Cheap Small Business Web Hosting

has anybody used ix Web Hosting / Yahoo Small Business...?
Is it better or worse than Yahoo? They're both pretty much the same but ixWH is cheaper and you don't have a 3 month contract Help please :)

Yahoo might be better because it is bigger and reliable company. Personally, I would like to suggest following webhosting which I use, they are excellent. Hostmonster http://www.hostmonster.com/track/ryukenden/ They offer hosting of "unlimited domains" and you will get massive webspace of 1500000 MB (1500 GB ). They only charge $5.95/month and they offer "a free Domain Name" and installing service called "Fantastico". By using Fantastico, you could create own forum, photo gallery, shopping cart (e-commerce),your own auction site and your own blogs within few seconds. They also offer "Free Website Builder" as well. Visit the site to check details. Hostmonster http://www.hostmonster.com/track/ryukenden/ More the list of BEST WEB HOSTING sites visit http://www.nicewebhosts.com

Need help with starting a web hosting!?
I have little knowledge about web hosting but would like to start one as soon as possible. At the moment, I need it for school projects, self-practice, and personal use and I'm also thinking about small business later. There are plenty to choose from but I'm looking for these ideals: - domain name - cheap web hosting servers (with FTP upload, and all that stuff) - PHP MySQL database - reliable customer support I'm in the middle of learning PHP and MySQL, but not sure if these providers offer it too. GoDaddy seems to the best choice at the moment but I want to ensure if they have everything I need. Or maybe someone here know a better provider. Thanks.

http://www.hostmonsterplus.com http://www.hostmonsterplus.com would be the best. It supports PHP, MySQL, and almost anything you'll need. It comes with a free domain name... ex: whateveryouwant.com It has unlimited storage and bandwidth. You can also add an unlimited amount of domain names. So with one account you can have many different .com websites. I have 6 right now. Only $5.95 per month. (You can also store you photos etc on there as much as you want as long as there's nothing illegal) I've been using them for 3 years and I'll give them my thumbs up.

Web Hosting in Fife?
I have to try and create a small website for a friends business and the hosting has to be in Fife, I need a cheap starter package and I was wondering if anybody could give me some good business URLs for them. Thanks, David

Fife? That's a town? Why does it have to be there? It doesn't matter where you are living, you can get hosting from anywhere. www.freewebs.com www.freehostia.com www.sycrex.com www.vlexo.com www.freewebtown.com :) They are some free hosts.

I want to set up a website for my very small business, spending the least amount of money.?
I have created a website and from what I can understand, I need a domain name and web hosting service??? Is this correct and does anyone know a good and free/cheap one??? please help, I don't really know what I am doing!!! Thanks

Yes, you are correct. You need a domain name and a web host. I would personally stay away from a free web host. You will not get the traffic that you want from a free site. Most hosts will register your domain name for you. I suggest that you take a look at several options. When selecting a web host first compare feature-by-feature then dollar-for-dollar. This will ensure that you get the best fit and the most for your money. I did just that and found a web host that assists those who are beginners or experts. You can look at them as one of your options at http://www.tobuildyour.com BEST WISHES!

Inexpensive but reliable web host...does it exist?
I have 2 small business websites at the moment...I pay $30 a year for each. They both started out with 50MB storage & 1000MB transfer. On one of them, I bought 50MB more storage. Domain was/is free. However, I am constantly having problems with them. The websites will go down during peak hours for no reason, mail service is sporadic, I have deleted 3/4 of my website because they say I keep going over my limit...this is on the 100MB one. I feel like I should look for a new one, but I really can't spend much more than $60 total a year for the two together. I know you can get multiple domains now under some hosting plans, but by the time you pay for the extra domains, it's not cheap anymore. Where can I find something reasonable? Having all the bells & whistles is not a priority, but would be nice.

I use webhostingbuzz.com - it's reliable, and for $3/month you get 30GB space and 1000GB transfer/month. That's a lot better than your current one! What's more, you can host multiple domains on the one hosting account. (Remember, domains themselves should only cost you $9 - e.g. at namecheap.com). So, if there's enough space on that one account, you should only have to pay $36/year or $54 if you register for two years. I've been with WHB for a while now, and they seem to be for real. Good luck!!

How can I build a server that will handle many websites on a small budget?
I want in depth instructions, what I'm thinking is using this ancient '98 dell xps with a 6 gig hard drive, possibly more. I will use some version of Linux built for servers, probably Ubuntu 8.04 or BSD, due to security reasons, remember most people spy through windows. 128 Megs of RAM and a basic setup other than that, 1 CD drive 1 floppy, 2 USB ports a couple serial ports and, of course, an Ethernet port. What exactly do I need to do to make it into a good web server. I'll sell server space for basic HTML sites, so I may upgrade it to a cheap 80GB hard drive, and if it turns into a good business, I may just daisy chain loads of hard drives and become the first person I know to have a terabyte of space. would it be possible to host multiple websites from one server? I have cable internet with a wired network. like I said, I REALLY NEED IN DEPTH INSTRUCTIONS Ok, I now have 46GB of space to work with and would 3 ethernet ports be enough? That's my maximum. I MAY add some ram If I could find it, probably around an extra 192 MB of ram if I can find it, as for OS, I've used Damn small before on a virtual machine, and could you use it as a web server, remember, I now have an extra 40 gig hard drive to work with.

Skip desktop distros with only 128 megs of RAM. I'd recommend possibly CentOS haven't tried it on a machine with that little amount of RAM before. Quite probably your going to want to actually get your hands dirty with the kernel. BSD is acceptable but you'll find the UI to be quite primitive even on the command line. Windoze no way you run anything close to a real web server on that little amount of RAM. You might get XP to boot up but the second you add MySQL and Apache it'll crater on you. You'll want a kernel minus everything you are not using. The Linux kernel is pretty lean as it is but if your hosting multiple sites on that small amount of RAM you want the kernel as lean as possible. Don't install X at all on that machine and 6 gigs will be plenty of space as long as you watch your logs and nobody is doing massively DB intense web sites. HTML code and back end scrips like PHP and such take up only tiny amounts of space. You could have thousands of web sites hosted on there as long as they don't have large image files and such. I will give you the basics, each of these steps you'll have to look up separately as there is not enough space to even attempt to walk you through it and it would take some time. Most of the complications are the low amount of RAM on your machine. When partitioning create a separate partition for your web and DB. The reason you do this is that if the logs fill up the entire partition only your web server and DB become cranky not the whole machine. If you fill up the root partition you can only log in as root as you'll not be able to write tmp files and other stuff until you clear some space on the drive. I suggest this partitioning scheme. / 4 gigs swap partition 256 megs /webdb the rest of your free space. When you install Apache and MySQL edit the configurations to use /webdb for logs and put your www root on the webdb partition as well. The other reasons for this partitioning scheme is that it makes it easy for backups and disk quotas. Enable disk quotas for that partition. You may also want to make it an LVM partition. That way if you add a second drive you don't have to do anything but partition the new drive as LVM and add it to the logical group and your 2 gig webdb partion becomes whatever size partition you added plus the origional 2 gigs. Using LVM a partition can span drives. Don't use LVM for /. If theres a problem you want / to be a normal ext3 partition. You'll want to install PHP. With MySQL CHANGE THE DEFAULT ADMIN PASSWORD. Next thing after you get all that installed is you'll want to turn any unnecessary service off. If your not susing it turn it off. By not running X you'll already have a pretty lean machine going but every byte counts. When it comes to separate websites your going to need to create a user for each of those sites. It is preferabl for security purposes to force them to SSH in rather than using FTP but that is probably not practical for a commercial situation like what you are talking about. You'll need to configure your FTP server in that case. There are several good ones for Linux. Check out the features the turn around on any security issues and set it up. You'll also want to write a quick bash script for creating new web sites that creates the user assigns a random password. creates the dirs for their use and modifies the apache configuration files to add their site. Your going to want to throttle their bandwidth based on usage. There are some good tools for that. If you check the Apache documentation on throttling bandwidth you can find some help there. You can host hundreds of web sites from the same machine. Apache is very good at multiple websites. There are some tools that make configuration of such sites easier. You can also hand edit the Apache cfg files to accomplish the same thing. More so you can assign limits to how much disk space they may use, how much bandwidth per month they may use and so on. If your machine was built in 98 it probably has a 10 base T ethernet card in it. If so you need to upgrade that to at least a 10/100. It'll remove a possible performance bottleneck. Put in a gigabit card if you have a gigabit switch even if your connection isn't that fast. With that particular machine no your not going to have a terrabyte of data. The IDE drives it supports are not that big. I've got an older Dell built around 2002 and it doesn't even support EIDE. When the drive in it failed I had to go to Dell to get a non-EIDE drive. You can probably pick up a cheap IDE raid card and older IDE drives from a swap meet or something like that. The IDE drives you buy off the shelf today likely will not work in that machine. I tried to put a 200 gig drive in my Dell and the BIOS barfed on it. I have almost 3 terrabytes scattered between my machines. However I use it mostly for recording my own music which is very disk space intensive. I think I'm out of room in fact

Starting a used car website?
I would like to start a website for my small used car business. I am good with computers and fluent with HTML, although I also use frontpage as a crutch. Does anyone know where I can find a place to host my website. Also, I would need to be able to come up with my own web address. Cheaper the better for now, and if they specialize in small businesses that would be even better! Thanks.

I run a web services site that might fit your needs. Please visit http://www.mxdwebservice.com and review our plans. We offer plans starting at 5GB of web space and 100GB of traffic and 1 free domain name for $69.24/year...that is less than $6/month. Currently, our largest plan consists of 25GB of web space with 300GB of traffic. Every plan includes one free domain name. All plans come with a large complement of free scripts and tools, designed to help you build and maintain a professional-looking web site; including tools like Joomla! & PHPNuke (content management systems), osCommerce (a shopping cart/billing system) and more than 20 other similar free tools! Like any good web host we offer our clients 24/7 customer support, including a trouble ticket system, live chat and phone/email support. In addition, we also offer a complete library of video tutorials to help guide you visually through a large variety of possible questions about running and maintaining your web space. Nothings better than seeing how it's done step by step! Thats not all! You will also find a growing library of articles designed to help guide and inform you in running a web business. The entire purpose of our site is to provide users with tools for web business. I would suggest that you visit our site as there is a wealth of free information available and more details about the hosting plans we offer. As with any client, I welcome any question you may have while designing a web site on your own, regardless of the tool you decide to use while building it. I try very hard to provide as much as possible for each client and I will work as hard for you. Thank you for your time and I hope to have helped you in some way. :)