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Hi everyone,
I am sorry for possible offtopic, but I need your help in find new web hosting provider as soon as possible, because my current host (bluehost.com) is kicking me off, they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB (maybe they do not like that?)

Anyway, what would be your recommendations for getting reliable web hosting? Where are you hosting your websites? Are you happy with your providers?

I am now checking http://www.hosting24.com/ - offer looks very nice, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".

What do you think about it? Maybe things have changed in last 4 years? With my current provider I get only 2GB of disk space for $10 per month..
Any ideas and suggestions are much appreciated.
 
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unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth is just an advertising gimmick. even bluehost's packages are oversold, and companies like with these low priced - high limit "deals" will just kick you off (like bluehost did).

what sort of programs / scripts are you running? anything that's really resource-hogging?
 
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I would rather avoid unlimited offerings because it is 95% overselling.

Instead of , I would recommend you looking up offerings of hqhost.net. I know this company is reliable and prices are not very high - might be interesting for you
 
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If you have 200 uniques per day and are using too many server resources, there is probably a fundamental problem with your site.
When I was a new way back when, I was kicked off of my first host. I ran a game, and thought the code was decent.

However, with a giant ego and limited knowledge of php/mySQL, I realize now my code and structure was just terrible.

If you're running your own code, have an experienced friend take a look at it. My biggest problem was not using mySQL indexes. Once I figured that out, my code ran about 10x faster.

If you're running a script, still have someone check it out. I find people on my server running vBulletin have huge mySQL overhead. They just don't clear it out, and it ends up using upwards of 10MB RAM just for the hell of it.

What is using your disk space? If it's images, thats probably fine. However, if it is a database, that would really be an issue. I found one guy on shared hosting ($8/m) was using about a gig of space in mySQL data alone. The worst part was the 150+mb of RAM he was using with the mySQL indexes :) - He was very nice about it and kindly moved to a larger package.

After this long rambling post, I'll conclude by saying when I was kicked off of my first host, I was convinced they we just greedy and didn't know anything.
It took me awhile to realize it was Me that didn't know anything.

As for a host, check in the Web Hosting Offers forum. Check out the people that post for any feedback that might be in their profile.


Bruce
 
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You have ordinary needs in web hosting and I think that you have nothing to worry about mate ;)
 
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stay away from every host that says "unlimited webspace, unlimited data transfer"
i would rather like unmetered but for that price of U.S.$4.95 seems like they're hiding something from you and "too good to be true"

why not request here?
http://www.namepros.com/web-hosting-requests/
post your requirements
 
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I know this skeptical attitude about unmetered, but also read that those who tried to use TBs of bandwidth and disk space in Hostgator.com plans managed to use the resources they were offered in plans.
Then even if a company offers unmitetered disk space and bandwidth, they usually elaborate on this in the Unmetered Disk Space and Bandwidth Policy as Webhostgiant.com does and enumerate all the types of sites which are not covered by the Unmetered Policy.
I think unmetered makes sense if you know all the details about it.
 
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Ya avoid the unlimited web hosting gimmicks. However, 500GB of disk space for $5/m is the same thing as unlimited. You will get the boot before you use even 50GB. And do you actually need 500GB anyway? I bet theres only a few sites on the internet that use anything close to that
 
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I would avoid that webhost. Stick with someone reputable like hostgator or one of many of the companies that are represented on this forum. Some offer free hosting in exchange for posts on their forum or sometimes just out of pure interest/generosity.
 
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