Web Hosting: anything cheaper than webhost4life? | The Coffeehouse

Red5
Systems Manager Curmudgen

WebHost4Life wants $177 USD for me to continue another year with them for a website.

The website is just a simple asp.net site.

Can anyone recommend a cheaper option/provider? I just need asp.net 2.0, SQL server not required.

thanks in advance

MasterPie
I'm white because I smelt an onion

W3bbo offers good, fairly cheap hosting (using him for my personal site).

Only negative so far is that he doesn't yet have a frontend for his services, which doesn't really matter as you can just email him or IM him for support.

DiRtY
Chea

Check out Best Damn Web Hosts, they have some great reviews of the best web hosts and discounts for hosting providers.

http://www.bestdamnwebhosts.com/

I personally use FatCow, got a nice discount from Best Damn Web Hosts for $44 per year.

sushovande
Smiley Face Sharp

I use http://www.freewha.com/, but they are PHP/MySQL only. They charge $1 per month.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to MasterPie

#Aug 16th @ 12:27 PM

I can assure everyone that Vivek here is not a plant or an alternative identity of mine. I offer out space on my colocated servers (WS2008) because I need a way for my expensive hobbies to pay for themselves.

May28th2018
May 28th, 2018

Godaddy offers ASP.net for ~$4.99 a month, and you get free Facebook, MS Adcenter and Google Adwords credit for signing up.

http://www.godaddy.com/Hosting/web-hosting.aspx?ci=8971#details

May28th2018
May 28th, 2018

If you can live with using Java or Python with Google App Engine and are handy with Eclipse, http://Appspot.com is free for moderate usage.

Here is some more information.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html

App engine can host simple HTML/XHTML files with CSS or you can host a full blown web 2.0 application with servlet powered AJAX, then scale it as large as you like with no extra work. Just my 2 cents.

"You can serve your app from your own domain name (such as http://www.example.com/) using Google Apps. Or, you can serve your app using a free name on the appspot.com domain. You can share your application with the world, or limit access to members of your organization."

They also offer free SVN services on code.google.com.

Red5
Systems Manager Curmudgen

In reply to May28th2018

#Aug 16th @ 6:39 PM

Thanks everyone.

sushovande
Smiley Face Sharp

In reply to Red5

#Aug 17th @ 1:31 PM

Do post back with the solution you chose.

MasterPie
I'm white because I smelt an onion

In reply to May28th2018

#Aug 16th @ 6:13 PM

Never tried GoDaddy, so I can't tell you if it's good or not.

But, in terms of value, W3bbo's cheapest plan around $5/month comes with SQLServer (if Red5 were to require it later on).

GoDaddy's $5/month hosting doesn't seem to come with it.

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In reply to MasterPie

#Aug 17th @ 4:36 PM

GoDaddy says it does. Doesn't say which version, though (just "MS SQL"; doesn't specify if it's 2005 or 2008).

Red5
Systems Manager Curmudgen

In reply to sushovande

#Aug 17th @ 2:09 PM

I went with GoDaddy today.

It's just for a brochure type website, so $5 a month is just fine for me.

If they suck the this next year, W3bbo is next in line Smiley

May28th2018
May 28th, 2018

In reply to Red5

#Aug 17th @ 6:10 PM

Godaddy is the Wal-mart of hosting on the internet.

While all the web 2.0 companies lost millions Rackspace cranked it up to $15 a share from their IPO

http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chdet=1250560588277&chddm=55800&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NYSE:RAX&ntsp=0

That's part of why Microsoft wants to get in on cloud computing with Azure.

Monetization zones on the internet shift constantly, and companies struggle to catch up. Advertising is down and cloud hosting is up, then companies run over to the hosting corner. X trend pops up and they close down soap box, popfly and run over to the X technology corner. By the time they know they should be running to a corner it's usually far too late.