Killercanary said:
WOW Paul. That's crazy. Do you get charged if you exceed a certain amoutn of bandwidth? My buddy just started his own company for webhosting and he told me for $15 a month I get 150MB of storage and unlimited bandwidth, plus $20/yr to register the domain name. Does that right? A buddy told me yesterday that he only pays $50/year for his website and he has 50mb of storage.
First off.... don't pay $20 a year for a domain.
www.aplus.net - until October 15th you can get your domain for $5.95 - normal rate is $7.95 a year. You just login and point the domain to your server.
Second... I've outgrown 4 hosts in 2 years mainly due to 100mphclub.com. I have a reseller package just like your friend and offer hosting in a round about way, I'm a freelance designer and I usually only host the sites I build, so I'm not really into it for the hosting. Although I do on occasion sell a plan to a friend since it costs me nothing to add a website. It cuts into my total package limits and as my "needs" grow, then I go up to the next "limit" package and pay more per month.
Personally, I will NEVER buy from an UNLIMITED bandwidth company again. Learned my lesson the hard way. As mentioned I had ONE video use 33gig of bandwidth in 20 days not counting all my other clients.
Imagine being hosted on an UNLIMITED server with 40+ other Hosting company's that are also resellers and sell UNLIMITED bandwidth to their 200+ customers that they EACH have. Factor in the odds that at any given time ANY of those 200+ sites (times 40+ companies) could have a few sites with some good videos that are popular. You've got yourself one hell of a traffic jam and poorly running server.
It really depends on where you want to go with the site, it's always nice to have someone that can help you along, but if you are looking for advice, don't get too excited about anything that says unlimited. You get what you pay for.
Now if he meant "virtually" unlimited, like I say to some of my clients that's another thing. For my uncle's lawfirm that just has a "brochure" type site, he's got way more storage and bandwidth than he could ever possibly need. It's so much more than he needs that it's virtually unlimited.
I can host it for you if you want. PM me if your interested.
all i get is "unable to locate file."
