Hosting Madness
Purchasing website/file hosting is sometimes like gambling. You win some, you lose some. (And in fact, some lose the lot) .
A few months ago I took a gamble and signed up to DreamHost, one of the most popular and widely used web hosting companies on the internet. I didn’t really know why they were so widely used and popular – they had a bad webpage and it all looked to good to be true.
I ended up signing up with a promo code and paying something incredibly low like $50 for a whole year of hosting with a free domain name thrown in. That price included 20gig of space and 1000gb of bandwidth! Insane. Not to mention every single week it goes up in gigabytes of space & bandwidth! Even crazier!
Now you wont believe what they did last week. Try: “Hey lets double everyones bandwidth” and “Hey lets give every 10 times more space.” No Kidding. I now have 200gig of space and 2000gig of bandwidth each month. Storage grows by 1gb a week and Bandwidth grows by 16gb a week. What’s going on here! These guys must be mad but it has happened. Some customers are even using this service as an offline backup hosting solution and just tranferring everything to their DreamHost account.
What now? Well I reccomend DreamHost if you truly want to host anything and everything you want on the web without having to worry about limits (this service is practically no limits with the amount they give you) & if you want a reliable large web/file host. They are even releasing new products such as files forever which enables you to store you files forever with a price that is practically for free! It’s just too good to be true – sign up before they raise their prices.
For those who are interested I have a promo code you can use to get yourself $50 off instantly. It just makes it even cheaper. Just enter the code: BLAZE50 when prompted on the signup screen and they will honour the discount for you.
Also if you can refer people in the future, you end up with cash in your back pocket or completely free hosting. So it helps to spread the word.
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what about your CPU usage ?
they will not let you use more than you payed
They’re not too bad. If you use a ridiculous amount of course they will disable any offending websites (just like any other host). I read somewhere if you use too much they may move you to another server. I’m not so sure about that but basically the normal user wont have any CPU problems unless they want to make a website such as an alternative to YouTube.
these hosting providers such a lot, they offer you amazing bandwidth but when you really use it, they suspend your account due to massive cpu usage.
its very hard to find the right hosting company. but so far i had great experiences with hostgator and crucialwebhost.
its very hard to find the right hosting company