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Geocitie's sites are Down alot of the time
Yeah, I know...that's one reason why we didn't like Geocities. It kept saying our bandwidth was expired and we would have to wait an hour before seeing the site again - for the life of me I can't understand why. O.o
Yeah, the 30 GB is the amount of stuff can be downloaded from your site during the month. Often times, if you go over they will charge you a ridiculous amount per GB, so that is an important feature to watch. How many people are going to be downloading the movies? Are they just for family and friends? If so you can get away with less bandwidth (especially if you keep the movies small), but it doesn't seem worth it, since for a few bucks a month more you can get a lot more bandwidth.
Godaddy's deluxe plan has pretty good numbers for $9.95 a month:
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/shared.asp?se=%2B&ci=132
http://www.1and1.com/ has a $4.99/mo plan, but it only has 25GB of transfer per month.
Hopefully someone who has shopped for hosting more recently that I has some better suggestions.
Also, make sure to do a google search on a given hosting company before signing up with them. Make sure there aren't thousands of angry customers out there complaining about their service...
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Oh, I recommend FileBurst
above all hosting services. I use it to host ThinkTanks Radio site and archives, as well, Pangea Software uses FileBurst for their awesome game downloads. B) There's a one time $5 set-up fee, and then it's only $1
per Gigabyte of bandwidth!!! And only $2
for every additional 100 MB of disk space (The package comes with 100MB free space)! It's also very reliable and amazingly fast! XD
You get a free sub-domain name, such as "spunky.fileburst.com"!
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We use NameCheap to puchase our domain, then used Lunarpages for the server. It works really well and we haven't had any downtime yet.
@Chilled
Cool - I'll try it with the "boss" (my dad).
@Racer
Can you provide links?
Yeah, I'd like that. I personally think that if I host my own site, it'll be http://www.freewebs.com because they are 100% free.
I use http://www.ixwebhosting.com/ . In the 6 months that we have been with them no problems, and very good customer support.
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I need a website to host pictures, movies, etc for my family's trip to France, and no free website has so far had enough space to store all of our stuff. We've tried Freewebs, Geocities, DotTK, whatever - none of them are enough. So now I'm asking you guys...do you have any recommendations for a hosting site at a low price?
The lowest one I could find would be Fatcow - $8.99 a month with $99 due at sign-up. Electric Kitten comes in at a close second, but it doesn't have enough features for our liking. Geocities comes in at 3rd with $14.95 per month for their lowest hosting fee.
Anyone else have any other options? Not that the choices above are bad, we just want to see if there are any other options before we go and buy a website of our own.
BTW...Fatcow says it has 30 GB of Monthly Data Transfer. What does that mean? Is that how much data goes through their network monthly?
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