Web Hosting Information
DOX, dox@sdf.org
2012 07 12, v1.00
To set up a web page one generally has to buy a virtual machine or buy space on a shared web host. Providing those web hosting servers to the public is a multimillion dollar business.
A related business is evaluating the web hosting industry. The dirty little secrete is that the evaluations are not always just evaluations. Sometimes they are advertisements disguised as evaluations.
To try and avoid confussion I am going to relate my experiances with the web hosting industry.
For years I used a company called "Lunar-pages" and was relatively happy with their performance. However, they sold out to a larger company in 2011 and I became dissatisfied. At that time I started searching for a new web hosting company.
I am web proficent so the thrust of my search was for inexpensive, no or low support hosting companys. This is not as easy as it was a few years ago when I went through the same process. I think the reason for this is that most web hosting companies offer virtual machines and most people that are sophisticated enough to look for a no support solution usually just run their own virtual server. Consequently it is difficult to fine a shared host that has SSH shell support. My search started with no support web hosting and went to minimal or limited support web hosting and was limited to hosting companies that had servers in the U.S. I then went on to 1 dollar a month and free web host still looking for low or not support.
One factor I did not look at was domain name registration. I have a domain name registration site and assume that you have one too. Also, the following comparison only includes comparison of the mid-rang plan on each Web server. This usually has over a 10Gb Disk Space and 100MG bandwidth, over 10 sub-domains and 10 add on domains
Here is what I found.
- www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com
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12 per year per website, one plan, no support, no commerce websites.
- www.cotse.net
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$72.00 per year, also get an email address and ssh tunneling
- www.3ix.org
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$55 per year, 5 web sites. I have used this web host before and it
lived up to everything it said it would. You do need another email
solution because the email here did not work well.
- webhost.pro
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$36 pre year. looks ok, nothing specal
- www.parcomweb.com
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$42.00 per year, standard feature
- www.expertwebhost.net
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$32.00. limited email and web pages.
- www.hostbandit.com
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one dollar a month, I thought this was interesting but it has some bad
reviews on the net.
- www.lunarpages.com
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$107.00 per year. fairly good host, shell account available. I use
this host now.
- www.eleven2.com
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$72.00 per year, Live Support
- http://www.justhost.com/
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the pretty girl on the front.
- www.000webhost.com
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$5.00 hosting w/shell account.
- www.mochahost.com
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2.50 for unlimited
- www.webhosting.net
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not much support, neat web site. expensive $165.00 per year limited
space and web sites.
- www.digitalhost.com
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$75.00 per year, fairly standard features
- www.AVAhost.net
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slow loading, $60.00 year, standard features
- www.1and1.com
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slow loading, $84.00 year, standard features
- www.NetMagics.com
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$22.00 per year, limited disk space and bandwidth.
- www.titb.biz
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email support only. Mid Plan about $50.00 year. No support
option. Hosted in Cambodia.
- www.nametyper.com
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Fairly Standard, 5 Euros per month, 10G space, 5 domains.
dollar hosting
- www.dollarwebhoster.com
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$1.00 plan available, $32 per year, 20 websites limited resources.
- www.1dollar-webhosting.com
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medium plan is $1.00 per month
- www.hostbig.com
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loads slow, has the pretty girl on the front page, shell accessible
for $55.00 per year
- www.linkalone.com
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hosting.html $3.00 per month. Something about this one I do not like.
- www.pachosting.com.hk
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not in hong kong
- www.amcommit.com
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Basic package $15.00 standard package
- thehostbusters.com
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basic web serices $4.00 per month
Private Browsing
- anonymizer Private browsing for about $80.00 per year
- Metro Pipe Private browsing and tunneling for $60 to $100 per year
- Guardster Secure browsing for about $70.00 per year
- The cloak Secure browsing price unknown
Shell Accounts
- sdf.org
- grex.org
- http://www.nyx.net
- arbornet.org
- shellum.org (off line)
- fstssh.com (looke out of biz)
- shelltor.com (tor shell)
- blinkenshell.org (try)
- http://www.geekshells.org
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- http://www.reverse.net (looks to try)
- https://www.xshellz.com (ok)
- cluenet.org
combo accounts
http://www.auroralink.net (good)
http://kewlshells.com (like it)
http://www.ispeeds.net (good)
http://www.ispeedtelecom.com/
shelltor.com
www.spexhost.com/