Best place to host a website

This has probably been discussed over and over here, but times change, services change, and so do companies, so here goes. I am looking for some opinions on the best place to host a website. I do plan to register a domain, and ultimately will offer products for sale. A few of the things I’m looking for are

Best price
Decent amount of space and bandwidth
I want a forum/message board, similar to this one, so something that could host phpBB or CIG. An installer for these would be an added benefit.
An SSL Certificate shared or otherwise would be nice.
Built in FTP so I do not have to download another program would be real nice
POP mailboxes and perhaps shopping cart as well.
Maybe the ability to offer blog space to some of my visitors

Anyone have any favorites that might fit the bill?

Are you lookin' for an offshore host or a regular host in the US or something ?
Because i know a couple of reliable offshore hosts...
Also what do you mean by decent amount ? how much is that ? 1GB 30GB or what ?
Are you gonna host nulled scripts or not ?

Thanks for responding. I would prefer hosting US. I guess "decent" is a little vague and subjective, so I'd say 2-4 gig (I think). Really do not need a huge site yet.

Also, my html skills are a bit dated so something the easier the better. Something that would let me pay monthly or quarterly would be nice as well.

Well if you want some US based Hosts i could advice those:

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DiskSpace ENDLESS, free
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Setup NO SETP FEE
Price (monthly) $9.97 (1mo. term)
$8.97 (3mo. term)
$7.97 (6mo. term)
$6.97 (12mo. term)
$5.97 (24mo. term)
$4.97 (36mo. term)

URL: http://www.jaguarpc.com/web-hosting/


I know a couple of others but i heard good things about that jaguarpc one....
But make sure what you will be hosting is 100% legal ;)

Thanks $SnoopDo2G$, I'll take a look at it.

They actually look pretty good. A bit more expensive than some I have looked at but not all that much.

Anyone have an opinion of Fat Cow or Just Host?

There's also godaddy.com. As far as I know ishohunt uses it. Or maybe just domain registration. w/e.

You ever use godaddy? If so have an opinion? Thanks

No, sorry coldnorth.
try

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irc://irc.servercentral.net/webhosting

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http://www.bighosters.com/

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try this dude.

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http://www.justhost.com/

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Thanks

I was wondering if anyone knows this following web host or has had any experience with them.

http://www.000webhost.com/


Also, any recommendations for the cheapest, easiest way to register a new domain name?

OVH is very safe. I use for seedboxes !

Thanks Hombre. How's the service? decent?

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Originally Posted by NesteaZen

There's also godaddy.com. As far as I know ishohunt uses it. Or maybe just domain registration. w/e.

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Isohunt doesn't use godaddy. Theres pictures of their big servers on the web. Pretty interesting I'll find the pictures and post them here.

Yes, I thought so, but you never know. I've just whoised it and funny enough it uses godaddy as registrar and he also uses domainsbyproxy.com. So.. sorry.
I once read/heard isohunt and godaddy in one sentence so I assumed, but yes I know it would be stupid for the content they have.

coldnorth
Just come back to tell us what you've chosen and maybe post the website. Little traffic boost ;).

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and ultimately will offer products for sale

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Some shop or will you act as a host for various companies (designer)?

Thanks guys.

I used Go Daddy to register the domain and might just host it there for the time being. I'll post the url when it is up. My html skills are a bit dated so I might be back here asking advice.

Thanks again to everyone who responded. Love this site.

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Originally Posted by coldnorth

Thanks guys.

I used Go Daddy to register the domain and might just host it there for the time being. I'll post the url when it is up. My html skills are a bit dated so I might be back here asking advice.

Thanks again to everyone who responded. Love this site.

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I have used Godaddy in the past, and have not had any problems with them. Full up time and friendly support, though their prices could have been a tiny bit better. Still, nice deal.

Thanks everyone for all of your help. I have the site up and running, though there are still a few more things to work out. The forum has been installed and I loaded the pages with the updated e-mail and forum links but for some reason they are not appearing yet.

Go Daddy's price is good and they have a lot of nice features but their site is a bit awkward to navigate, especially for someone who has not put up a web page in years, and those were all sub-domains.

With my work schedule it might be a few days before I get everything working right but if anyone wants to take a look the url is

www.aneurysmsupport.com

I'd be real interested in hearing any opinions, criticisms, or advice.

Thanks again

Just Host is horrible. Stay away from them. They charge you a rather expensive setup fee.

Instead, you should go with DreamHost or HostGator. What about Softlayer and Singlehop? :)

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Originally Posted by Slickerey

Just Host is horrible. Stay away from them. They charge you a rather expensive setup fee.

Instead, you should go with DreamHost or HostGator. What about Softlayer and Singlehop? :)

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Thanks Slickerey. I have this one up and running on Go Daddy. Will take a look at your suggestions for the next one.

Nice work you've done with the site but then begins the hard task of actually putting it out there so that everyone knows it exists.
I know there are how tos for turning up among the first in google searches but am unfamiliar with the specifics.

check out http://avaxhome.ws and see if you can find any useful material as regards that.

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Nice work you've done with the site but then begins the hard task of actually putting it out there so that everyone knows it exists.
I know there are how tos for turning up among the first in google searches but am unfamiliar with the specifics.

check out http://avaxhome.ws and see if you can find any useful material as regards that.

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Thanks sez. Yes, that can often be the hardest part. A few years back I use to have pretty good luck with that, but it was much simpler then. Just make sure that you had meta tags and that the first part of the text contained the key words. Much more difficult now I hear. I used Go Daddy's web site analyzer and it picked out a few things I need to work on.

Thanks for the link sez, there might be some material there I can use.

Anyone have any hints, suggestions, or ideas for building some traffic and forum membership?

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Originally Posted by coldnorth

Thanks for the link sez, there might be some material there I can use.

Anyone have any hints, suggestions, or ideas for building some traffic and forum membership?

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There were some search engine optimization tips that I saw in one of the guides on here

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-gui...fresp3kz-82765

Thanks Slim I'll take a look. I'm a bit concerned about that right now as I have not been indexed yet by the search engines. I know that can take a while but I have noticed that some other pages, postings on other forum, etc since I put the page up have been listed.

Dunno what you did but your site appears 1st page on google with aneurysm support as the key words.
I've since been acquainted with this SE0 guy and he guarantees top 3 with any key words(I doubted him) but I saw him do it.If you are still interested,let me know and I'll get you in contact with him.

Yep, but that is the only page in which I am appearing on page one, and even within the top five. So yep, I'd be interested in talking with this guy.

I use to be pretty good at getting pages list in the first page, but things have changed a bit over the years.