Web Hosting Companies

What are some web hosting companies that allow system services?
I am a flash developer and I've been using Site5Hosting, which is great, but my contract is FINALLY ending with them and I really need a place that would allow me to install something like Flash Media Server or Smart Fox Server and keep it running, as I'm looking to make real-time games. Does anyone know of a place that would do that, preferrably under $15/mo. Thanks!

Honestly, It is just not worth it to go with any one site without doing your research first. You should consider going to a website like http://www.webhostgumbo.com ... They have an up to date pricing and incentives comparison chart for the top 2008 web hosting companies starting at $3.96 per month with free for life domain names, plus you get $25 back when you choose your web host. Always do your research before you buy. Good luck

Where do companies get those random people posing at computers,for something like a web hosting company?
I wanted to get some random images of people at a computer for my website. I go around to all these business's' and I just want to know where they get these random people posing at a computer smiling?

Some web site templates (even free ones) come with those images included. Check out the first source listed below (about halfway down the page, under WYSIWYG Editors) to find some free ones. Just look in the img or images file for the template, after you download it. Or, you can use stock photos, either free (not a lot of the free ones include people, though) or usually pretty cheap (less than a dollar each.) Check out the second source for some, or you can just search "free stock photos" to find more.

Recommend to me some good web hosting companies?
I have a small personal webpage and I'm unhappy with my current web hosting company (Brinkster). Something free or very cheap would be best. I'd prefer something that doesn't force ads on my pages. Having my own domain name is *not* important. Support for languages such as PHP would be nice, but not necessary. Same goes for allowing me to host media files such as MP3s. thanks everybody so far... mxd, just curious how long you've been in business and about how many customers you have?

If you don't mind file size limitations, there is: atspace.com & 50webs.com that offer free ad-free web hosting Neither support PHP at this time and media files could be stored off-site and hotlinked in. Photobucket recently started hosting both images and videos and allows hotlinking. As for mp3s...you might try Ripway.com but I'm not sure how good they are about their hosting.

How do websites from free web hosting companies fare when it comes to SEO optimization?


Exactly like a website hosted at paid host. Here are the factors that effect ranking of a website in search engines http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-yahoo-msn-ranking-factors_28.html

Approximately how many web hosting companies are there online?
Please provide a source if you find an approximate number. This is mostly out of curiosity. Thanks!

i dont have a sorce, but trust me, there are tons! just try yahoo geocities or live.

What are best web hosting companies?
Where can I find a list of the best web companies? Thanks a Bunch :-) Kali

This comes from hostingincentive as they rank the top 5 web hosting companies on a monthly basis. http://www.hostingincentive.com/top-5-ranking-web-hosts/ 1. Host Gator 2. Blue Host 3. Host Monster 4. Pow Web 5. Host Rocket hope this helps out.

Who do ISPs and Web Hosting companies buy IPs from???
I want to know that from whom the ISPs and Web Hosting companies buy IPs from to connect to the Internet. I mean where is that organization???

Regional Internet Registries Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) are nonprofit corporations established for the purpose of administration and registration of Internet Protocol (IP) address space and Autonomous System (AS) numbers. RIRs also work together on joint projects. A list of all RIRs is provided below with links to lists of countries within each region. There are five RIRs: AfriNIC Africa, portions of the Indian Ocean APNIC Portions of Asia, portions of Oceania ARIN Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States LACNIC Latin America, portions of the Caribbean RIPE NCC Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia http://www.arin.net/community/index.html

Why Do Some Web Hosting Companies Offer 500 and 1000 Different Mailboxes?
I mean like unless you are a major corporation why would this many mailboxes be needed?

Since mailbox comes very cheap in terms of space and bandwith usage.

What are some great web hosting companies???
I'm looking for a company to host my site with that is inexpensive but also has little down time.

I have been using bidtoe.com for a long time, and I have never had a single problem with them. Their cust. support is super quick! I definetly reccomend them.

Has anyone ever heard of these free web hosting companies?
110MB T35 Quotaless What are your thoughts right now I tried both T35 and Quotaless and FTP is way slow. Slower then profusehost or say Angelfire. 110MB I not sure but they seem popular then the others as with the support forms. In general is FTP slow? Like for a 15MB file of Coppermine folder install it takes over 1 hour to FTP it is that normal?

Wow, thats super slow! Once upon a time, 10+ years ago, I tried a free host. Needless to say I have found it in my budget to pay for hosting. If there is a free host that is worthwhile out there, I'd bet money that they would get flooded so quickly that they would slow down too. If you can, spend a few bucks a month. That's what I do. I burned through a lot of hosts before I found the ones (plural) that I use now.