Hi all. We are new here! I'm curious, what are you paying for your web hosting services? We have been paying $29.95 per month for nearly 2 years now, and just found a service called MySiteSpace.com for $3.95 per month and it appears to have the exact same things.

Are we getting taken to the cleaners or if I signup with MySiteSpace.com will I regret it?

Does anyone know of them or use them?

Thanks!

Never heard of MySiteSpace.com - but don't feel so bad... We were paying $300 per month for our web hosting! (it was for 3 company sites).

We actually recently moved to a new host, CIHosting who we found through a very neat site called HostChart.com - www.hostchart.com - it lets you compare everything about hosting. We now only pay $59 per month and the service has been great!

I use bluemonkey.com - it costs 15.95 per month and Duane is awesome. He has the best support and he will personally answer any questions you have or any help you may need.

I know a few companies who use him and they enjoy the service.

Thanks for the tips. I'll visit bluemonkey.com as well and ask for Duane .

Wow - that www.hostchart.com web site is really neat. I never had any idea there were so many web hosting provider companies. I found out our "local" hosting company is really in South Dakota!!!

I'll be an expert on the subject in tomorrow's tech meeting!

Thanks for the replies.

iNNERHOST is also a very professional hosting company. I have several websites hosted with iNNERHOST. Their address is www.innerhost.com

-Awais

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Visit http://www.webstrikesolutions.com Hosting for first year: $30.00; after that $8.00 per month. My site is hosted with them: http://www.gnade.com is hosted there. -- Gerhard

Here's a thought. If you there are a group of you in the office, and one person is somewhat technically-savvy, everyone can pool their resources to rent a dedicated server. That way, the combined monthly can be as low as $150 - $200 (or so, depending on other things) and you can literally have hundreds of new domains without paying anything extra each month.
The overwhelming factor in a web host cost for a dedicated server is bandwidth, but these tend to be low for real estate businesses.

In my case, I have a lot of other Internet-related businesses, and whenever I need a new domain for myself or a friend, I just drop one in overnight and don't have to pay anything extra per month.

That way, I have over 30 real estate websites and don't pay anything extra each month since my servers are fixed costs, for the most part.

HTH. Good luck!

try www.webhost4life.com I think that's the name...very inexpensive.

Taylor

Hosting is getting cheaper and cheaper by the month, a result of the overcapacity from the .com boom. If you're talking about generic hosting, reasonable commercial hosting is available for as little as $10 a month. Even YAHOO is in the game now, starting at around $12. $3.95 is pretty cheap, though... just read the fine print...

Because of the lower hosting prices of today, many companies (like mine!) are bundling hosting along with other services. We have just launched a new site along these lines specifically for real estate:
http://www.showcasere.com

ShowCase provides hosting along with real-estate specific functionality. As another reader mentioned, it is cheaper to combine many sites in a single dedicated server to share the costs... we set up the server, host it, manage it, and customers don't have to know a thing about the net. They can edit the web pages, add listings, and manage clients all online with no develoment charges. We actually offer FREE 'basic' hosting, as we are hoping customer migrate to the 'upgraded' plans as they need them.

Alan

I have been using www.creativeopolis.com for a long time, and for £6 per month (about $9 american) they offer 100 MB, 20 emails and ftp etc. They are based in England with servers in the US. Their support people are second to none. I like the control panel interface and is extremely thorough for either new or experienced.

Well recommended!

if you are looking at webhosting, makesure they ooffer the DNS server as well. what this is is a server that when a person types in your URL, it directs it to the server that your page is on. IE the "123.345.67:4546" number that your page is actualy stored on. many of the deal sites we have found dont mention this until after you sign and you are forced to shell out another $15 a month for a dns server. Buyer Beware!

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The problem with most web hosting deals is that they are offered as part of a package by Internet Service Providers. Look for "hosting only" companies such as webstrikesolutions.com. They charge $30.00 for the first year as a set-up fee and NO other charges for the first year! Subsequent years are $8.00(!) per month. That's with 100 megabytes of space and multiple email addresses. -- Gerhard http://www.gnade.com

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