Can anyone point me to a forum host that is simple and compatable with importing the helios themes?
We don't mind paying for the hosting service, thanks a lot.
cheap and good bandwithÃÆ'ââ,¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ,«
canadian: http://www.hostingplex.com/hosting/hosting_packages.html
you will have to install your forum and make a database.... anyway , most server works this way...
you have a large forum or just a small one? if it is only for testing, I can install you on my domain.
rejwow@yahoo.com
how about http://www.orgfree.com ?
they are a free service that gives you 1 TERABYTE of bandwidth.
also, incohost.com is another good free one (4gigs bandwidth, 300mb space
as for a paid service i use shyper.com and i highly recommend them.
Personally, I like hostdeal.com
www.smfhost.com we offer totally ad-free smf forum hosting solutions at no cost.
There are serveral decient hosts out there, who can do a good job. Free site servers come and go - I had to shut mind down to so some spam issues, so all the free sites got removed.
One that is pretty cheap that comes to mind is surpasshosting.com. Their servers are pretty decient and the prices are okay - but their support blows.
I host my own sites. So they are SMF friendly. Best advice is to get feedback and check out www.webhostingtalk.com
And don't believe the BS people tell you!
well my site www.warstoke.com is hosted by
www.matrixweb.org
get more space and bandwidth for every 50 post we make on the matrixweb forums
so far seems great
http://www.needhosting.net Host my site as well other personal friends and businesses, and let me just say the customer service is awesome.......ever have someone call your house at 5am with a tech. question? haha
If you need extra help let me know, usally NH does not just host forums, but I can talk with the owner about it.
Seeing as I do his laundry, I dont think it would be too bad to ask :)
artichost.net Very reliable. 100% uptime.
cool eldacar
same here w/uptime
:) its nice to have good hosting :D
I was just talking smack about this site (good smack Bloc) and then Im all 'wtf your free hosting forums'?? I know where this might come in handy. :)
Remember when I was telling you about http://www.imgarchive.org/forum/ (http://www.imgarchive.org/forum/) Bloc? :P
Cheers all.
I'll be more specific. www.artichost.net aren't free, but they are very reliable. they aren't a "forum" host, but just a general host. php, mysql, ftp, email, probably more databases etc. Aparently very cheap for euros, but I'm not sure what it is with currency exchanges.
hm..that one seems like a choice for me in fact..
I now pay $12 USD a month for 5gb transfer, 500mb space, 1 mysql database. But artichost seem to offer 20gb transfer for just 4 euro - or rougly $5 a month, and with added 1gb space+2 mysql db. In fact I need to upgrade soon, since my transfer is now over 5 gb, so I would in fact be paying $20 a month for half the traffic of artichost - with same amount of space/db.
I might try these out.
btw 1 euro is $1.2 USD.
i pay 6.95/mo USD for 75GB bandwidth and 2GB of space
lolz you can try proboard: http://www.proboards.com/
Where is that, resurgence?
checked the site. it's now 4GB of space and 100Gb of bandwidth for 6.95USD/month. o.O
wow.. they're so nice :) :o :laugh:
We have our site hosted for free...members of our game clan are professionals so we have spent hardly any cash on this, except buying a domain.
Yeah Im all about the usd, no fun trying to convert the monies, did that on trip to London early June and Im all 'okay, heres my money, I dont care if you rip me off, Im on vacation' :D Bloc, let us know how the ones you test out are. :)
Hey, I use Hosting Lite, Shared Hosting Package and the Customer service and price are terrific.
They have CPanel, which will auto-install SMF via an applet called 'Fantastico'
Created all the MySQL databases, and lots more.
3 packages available
Package 1) Disk Space: 500 MB ; Data Transfer: 10,000 MB ; Price : $2.99 USD :)
Package 2) Disk Space: 1000 MB ; Data Transfer: 15,000 MB ; Price : $4.99 USD ;D
Package 3) Disk Space: 2000 MB ; Data Transfer: 20,000 MB ; Price : $5.99 USD :uglystupid2:
Also have unlimited; mySQL Databases , FTP Accounts , Email Accounts , Subdomains
http://hostinglite.com/shared.php (http://hostinglite.com/shared.php)
Hope this helps, and does not sound like selling.
borgBOB, I have the same with http://needhosting.net/
But Im being stupid today, whats the conversion with mb and gig? lol
basically 1000 megs = 1 gig
pengi, here are the deffinitions, from a google search.
According to the Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, a megabyte means either 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes.
A gigabyte (pronounced GIG-a-bite with hard G's) is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is "roughly" a billion bytes. A gigabyte is two to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 in decimal notation.
or,
Megabyte [ 1,000,000 bytes OR 106 bytes]
Gigabyte [ 1,000,000,000 bytes OR 109 bytes]
So a GB is 1000 times bigger than a MB
But I am paying $5.99 per month or $59.99 per year, not starting at $10.99 per month and $125 per year ;)
And to be perfectly honest, I went with a 'Power Reseller' package that gives me:
Disk Space : 4,000 MB ( 4 GB)
Data Transfer : 30,000 MBÃÆ'ââ,¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ, ( 30 GB )
Price (Monthly) $6.99
Price (Annually)ÃÆ'ââ,¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ, $69.99
Getting 1 GB more of storage, and 10 GB more of bandwidth for $10.00 per year.
lol bob, I read that soooo wrong oopsies
I get your point now, but I still doubt they put nearly as much customer service into it : X And their servers dont have alot of space, I think I will stay with mine, but its cool you found one that cheap :)
borg see priv msg
BorgBob, that sounds great. If I don't hear from the other arctichost , I will try this one. Bloczone needs a new home. ;D
Yes I will poke some fun, but mostly I have some questions.
Bob: Did you see this on their page?
March 3, 2004
HiyaCorp Networks launches it's new virtual hosting service. By cutting down on the support, HostingLite is able to provide unbeatable packages that support anyone's needs.
http://hostinglite.com/news.php
They use Cisco, wasnt that just hacked and does that bear anything in mind to someone thats hosting using Cisco things (not asinine, just curious here) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050805/wr_nm/tech_cisco_dc
If you can, find out how long they keep backups for & good luck (We all know people in FL. cant count, even though the owner registered the site in TX, I dont think they can count there either hehe)
:)
We (texans) count just fine -- cant speell is all -- Umm 1 chicken 2 chicken darn must have lost the others :D
hehe You know I just meant with the election and all, and you know, Bush being from TX
No hard feeling, your chickens are just hiding right now b/c its hot outside.
Cisco is a very good piece of hardware. They are used by most companies that I've seen. No piece of software/hardware is 100% secure. Just because Cisco had a flaw doesn't mean you shouldn't use them. If that was the case, I'd be asking does anyone use windows? <-- the most flawed OS ever.
resurgence: the question remains: are they reliable? I do know of that host probably, 2 years contract right?
The thing it that cheap hosts is that marketing wise they don't know anything else than showing off their prices. Probably they are also new and not so experienced in business.
I've known hosts like that in past, all of them are now bankrupt :O
With i've known i mean i knew the owners.
Dunno how today's cheap hosts are, are they reliable or not.
In any case, i don't even want clients who goes for the cheapest one, they are way too troublesome. One like that i had didn't even in the end know what he bought!
I had to teach him all thru about FTP, SSH and stuff.
And after i configured the services for him, for FREE, he wanted moneyback because he didn't know how to use it, even i had been trying to teach him for hours.
*sigh*
Vistapages has 5gig of space and 110 gig of transfer for 4.95mo. 59. a year!
I used them and there is no support to mention but if you good with cpanel (I was not =\) I havent seen a better service. unlimited SQL's, cpanel, fantastico, etc...
the problem with these low cost providers is that they really don't know jack about business survival.
Most of them go bankrupt because of their own weight when they grow, and service generally is quite poor.
They sound on paper really good, but on subjective matters they suck... And i'm not trying to bash them or anything, and even my prices are very low, but not competing on price, i've calculated everything to have sufficient profit margin to make it work for the long time. I'm in this for the long haul (and actually, there is going A LOT behind the scenes even right now, projects, marketing, plans etc. to make everything as good as possible, and for long term success)
I didnt have any problem other then I did not know how to use cpanel, or correct ways to implement different SQL db's and sites. when I went into it I looked at it this way, 5 bucks a mo. unlimited DB's works for me.
I use www.servage.net Found them excellent to work with. 7500MB of space, 330GB/month bandwidth, and up to 25 domains can be hosted. Only ÂÃ,£5.25GB per month. Safemode on by default though, but they'll take it off if you ask).
Quote from: gerrymo on September 24, 2005, 09:52:59 PM
I use www.servage.net Found them excellent to work with. 7500MB of space, 330GB/month bandwidth, and up to 25 domains can be hosted. Only ÂÃ,£5.25GB per month. Safemode on by default though, but they'll take it off if you ask).
How long have you been using servage? Do be more exact I would like to know how long they have beenin business. Looks good most provider limit the SQL db's which is what I avoid.
none that i have used actually limit sql databases. i used to use totalchoicehosting but i'm switching to protechgaming. www.protechgaming.net check it out :P they do have a limit of 25 dbs and emails for the green plan, but that's alot for $4.00 a month.
the gold plan is unlimited everything for $15.00 a month, that includes subdomains, addon, bandwidth, storage, dbs, and email. i guess there's no point for that if you're just running a regular website, but if u have more than one website and alot of hefty files, it's a nice service.
also, customer support is excellent :P
Yeap there is a lot of companies offering hosting :)
I recommend not looking for cheapest price, but taking into account the support you are given, if you have a problem, do you want to get answered in matter of minutes or days?
Also, with the way cheapest hosts is a problem:
they might put 200 clients on 1 weak celeron server,
while quality host does:
they put 200 cleints on 5 very good servers, and have in reality people to answer 24/7 to support questions.
Those are extremes, but something you really should check out.
I've used both ends in these kinds of services, and the cheap side of services almost killed my business 1ÂÃ,½yrs ago!
How they did it?
We got DDoSed, and they made it so that for sure in their DC all MY servers would be down, because their hardware was too weak to drop the packets and they needed to route it to somewhere, this problem wouldn't had occured if they would have increased my link speed for the time being, but they didn't do even that.
and on top of that, they didn't even try to resolve it, get it to stop or anything! They were responsible for that, but in reality i had to call all round the world to
get it stopped, because my provider wouldn't call to their backbone connection provider to ask them to drop the packets, and i didn't have auth to get it done,
they said to me that if my provider calls they will do that, but they wouldn't call!
I called all around world to get it stopped, and made some companies investigate & suspend clients with compromised servers in order to get this stopped!
I traced this all way back to singapore, to who caused this attack.
Result:
4 days of downtime because my provider wouldn't do anything, they simply didn't care.
When with a quality provider, they do this automatically, they see a DDoS and their routers take care of it far before it even reaches my servers, and all the time
this continues my servers would stay online!
Never mind that fact they used to have quite often unscheduled downtime without anykind of beforehand informing of it, many times i found out that servers
were unreachable and at this time they tell, yeah there is some network maintenance or some other bullshit.
and never mind that fact that they dropped my link speed from 100mbps to 10mbps without even telling me beforehand, not affecting the price on it etc.
on top of that, they were asking over 300âââ,¬Å¡Ã,¬ money to get the servers back, even i had paid them over 500âââ,¬Å¡Ã,¬ excess already!!
They were shitty company, and the odd thing is that they are considered major player in my country!
That's low cost headache for you :(
(If here is anyone Finnish, company was Mpoli Oy, located in heart of finland's capital)
Oh yeah, that can never happen to me anymore, i changed to better providers quite quickly and they do act on problems and support works.
The funny thing is, when changing my provider my total costs on this area went down, while services got faster & better! and especially more reliable.
This was because of a structural change, and 1 lost colo client on the transfer, plus some colo client's changing on big custom shared on this transfer.
Quote from: bzmorrow on September 25, 2005, 02:51:54 AM
Quote from: gerrymo on September 24, 2005, 09:52:59 PM
I use www.servage.net Found them excellent to work with. 7500MB of space, 330GB/month bandwidth, and up to 25 domains can be hosted. Only ÂÃ,£5.25GB per month. Safemode on by default though, but they'll take it off if you ask).
How long have you been using servage? Do be more exact I would like to know how long they have beenin business. Looks good most provider limit the SQL db's which is what I avoid.
I've been with them about 12 months IRC. The support has been excellent. Any time I've contacted them, the issue has been fixed/done/ or answered in a few hours. They've been far better than any other I've been with over the last few years. I'm not saying they are the best, but they suit my needs 100%.
Quote from: gerrymo on September 25, 2005, 10:11:35 AM
Quote from: bzmorrow on September 25, 2005, 02:51:54 AM
Quote from: gerrymo on September 24, 2005, 09:52:59 PM
I use www.servage.net Found them excellent to work with. 7500MB of space, 330GB/month bandwidth, and up to 25 domains can be hosted. Only ÂÃ,£5.25GB per month. Safemode on by default though, but they'll take it off if you ask).
How long have you been using servage? Do be more exact I would like to know how long they have beenin business. Looks good most provider limit the SQL db's which is what I avoid.
I've been with them about 12 months IRC. The support has been excellent. Any time I've contacted them, the issue has been fixed/done/ or answered in a few hours. They've been far better than any other I've been with over the last few years. I'm not saying they are the best, but they suit my needs 100%.
That's awesome gerrymo :)
I'm happy for you that you found out a host which works for you well :)
But don't be ignorant about my warnings tho, keep a lookout (i'd actually recommend tracking your own uptime & reachability charts).
I would be really cautious, because most likely they will get into trouble someday.
7ÂÃ,½gigs space, and 330Gb/Mo BW. hmm...
I won't get into maths here, but i did some maths (i have connections to lowest prices on earth on colo services), and they business model seems to rely
heavily on allocating more from a server than total of what is ordered. When i say heavily, i mean very heavily, like allocate 10 times more than what is the total
order amount...
I wonder what kind of hardware they run on, and who is their backbone connection provider(s), you got this info?
I dont know much about the server side of things. all I can do is point you to the info on their homepage at www.servage.net
As for up-time, we've had no real problems there. Only been a couple of times I couldnt connect to the server, and they were only very short periods (less that 1 hour).
I'm always looking at alternatives as well. I'm also planning to start another hosting account elsewhere as my backup and test area (just in case).
Quote from: sirius on April 07, 2005, 03:12:21 AM
cheap and good bandwithÃÆ'ââ,¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ,«
canadian:ÂÃ, http://www.hostingplex.com/hosting/hosting_packages.html
ÂÃ, you will have to install your forum and make a database....ÂÃ, anyway , most server works this way...
you have a large forum or just a small one? if it is only for testing, I can install you on my domain.
rejwow@yahoo.com
Whatever yo do these guys SUCK A**, they are also vistapages.com. I have had nothing but trouble with them! There cheap and for a reason. I posted help on the forum, and they could not answer my question so they banned me from the forum. Look at the profiles in Hostingplex and vistapages Kaumil is the VP over there.ÂÃ,Â
LOL, they got rid of the forums now.
But here they are side by side
http://helpdesk.vistapages.com/
http://support.hostingplex.com/
I'm using Imhosted (www.imhosted.com) and so far they are fine. Any issues I've had have been resolved via email within an hour or so and the DL speed off it is really fast (FTP at least).
I took the basic plan and paid for a full year (can go monthly as well) but my domain name is free with the package.
$95 for the year (about $7.95/month) got me:
5G server space
150G/month bandwidth
20 sql db's
up to 15 domain names added to account
unlimited subdomains
Unlimited email accts, unlimited ftp accounts, unlimited mail lists
They have an OC192 and OC3 connection, 24/7 support
They use dell servers with dual xeon 3G+ processors and 10,000rpm/scsi drives in raid 1 and 4G of DDR ram per server.
I do some video serving and I have used some extensive FTP DL's and found them to be lightning quick. Works for me.
I've been using Warp-Factor Technologies. - http://www.warp-factor.net
I have had very few problems with them at all and when I did, it's not been a bad experience to get a hold of them.
I have 4 GB of space and at least, 85 GB of bandwidth. Not sure how much bandwidth I have, though, as I won some in a contest. I started out with 75 GB. They're having another contest now and there's the potential to win $50.00 in hosting / domain / etc. credit with their company. I purchased 2 additional GB of space for one-time fee of $20.00.
It cost me $200.00 one time fee (it was on sale, usually runs around $400.00) for 2 GB of space and 75 GB of bandwidth. Depending upon the package you buy, they have unlimited mySQL databases, subdomains, FTP accounts, cPanel PRO w/ Fantastico, 100MPS port speed, and a lot of other features.The server I'm on is an Intel Dual Xeon 3.00 GHz w/ Hyper-Threading Technology (4 Processors), a 200GB IDE Hard Drive, and 2,048MB (2GB) of ECC DDR RAM.
I have no complaints so far, uptime is great too. They just got a new server for their shared accounts.
I wouldn't be suprised if a lot of these were overselling. Sort of like Gmail. If everyone actully used the 2GB they were allowed to it would either collapse or they'd have to increase they server's a lot.
Thats standard practice!
When I worked at SBC we oversold our network by 300%, under the assumption that not everybody would be using the network everyday all the time.
Same with these hosting companies, including myself. I am a reseller here in my town I over sell my space by at least 200% never had a problem.
www.classic-hosting.com is my hosting company. SMY friendly.. great customer service, reliable uptime.. check it out
yes, overselling...
imho, it's ok when not done badly, but most of these do something like that:
get a 2Ghz Celeron server with 512mb ram, and allocate it 7x...
Niiice -.-
Even worse is if one gets a VPS....
Which reminds, i should start offering VPS also :)
Also here at artichost (http://www.artichost.net), has plans just been enhanced a little bit etc, and there is a campaign going on at: http://www.artichost.net/octmad.htm (http://www.artichost.net/octmad.htm)
Try http://www.imhosted.com .
Mark
Sure you got the right link there Sunday?
I got server not found error?
They are having a slight problem right now. Keep checking. Good - fast servers.
Mark
QuoteI wouldn't be suprised if a lot of these were overselling. Sort of like Gmail. If everyone actully used the 2GB they were allowed to it would either collapse or they'd have to increase they server's a lot.
I just kind of assumed it is, though I haven't really looked to closely to see if they are. But I'm sure that they're not a company that's going to go broke any time soon. They've been around for a bit over 4 years. I might end up using the full 4GB I have as I'm currently storing a lot of my own stuff from my home PC on there (never hurts to have backups). :P
Quote from: eldacar on October 08, 2005, 03:45:34 AM
I wouldn't be suprised if a lot of these were overselling. Sort of like Gmail. If everyone actully used the 2GB they were allowed to it would either collapse or they'd have to increase they server's a lot.
There is so much web space available and so cheap, that I seriously doubt this to be the case.
Mark
Quote from: SundayNiagara on October 13, 2005, 11:54:54 PM
There is so much web space available and so cheap, that I seriously doubt this to be the case.
Mark
Actually you are wrong there.
Do you really think that google is using 3rd party services for their servers, or for datacenter for that matter?
No!
One 250Gb hdd costs approx 100euros, i bet they can get one for 60euros.
Now, if one user uses 2Gb, you could fit ~110 users in one of those HDDs, now, how much gmail has users?
A LOT!
lets see, just 100 times that, 11 000 users: 6 000euros for the HDDs alone.
Now, account in all the other resources spent for this:
Bandwidth
CPU & Memory
Necessary amount of IDE Controllers & Servers...
You get quite high figures!
Now, apply in the amount of revenue per gmail users: Not Much!
They'd have to definately increase their server capacities a lot, they count on the fact that most of the users won't use a lot at all, very little infact. just like
fractions of percentage, or power users might even use 20% or so.
2Gb for e-mail only is like having on your desktop computer 2 000Tb of HDD capacity or something like that.
Now how could you use all that?
On a veeery long time period saving EVERYTHING.
I know: my e-mails for the last 2ÂÃ,½ years take up only about 300megs or something like that.
Now you probably ask how much i use e-mail:
A LOT!
There is thousands of automated messages i've saved, theres thousands of personal messages also.
I check my e-mail first thing i wake up, and last thing i goto sleep.
Even now, my inbox counts on over 1 000 -UNREAD- messages.
Yes I think Google is a third pary search engine. I don't anyone has really noticed typ in search box on your main server. And look at what search engine brought up you results. If google did not do it then there is most likey a advertisement for you to use there service. The other reson I really belive that is when this particular in company started there stock was cheap as hell. And now if you invested when they first started you at least you can sell now and be well off. So who is paying these people. It is not use because the public only nows about major servers. This might explain some of the extra fees monthy. Think about it how many times do you go on line searching something. Your major servers do not contain all the information that you and the millinon customers they have are looking for.
Quote from: shayla025 on October 14, 2005, 10:55:17 AM
Yes I think Google is a third pary search engine. I don't anyone has really noticed typ in search box on your main server. And look at what search engine brought up you results. If google did not do it then there is most likey a advertisement for you to use there service. The other reson I really belive that is when this particular in company started there stock was cheap as hell. And now if you invested when they first started you at least you can sell now and be well off. So who is paying these people. It is not use because the public only nows about major servers. This might explain some of the extra fees monthy. Think about it how many times do you go on line searching something. Your major servers do not contain all the information that you and the millinon customers they have are looking for.
What are you talking about? You don't make any kind of sense...
"Posts: 1" ... hmmph
Actually I was wondering the same thing, that post was most confusing.. :)
Quote from: Skal Tura on September 05, 2005, 11:13:07 AM
resurgence: the question remains: are they reliable? I do know of that host probably, 2 years contract right?
realiable so far ;) great tech support :)
i don't know about a contract though. i should look into that.
and oh yeah, reading through here, i saw bloc asked which host is it and i didn't answer (sorry! :) )
it's http://www.bluehost.com
Well, currently, I am in the market for a new hosting company also. I also went with a bargain basement host and am having nothing but problems with uptime. I wouldn't be surprised if we are at 80% uptime this month alone. I did try to cut corners in costs when initially setting up my site but now it can't go on.
The customer service is good with the hosting company itself but then they have to go to a server farm, EV1 to get anything done and for some reason, they aren't very responsive to our issues on our server.
I have been looking at www.Godaddy.com and they seem extremely reasonable plus, I called them up and spoke to a human being, (yeah, a living breathing homo sapiens) who said getting my site transferred wouldn't be a problem at all.
Also talked to skhilled about this briefly as we are both on the same server with the problems and he suggest to go with www.uni-hosting.com as they are run by SMF people.
Great thread though everyone and lots of excellent insight. Don't forget to heed Skal Tura's advice also. Don't sell yourself short when choosing a hosting company. Pay the 2-3 dollars a month more and save yourself a lot of headaches. I can now speak from experience.