OK, in case you didn’t know I’ve been paying for a virtual server through dreamhost, and generally been happy except for now worrying I make enough to pay the MONTHLY hosting bill (yes it was nice to forget about it till yearly). So I started looking around to see who is offering what, and truthfully. I DID NOT REALIZE… how many hosting companies there are out there. I swear it used to be fewer. Ane even taking and doing teh service vs. money spent it seems a lot of hosters are either matching prices or it really does all cost pretty much the same.
Now Dreamhost starts at $5.95 a month.. and that does sound freaking cheap. But I ran across a lot of “cheap web hosting” which has hosting at almost half the cost. And what they provide for that little is more then what I used to pay 5, 6 or almost 10 times as much for years before, For example one hoster I had never heard before Hosting Metro is offering for $3.95:
• 10 GB TRANSFER
• 500 MB STORAGE
• 50 Email
• 10 MYSQL DB
• PHP, MYSQL
That seriously is is all one needs to host most basic sites. Does that mean I’ll be moving? No, not to them. There are SO many other issues my current hoster offers (number of doamins needing hosting, packages available, support). Plus, the amount of wear I was taxing the stock Dreamhost account. (which is why this is now running on a private server with a private IP… Oh and now with SSL). But seriously… my brother in law with the single low traffic site?…
Oh and to go back to the point, am I smoking something, or are a lot of hosters reselling… or somehow hitting the exact same price points in their costs/markup/prices.
