB web space.

No, I'm most definitely not working for them, in case you're wondering. :lol: I just like to lay praise where praise is due.

[eth84]

The problem is, are you currently under them?
What ratings/reviews have you heard regarding them?
Just curious, because many times, webmasters who are looking for a hosting company don't just go for value, but also for quality, especially people like me who has had bad experiences before.
Tell us more regarding their site uptime, speed, whether it is easy to use their services/facilities etc.
Perhaps if they are good, I may consider because I'm rather unsatisfied with my present host.

[webado]

All of the web sites that I manage, except for two which are in the process of being moved over, are hosted on Solidinternet , a subsidiary of Myacen. The uptime is stated at 99.5% for SI and 99.9% at Myacen.

Numbers aside, the only downtimes I have experienced have been during a period of upgrades to servers or some of the other infra-structure, and have been very short and well handled.

You will have to do a Google search and see what comes up for other views.

I must direct you to their web sites at www.myacen.com and www.solidinternet.com respectively as well as the users forum at http://www.myacen.com/forums/index.php?referrerid=1726 where you can get more information and also see the day to day problems and solutions being addressed.

I am personally very satisfied with the service. Despite Solidintenet hosting packages only offering forum support (as opposed to Myacen which is more personalized but also pricier), I have found it to be highly effective. The response time has been of the order of a few minutes to maybe a half hour maximum. Considering that most problems handled are often basically due to some users' own inability to handle something correctly, this is very good indeed.

[FlyinCJ]

What kind of servers do they have? Rock solid UNIX systems, or the Microsoft/Intel stuff?

[webado]

How about you go check that info out yourself? I don't know such details and besides, they are rather immaterial to me personally. My needs are of a simpler nature and don't require much in the way of fancy hardware. The single area where any of this could matter to me is in the ability to stream media files reasonably fast and that's ok, so I'm satisfied.

You've got the addresses and the forum link, go and dig up the information, don;t just take my word for it. :D

[FlyinCJ]

Cisco Networks running Microsoft Server 2003 for both hosts. Myacen is the dominate host, while Solidinternet branches off of the left over servers, which would explain the ever so slight amount of more down time. Was easy to make contact, which makes them attractive to me, but I need the power of UNIX. It's hard to find those types of hosts, so if anyone knows of one, say something.

Peace :wink:

[webmoriar]

www.chronichosting.com

I don't know how close RedHat gets to UNIX since I am not up on all the OSes but I believe it is unix based. I think I know another one that might use UNIX but I can't remember the url right now.

[webado]

Myacen & Solidinternet are Unix-based. They will eventualy have Windows but it's not available yet.

[FlyinCJ]

To help you catch up on the operating systems out there, I provided the following:

Common UNIX based operating systems:

Linux OS (Redhat, Mandrake, etc)
http://www.sgi.com/software/linux/
Screen shot-
http://anyweb.kicks-ass.net/linux/images/8.0/screenshot-14.png

Mac OS (Mac X, Jaguar)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
Screen shot-
http://www.stanford.edu/~tristanh/images/bibliographerX_shots/fullapp_workspace.jpg

SGI Irix (The mother of them all)
http://www.sgi.com/software/irix/
Screen shot-
http://home.arcor.de/gerhard.lenerz/images/Screenshots/irix-6.5-img2.gif

FreeBSD
http://www.freebsd.org/
Screen shot-
http://www.lynucs.org/index.php?screen_type=1&screen_id=10727749153fe8cdd858146&m=screen

Sun Solaris
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/10/
Screen shot-
http://anyweb.kicks-ass.net/solaris.png[/url]

Chrisooc, I transferred a small site of mine to solidinternet. You were right, no complaints, great service, and awesome value!

[webado]

Thanks, Chris. I'm sure it will come in handy to have a comprehensive list such as this.

I haven't had any need until now to worry about the type of OS my web hosting has other than as pertains to what it supports and what it doesn't, but perhaps one day this will be more of an issue.

That's why there are forums such as this - to find out about things hopefully before stepping on something squishy :lol:

[webmoriar]

Thanks for that list. :)

I just had a heck of a time yesterday reinstalling everything after trying to install WinME on my second harddrive to figure out how to get around the Dell Bios nonsense on a non-dell so my bro could upgrade.

[FlyinCJ]

At home, I still got nasty Win 98...That's why I can be found at my office almost 70hrs a week. lol

[webado]

At home, I still got nasty Win 98...That's why I can be found at my office almost 70hrs a week. lol

Now, THAT's a workaholic .... or is it? :lol:

[webado]

Thanks for that list. :)

I just had a heck of a time yesterday reinstalling everything after trying to install WinME on my second harddrive to figure out how to get around the Dell Bios nonsense on a non-dell so my bro could upgrade.

Errr.... why WinME? And what's the Dell Bios nonsense all about? or should I know it? :oops:

[webmoriar]

Thanks for that list. :)

I just had a heck of a time yesterday reinstalling everything after trying to install WinME on my second harddrive to figure out how to get around the Dell Bios nonsense on a non-dell so my bro could upgrade.

Errr.... why WinME? And what's the Dell Bios nonsense all about? or should I know it? :oops:

My brother got a Dell with WinMe about 3 years ago. He now (of course since WinME is horrible) wants to upgrade his computer. I just recently got rid of my Dell and built my own computer.

From my old comp. I put in the 13GB HD as a secondary HD. I was going to leave it with Win98SE on it but when I tried to boot from that drive it said it would only run on a Dell BIOS (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=define%3A+BIOS&btnG=Google+Search). So I looked into it and was told that you could get Dell OS's to run on a non-Dell BIOS if you took the right part out of the install cd. Well I just went ahead to try and install it to see if it would work before I did that. WinME wouldn't let me choose which HD to install on and it started installing on my main HD which was not a good thing so I had to power down my system and then reinstall WinXP Pro and everything else for the entire rest of the day.

More then you wanted to know probably :)

[webado]

Well, I sympathize with you on this one. I will have to go through a similar experience soon when I go and visit a friend who's purchased a second-hand Dell and needs to add to it the HD from another pc that died. Not the same set of problems, probably, but I can look forward to some nasty surprises. I was going to make her salvaged HD the boot one for the Dell because there's stuff on it she'd have a hard time reinstalling. I guess this may not quite work given what you've just been through in reverse, huh? So I'll be needing a plan B and C. :cry:

[FlyinCJ]

I upgraded my family pc to win xp, and I must say, I'm impressed...

[webmoriar]

I upgraded my family pc to win xp, and I must say, I'm impressed...

Home or Pro?

[FlyinCJ]

Home.... Pro had a few extra things that quite honestly, I didn't need for my home system.